Cisco Cloud Services Platform 2100

Features and Capabilities

With Cisco Cloud Services Platform 2100, you can quickly deploy any Cisco or third-party network virtual service through a simple, built-in, native web user interface (WebUI), command-line interface (CLI), or representational state transfer (REST) API.

The platform helps you answer today's data center challenges, and respond fast to changing service demands.

Challenges

In many data centers, network services run on dedicated appliances. This approach locks you into particular vendors and does not provide much flexibility. You often have to wait weeks or even months for new hardware.

Other challenges include:

• Keeping pace with the service team to deploy service quickly
• Dealing with OpenStack complexity and overhead requirements
• VMware product and support costs, and access to VMware resources
• Familiarity with dedicated hardware appliances

How We Can Help

Cisco Cloud Services Platform helps you respond to these challenges, offering these advantages:

An Easy-to-Use GUI

Get out-of-the box basic lifecycle management using an intuitive interface. Quickly provision and manage Cisco and third-party network services.

Automation

The platform uses REST API and NETCONF protocol for north-bound management and orchestration (MANO) tools.

Clustering

Network services could be abstracted to a pool of high-availability resources among several hosts.

High Performance

It offers Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCle) Passthrough, single-root I/O virtualization, and/or Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) when high performance is needed.

Cisco Cloud Services Platform helps you cut costs and complexity, while improving performance, flexibility, and speed of delivery.