Cisco, worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate has launched its Evolved Services Platform (ESP).
According to the Company, ESP is a comprehensive unified virtualization and orchestration software platform that creates, automates and provisions services in real time, across compute, storage and network functions, to deliver desired business outcomes for applications running across multiple domains.
Residing between the application and Cisco EPN layers of the architecture, the Cisco ESP enables service providers to deliver the right type of experience for each customer need, regardless of how they are connected to the network (e.g., fixed, mobile, Wi-Fi).
Mr. Dare Ogunlade, general manager Cisco, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra-Leone, gave characteristics of the Cisco’s ESP virtualization and orchestration software platform to include, openness.
In other words, Cisco ESP is multi-vendor and based on open standards and incorporating Openstack and Open Daylight (SDN) protocol suite.
He said that the solution is extensible hence it offers the most comprehensive broad set of capabilities with more on the way and spanning across the entire service provider architecture – cloud, video, mobile and fixed – to provide service providers greater means to optimize their networks or create, automate the creation of new services as the business needs dictate.
Ogunlade added that the solution is Elastic as it allows service providers to seamlessly and dynamically scale their existing services while also dramatically accelerating deployment of new services and network functions.
While there are many residential, business, and mobile solutions that can be created from Cisco’s product and architectural innovations, Cisco also announced the availability of the first two modules for deployment.
They are Video and Mobility.
Cisco Videoscape Cloud DVR Solution is cloud-driven video recording with capture and storage in the cloud instead of the end device. Consumers can restart shows, catch up on past programs, and play back digital video recorder-captured content from anywhere, on any screen. For the service provider, it enables new multi-screen offers.
On the other hand, Cisco Virtualized Mobile Internet entails new virtualized mobile services, such as sponsored data, where the content provider pays to deliver data to the user, provide new revenue opportunities for service providers.
Continuing its customer-centric approach, Cisco is also announcing four ways service providers can purchase these business-transformation solutions.
The solutions include Virtual Functions as individual virtual functions may be purchased independently as a separate module and run in a network over general computing (e.g., hardware independent and hypervisor independent).
Orchestrated: Virtualized functions and orchestration, which enables the benefits of the all the different capabilities to work in a “networked” or “service chaining” approach to deliver expanded functionality and address even wider market opportunities.
Pod: Virtualized service functions combined with orchestration and a hardware package – implementation in a Pod approach.
“As a Service”: A model where complete service offers that include virtualized service functions combined with orchestration and delivered through a hosted or third-party cloud for faster time-to-market, using a pay-as-you-go model.