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Cisco Prime is recognized for helping service providers more easily manage their networks.
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Experience Innovative OSS and Network Management
Empower your IT organization to more effectively manage your networks and the services they deliver with the Cisco Prime enterprise and service provider portfolios of management products.
Cisco Prime products deliver next-generation management by supporting an intuitive workflow-oriented user experience and integrated lifecycle operations across Cisco architectures, technologies, and networks. Cisco Prime helps IT organizations:
- Simplify network management
- Improve operational efficiency
- Deliver predictable services
- Lower the total cost of ownership
Cisco Prime for IT products maximize the value of the network through a network services management foundation and common attributes for Borderless Networks, data center, and collaboration architectures, networks, and services.
Resources
- Cisco Prime for IT At-A-Glance (PDF - 572 KB)
Discover how to more effectively manage and simplify network operations.
- Cisco Prime for IT Products At-A-Glance (PDF - 742 KB)
Explore the key features and benefits of Cisco Prime for IT products.
IT Product Portfolio
The Cisco Prime product portfolio delivers integrated management solutions that support the convergence of networks, technologies, and services. The product portfolio includes:
Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Gives you an integrated, comprehensive way to manage the lifecycle of wired and wireless access, along with campus and branch networks, while providing visibility into end-user connectivity and application performance.
- Cisco Prime Infrastructure: Offers comprehensive lifecycle management of wired/wireless access, campus, and branch networks, rich visibility into end-user connectivity, and application performance assurance
- Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module (NAM): Provides deep application-aware network visibility and granular performance analytics that empower network administrators to rapidly isolate and remediate problems and improve the user experience.
- Cisco Prime Network Registrar: Provides integrated, scalable, reliable Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP Address Management (IPAM) services for both IPv4 and IPv6
Cisco Prime Collaboration
Integrated solution for accelerated provisioning, real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, and long-term trending and analysis for Cisco Collaboration voice and video networks.
Cisco Prime Service Catalog
Cisco Prime Service Catalog is a self-service portal where users can order and manage any type of IT service, from data center to desktop. Whether end users order a mobile device, a virtual desktop, or an entire application-development environment in a private cloud, Cisco Prime Service Catalog helps streamline the service request and delivery process.
Data Center
- Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module: Provides deep application-aware network visibility and granular performance analytics that empower network administrators to rapidly isolate and remediate problems and improve the user experience.
- Cisco NetFlow Generation Appliance 3240: Generates, unifies, and exports flow data in high performance data centers, empowering network operations, engineering, and security teams to achieve operational efficiencies, improve services delivery, and harden network security
- Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager: Combines management of Ethernet and storage networks into a single dashboard to help network and storage administrators troubleshoot health and performance across the whole range of Cisco NX-OS platforms, including the Cisco Nexus and MDS 9000 Families, regardless of protocol type
Cisco Prime for Service Providers products provide comprehensive management for IP next-generation networks, mobility, video, and managed services.
Resources
- Analysys Mason White Paper : Potential Business Benefits of Cisco Prime (PDF - 696 KB)
Cisco Prime helps Communication Service Providers address cost, quality and revenue requirements in achieving their business goals.
- White Paper : Cisco Prime Architecture (PDF - 468 KB)
Cisco Prime automates the delivery of advanced customer experiences.
Service Provider Product Portfolio
- Analytics
Provide scalable, real-time, network-centric analytics that allow for adaptation to customer environments and use cases.
- Carrier Management
Simplify the lifecycle management of carrier-grade networks and services by automating service design, fulfillment, assurance, and analysis tasks.
- Cloud Automation
Enable efficient delivery of cloud services by automating lifecycle management processes including provisioning, operations and resource management.
- Operational Systems Software
Efficiently coordinate business and operational processes for rapid design, creation, and delivery of services.
- Endpoint Management
Deploy scalable, flexible DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and AAA services, and connected home management.
- Voice and Video Collaboration
Automate voice provisioning, real-time monitoring and proactive troubleshooting across Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco TelePresence systems.
Cisco Prime for Cloud is a portfolio of software products and solutions for data center automation, cloud computing, and IT systems management.
Cloud Product Portfolio
- Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud helps enable enterprise IT professionals and service providers deliver highly secure on demand IT (ITaaS - IT as a service). By creating a more agile and cost-effective service-delivery vehicle, IT professionals can proactively meet the growing needs of a business.
- Cisco Prime Network Services Controller
The Cisco Prime Network Services Controller, formerly the Cisco Virtual Network Management Center, provides centralized device and policy management for Cisco virtual services. The virtual appliance offers transparent, scalable, and automation-centric management for virtualized enterprise data center and multitenant cloud environments.
Cisco Prime Demo Series
Cisco Prime for IT
- Cisco Prime for IT Demo Series Schedule (PDF - 263 KB)
Learn how Cisco Prime can improve the productivity of your staff, help ensure service delivery, and reduce network downtime. These sessions include short product overview presentations, followed by product demonstrations with use cases that highlight the value of Cisco Prime products and solutions. See schedule for time and dates in your region.
Cisco Prime for IT Training Resources
Software Trial Downloads
Software trial downloads are available for Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Prime Collaboration.
Partner Resources
- Cisco Prime for Partners (Partner Login Required)
- Partner Education Connection (PEC)
- Prime Network Assessment Resources - Installed Base Lifecycle. Management (IBLM) (Partner Login Required)
Cisco Prime for Service Provider
Cisco Prime for Service Providers Demo Recordings
| Prime Demo Series Topic | Playback | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco Prime Home | Play | Download |
| Cisco Prime Carrier Management | Play | Download |
| Cisco Prime Network Registrar | Play | Download |
| Cisco Prime Performance Manager | Play | Download |
| Cisco Prime for Mobility | Play | Download |
- Cisco Knowledge Network OSS and Network Management Service Provider Workshops
Cisco Knowledge Network is an interactive training resource designed to connect Cisco experts with a select group of your technical professionals. The goal is to create and foster a technical virtual community that functions as your one-stop resource for technical updates, peer networking, and interactive dialogue.
Read what analysts are saying about Cisco Prime products:
- Read Cisco Prime for Service Providers: Network Management Systems, January 2013 (PDF - 352 KB)
Analysys Mason provides an assessment of Cisco Prime for Service Providers - 'Cisco has transformed its OSS portfolio from an unstructured and disparate set of software components into a consolidated and highly modular product suite called Cisco Prime.
- Read Intelligence Report (PDF - 74 KB)
Current Analysis reports on Inmarsat and Cisco Team to Deliver Advanced Services Over Global Xpress (GX).
- Read EMA White Paper (PDF - 1.21 MB)
Enterprise Management Associates reviews Cisco Prime Infrastructure and how it aligns network management with converging operation priorities.
- Read EMA White Paper (PDF - 1.44 MB)
Listen to WebcastEnterprise Management Associates assesses Cisco Prime Assurance Manager - a new integrated monitoring solution which can be used to achieve true network assurance.
- Read EMA NAM Brief (PDF - 983 KB)
Enterprise Management Associates hails Cisco NAM for modern IP networks.