Networking

AnyDevice program enabling employees to choose and own their own device, and secure it for safe business use.

Cisco has gained multiple business benefits from secure mobility, starting with our first implementation of a WLAN in 2000, through VPN connectivity, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and the redesigned office spaces and BYOD policies of recent years. Learn about the benefits and details regarding what we have implemented in our mobility journey.

Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) for simplified, centralized, and automated policy management across converged LAN and Campus networks.

Cisco IT manages thousands of switches and APs in more than 400 global offices. We’re always looking for ways to strengthen compliance with security policy, improve the user experience, and simplify our jobs to make more time for innovation. Enforcing security policies based on identity rather than location saves time for IT and gives people more flexibility to choose where they work.

Secure, seamless roaming across corporate and public Wi-Fi and mobile (LTE/5G) networks.

OpenRoaming will provide our mobile users with frictionless onboarding and secure access to resources across private and public Wi-Fi and 5G networks. Users need to sign on only once with a trusted identity provider. Afterward, they will be automatically connected to OpenRoaming networks whenever and wherever one is available.

Automated, policy-based segmentation across campus and branch access networks for security, agility, and policy enablement within between and segments.

Enforcing security policies and automated segmentation based on identity rather than location saves time for IT, protects resources, and gives people more flexibility to choose where they work.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to provide accurate insights for reactive and proactive event management and faster remediation.

By applying advanced analytics and machine learning across our own Data Center, WAN, and Access networks public Internet and Cloud networks we will be able to empower administrators to significantly improve performance and issue resolution.

Employing wireless and sensors to collect location and state information from people and devices for better workplace safety and efficiency and resource management.

Employee safety is top of mind as we gradually welcome employees back to Cisco offices across the globe. Before allowing employees to return, our Workplace Resources team wants to make sure employees are practicing social distancing—not standing or sitting too close or gathering in large groups. Our network is vital in ensuring the resumption of safe, productive, and collaborative work.

Integration of full IT Service Management (in Cisco, ServiceNow / Cisco ESP) with other automated management systems for end to end infrastructure inventory and status management.

We are integrating our network controller systems ad ITSM system in multiple ways to make it easier to find the right information to solve problems, streamline tasks for network changes, and allow routine operational tasks to run autonomously in an end-to-end automated workflow.

AI-enabled automation of intent translation, application classification, and application performance policy creation and activation.

With low cost, fixed form factor IoT endpoints becoming increasingly prevalent on our networks, there is an urgent need to automate identification and apply access policies. We need an automated method of finding, identifying, segmenting, and monitoring traffic for all types of connected devices.

Full cycle automation for onboarding all users and devices to any part of the private or public network, including user and device identification, authentication, and policy activation.

To ensure consistently good voice, video and data application experiences for all users has traditionally required the integration of a comprehensive set of WAN traffic control and security features into our branch-office routers. Cisco IT has long used WAAS to optimize WAN bandwidth and improve performance for Cisco users when they access content-rich applications from remote offices.

A new WAN architecture (CloudPort) with Internet access & Security / WAN hub in CoLo Carrier Neutral Facility (CNF).

IT must change WAN designs from centralized around internal DC to more disperse utilization of the ""Cloud"" and various Cloud Services. To do this Cisco IT has built secure CloudPorts in or near Carrier Neutral facilities which enable optimized connectivity to Cloud resources and allow to quickly & securely interconnect clouds.

Dual parallel backbone WAN of Leased and Internet connections enabling QoS route selection and overall lower cost.

In this age of multicloud, Cisco IT realized we needed a new WAN backbone that will allow us to operate more like a service provider for our internal clients. Built on the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running Cisco IOS-XR software, this highly scalable and programmable router provides a strong foundation for access to and between increasingly distributed applications and users.

Cisco Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) for simplified, centralized, and automated policy management of virtual overlay WANs across any WAN circuit(s).

We’re becoming a true multi-cloud company. We use almost 1000 cloud services, including Cisco Webex, Salesforce, Office365, and Box. Currently, more than 25% of traffic from our campuses and branch offices heads to public clouds. So we needed more capacity, operational consistency, and agility to keep delivering a great application experience to employees in our 450 branch offices.

Multiple security functions integrated into one cloud service; the flexibility to deploy security services how and where you choose; ability to secure direct-to-internet access, cloud app usage, and roaming users; plus, no appliances to deploy.

Provide AI-enabled insights across WAN, Internet, and Cloud connections for reactive and proactive application service-level optimization.

AI / ML guided, fully reactive, and proactive WAN as a Service automation.

AI-enabled SD-WAN uses insights to identify application performance impacting network issues and dynamically takes action to achieve performance enhancements. It uses APM, public network telemetry, and SD-WAN analytics to ensure a proactive response to dynamic network, application, and security conditions.

Fully automated cloud-connected, SaaS/IaaS-connected WAN / Core as a Service.

A fully automated lifecycle for multicloud networking enabling agile and secure workload management and access.
• Applications: Workloads including modern architectures composed of microservices and containers, supported by an agile, flexible, and elastically scalable network that delivers consistent and simple provisioning, management, and security.
• Access: Highly available and responsive access to applications (including on premises, IaaS, and SaaS) delivered with consistent security, reliability, and performance to users and devices anywhere.

Automated policy-based segmentation for any user or device anywhere to any application or workload anywhere.

Automated policy-based segmentation consistently across all network domains (access, WAN, DC, multicloud). Allows automated zero-trust on-boarding, categorization, and access to only authorized resources.

Automated policy-based application optimization for any user or device anywhere to any application anywhere.

End-to-end activation of stated business intent and application performance requirements from user or device to and between workloads consistently across all network domains (access, WAN, DC, multicloud).

End to end application service monitoring and assurance with AI-enabled predictive trouble shooting and remediation.

True end-to-end application visibility and assurance of stated business intent and policy from user or device to applications or between workload consistently across all network domains (access, WAN, DC, multicloud).

End to end intent-based networking continuously aligns the network to meet changing business needs, application requirements, and user experience demands.

CITEIS first generation private cloud VMWare IaaS / OpenShift PaaS cloud environment.

In 2013 the Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services program, or CITEIS, was our internal implementation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) resources in a private cloud. CITEIS was designed to provide a consumer-type IT experience to our developers while Cisco IT maintains governance and control over the infrastructure.

Full service private cloud - supporting OpenStack, KVM Docker containers & Kubernetes, with full PaaS support for multiple combinations of Dev/Sec/Ops platform tools for app designers.

In 2018 we extended the concepts behind CITEIS to an expanded internal Cisco IT Cloud’s Compute and Storage service. This service is built upon a new private-cloud infrastructure utilizing Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) C-series servers and Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), as well as OpenStack and other open-source software.

A Software-Defined data center infrastructure, policy-based deployment, and white-list security.

By moving our Platform as a Service (PaaS) application development and Dev/Ops private cloud to our ACI fabric we are bringing greater automation, security, ease of use and cost-savings to our IT data center infrastructure through open source and open APIs.

Cisco Network Assurance Engine helps network operations teams meet the agility, uptime, and security policy compliance requirements of modern data center networks.

Cisco IT uses NAE to transform ACI network operations from a reactive posture to a highly proactive approach. This approach substantially drives down MTTR for incidents, shrinks change windows, and optimizes planning in large scale data centers.

Automate and assure consistent network policies for your distributed applications across multicloud environments.

Cisco is extending existing policies, governing tenants or workloads, across network fabrics that traverse on-premises and cloud environments, with centralized policy provisioning and management applied consistently across this multicloud network.

Simplify network operations with policy automation and insights for your distributed applications, managed centrally across your multicloud environment