SONA Integrated Network Services At-a-Glance (Overview) At-A-Glance

The Network as the Platform for Business Transformation

The Cisco SONA Approach SONA Integrated Network Services Benefits of Integrated Network Services
The Cisco Services-Oriented Network Architecture The integrated network services layer provides the • Centralized services reduce development time and
(SONA) approach provides a standard paradigm for interconnection from applications to virtualized IP based effort
designing networks that link network services with services. Integrated network services: • Virtualization increases resource utilization and
­applications to drive business value by: lowers capital expenditures
• Are a combination of multiple hardware and
• Enabling rapid adoption and deployment of software technologies • Server offload to the network increases efficiency
new application services at a reduced cost of • Provide pools of functionalities which are loosely and lowers operational expenditures
­development and overhead coupled and reusable across the enterprise architecture • Application performance improves effectiveness of
• Coordinating application and network events with • Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of internal and external collaboration
business processes to speed business agility resources and applications • Ubiquitous network services and integrations
• Enforcing business policies in the application and • Leverage the ubiquitous access and improves business responsiveness and agility
network infrastructure to improve security and ­responsiveness of the network. Figure 3 Aligning Business with Technology
reduce risk
Figure 2 SONA Integrated Network Services Business Company Process
• Aligning network resources to applications to Agility Differentiation Simplification
meet business objectives to provide a competitive
­differentiation Security
Proactive response
Unified
Communication Business
Rich media
Threat mitigation
Unified Collaboration Architecture
Figure 1 The Cisco SONA Architecture Security Communications

Applications Mobility Computing Service-Oriented Network Architecture

Wired and wireless Identity and
Business Applications Collaboration Applications preference
Mobility Computing
Technology
Architecture
Management Services

Application Delivery Application-Oriented Networking

Storage Identity
Real-time tiered Intelligence in
Security Services Unified Communications
services the network
Services
Integrated Storage Identity
Mobility Services
Network Services Compute Services Consolidation Virtualization Automation
Storage Services Identity Services

Management Services
Application Delivery Application-Oriented Networking

Network Infrastructure Virtualization • Expose centralized and standardized

Security Services
services to
Unified Communications
Services
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applications that developers
Mobility Services
Integrated
Network Services
can call
Compute and use to
Services SONA is the result of Cisco’s decades of enterprise
Network Systems
remove redundant
Storage Services application features Identity Services architecture experience working with global enterprises
Campus Data Center Branch • Make capabilities available to applications that the
Network Infrastructure Virtualization in many industries to deploy enterprise-wide archi-
network can more readily deliver tectures and services that provide greater business
Business Agility is Key to Success • Have Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides that impact.. SONA is the culmination of Cisco’s rich history
Enterprise architecture ensure business strategy and IT detail deployment and configuration in development and innovation of network architectures
investments are aligned. As such, enterprise architecture and integrated network services.
allows traceability from the business strategy down to
the underlying technology. Using the SONA approach IT
will be able to utilize network services to create custom
solutions that transform business processes.
 SONA Integrated Network Services At-a-Glance (Detailed) At-A-Glance
The Network as the Platform for Business Transformation

Make the Network Strategic for Business • Unified Communications: Improve collaboration • Data Replication: Network-based data replication
SONA has several categories of integrated network and responsiveness across multiple wireless services for the transparent movement of SAN data
services with each with multiple services. Each service ­technologies and a broad range of devices across existing IP networks.
provides a function to a business application that • Location: Monitoring and optimization of ­ • Backup and Recovery: Backup and restore service
support’s a business solution. SONA integrated services processes thanks to asset tracking as well as • Virtualization: Thin provisioning, data mobility and
allow applications to offload redundant features and locate ­unauthorized wireless devices cloning across storage devices
functionalities into the network, centralizing service
Unified Communications • Compliance and Retention: Encrypted data-at-rest
management, standardizing service requirements, and
reducing overhead and server load.
• Presence: Tracking of users’ location, availability to ensure compliance with data storage mandates
and preferred communications device to facilitate and risk reduction.
person-to-person interaction Compute
Cisco SONA Integrated Network Services
• Mobility: Deliver applications based on device • Virtualization: Virtualization of multiple smaller
Network Infrastructure Virtualization
capabilities, location information, context and compute resources into a larger compute resource
• Partition one physical network into multiple virtual security
networks Application Delivery
• Speech: Interactive and automated speech-to-text
• Cache: Intelligent caching of frequently requested
Security and text-to-speech capabilities for use by any
data
• Operational Control: Central security ­provisioning device
and policy definition, and desktop and server • Acceleration: Automated compression of traffic
• Policy: Manage and moderate routing rules,
endpoint protection ­directory, access and collaboration privileges
• Load Balancing: Disbursing of traffic to multiple
• Confidential Communications: Client- and points
• Media: Facilitate communications by integrating
­clientless-based secure VPNs that allow secure voice, video and web conferencing capabilities
• Quality of Service: Monitoring and prioritization of
communications internally and externally traffic flows based on policy
• Identity: map resource/policy to the user/device
• Secure Transactions: Day-zero protection for Application Oriented Networking
Identity
web-based applications and advanced application • ESB: Messaging services that enable network
security • AAA: Authentication, access and accounting devices and applications to communicate over a
services that identify users, provide credentials for
• Threat Control and Containment: Malware protec- standardized format
access control, and track accounting information
tion and intrusion protection • Context-Based Routing: Deep packet inspection
• NAC: Identification and authentication of devices
on the wire that enables routing based on context
Mobility
accessing the network
• Security: Mobility-specific security services that
integrate with security services for end-to-end Storage
wireless/wired security • Data Migration: Seamless data movement for
server consolidation and reduction in operations
• Guest Access: Non-employee access to network
and ­management overhead.
resources without compromising enterprise
security

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