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    • Cisco Networking Software

      • Use Cisco networking software to share innovative capabilities across platforms and promote continuity of your intelligent network.

    • Cisco IOS Software

      • Integrate technology, business-critical services, and hardware support with this network infrastructure software used around the world.

    • Cisco IOS XE Software

      • The evolution of Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software, is optimal for facilitating enterprise and service provider services.

    • Cisco IOS XR Software

      • This self-healing, self-defending, always-on operating system provides service providers a foundation for network and service convergence.

    • Cisco NX-OS Software

      • This full-featured, modular, and scalable operating system offers high availability, simplified operations, and exceptional flexibility.

Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software Solutions

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Cisco IOS Software Technology Solutions

This wide range of solutions takes advantage of the power, platform support, efficiency, and flexibility of Cisco IOS Software.

Cisco IOS Technologies Portfolio

Broadband

Service Provider products for delivering and managing cable, DSL, Ethernet, and mobile networks.

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Cisco IOS IP Mobility

Connect your mobile enterprise community.

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Cisco IOS Security

Protection and safety that starts at the operating system and provides end-to-end enforcement.

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Cisco IOS Software Activation

Fast deployment, easy roll-out, and centralized network management.

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High Availability

Helping your network recover from faults with no effect on users or applications.

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IP Multicast

Bandwidth conservation technology to deliver faster, more sophisticated services to more users and control server loads.

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IP and Routing Services

Complete protocol interface support for improved availability, scalability, and connectivity

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IPv6

Transition from IPv4 to the newest intelligent, network-centric capabilities.

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Management Instrumentation

Embedded instrumentation that accelerates new technology adoption and reduces downtime.

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Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Build next-generation networks across your IP, Frame Relay, ATM, and Ethernet infrastructure.

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Quality of Service (QoS)

Manage the delay, delay variation (jitter), bandwidth, and packet loss parameters on your network.

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Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Provide and control user access through Layer 2 and Layer 3 products for IP and MPLS environments.

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More Cisco IOS Technologies

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At A Glance

Cisco has helped set the standard for today's Internet culture. The exceptional Cisco platforms that run networking software have established users' expectations for an optimal, high-quality experience.

Networking That Understands Your Business Needs
Multiple technology trends are changing the dynamics of how people and devices interact. Cisco networking software provides contextual intelligence to help you meet your business needs today.

Adapting to Influential Trends
Cisco has evolved its networking software by adapting to the shifting paradigm caused by megatrends and their wide-ranging and long-lasting influence. Cisco has created more flexible deployment models of networking systems across private, public, and hybrid networks.

The Cisco networking software evolution includes a culmination of:

  • Software reuse
  • Software containers
  • Programmable APIs

As a result, this software more effectively combines appropriate technologies to transparently interact with management and application software. This synchronization offers greater context awareness spanning the entire scope of networking needs.

Providing Network Intelligence and Services

Cisco now has a cohesive portfolio of software, including:

  • Management and orchestration
  • Application and business
  • Networking

This portfolio provides the continuity of network intelligence and services for business solutions and the network on both the client and the infrastructure.

Delivering an Optimal User Experience
The ability to share software and maintain consistent features as it is distributed across a variety of architectural platforms is invaluable. Software is therefore a vital consideration to help ensure an optimized user environment.

The coordination of technology across multiple networks and mobility, video, and voice thresholds facilitates the user experience transparently. This functional and intuitive intelligence helps recognize user behavior and is programmable for rapid adaptation to a user's environmental needs, whether business or personal.

 

Featured Case Study

  1. IT Service Provider Brings 802.1X Security to Wired Network

    Siemens IT Solutions and Services uses Cisco 802.1X security solution to control network access for mobile workforces.

  2. NTTPC Communications Inc. Offers Auto Configuration for SP Managed Services

    NTTPC Communications Inc. deploys Cisco Integrated Service Routers with IOS Embedded Event Manager to reduce overall cost of operations.

  3. Global Business Analytics Leader Reduces WAN Network Costs

    SAS uses Performance Routing to help ensure top performance for business-critical communications, while controlling costs.

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