Optimize Your Business Critical Traffic

Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) provides application-level classification, monitoring, and traffic control to improve the performance of business-critical applications. It is supported on the Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) and the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Service Routers (ASR 1000s). The Cisco AVC solution facilitates capacity planning and ongoing optimization, while reducing network operating costs.

The Cisco AVC Solution helps you:

• Identify and classify over 1,000 on-premise and cloud applications
• Monitor application response time, latency, jitter, and other performance metrics
• Export application performance metrics with Cisco IOS NetFlow v9 or IP Information export (IPFIX)
• Set different priorities and dynamically choose network paths based on application and business needs
  

Essential links to learn more about the AVC solution

• Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) Home
• Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) Technical Overview
• Cisco Performance Routing (PfR)
• Presentations on Slideshare

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Find information about AVC design

Blogs

• Are You Ready for Performance Routing?
• InfoVista Highlights the Significance of Cisco AVC to Application Visibility for Operators

Case Studies

• French Service Provider Invests in Cisco Cloud Control (PDF - 201 KB)
  
• PfR - Global Business Analytics Leader Reduces WAN Network Costs
  
• PfR - Lending Cooperative's Network Promotes Uptime, Boosts Performance (PDF - 221 KB)

Design Guides

• Application Monitoring using NetFlow - Deployment Guide (PDF - 4.4 MB)
• Application Visibility and Control Deployment Guide for Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controllers
• AVC Solution Guide with Cisco Prime Infrastructure
• Enterprise Medianet Quality of Service Design 4.0 - Overview
• Medianet WAN Aggregation QoS Design 4.0
• PfR Solution Guides

White Papers

• Application Visibility and Control (AVC) for PCoIP
• Cisco Modular Quality of Service Command Line Interface
• DiffServ - The Scalable End-to-End QoS Model
  
• Hierarchical Queuing Framework

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Configure and troubleshoot AVC components

Learn about network management

• Application Visibility & Control Developer Center
• Cisco Prime Infrastructure

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Use the following reference information to help configure, operate, or deploy AVC

• Cisco Application Visibility and Control Field Definition Guide for Third-Party Customers
• Cisco AutoQoS Enterprise Technical Presentation (PDF - 1 MB)
• Cisco IOS Media Monitoring Command Reference – Cisco Performance Monitor
• Cisco IOS Performance Routing Command Reference
• Legacy QoS CLI Commands Deprecation
• Optimizing The Service Provider Network for Voice, Video, and Data (PDF - 1 MB)
• Quality of Service - The Differentiated Services Model
• The Differentiated Services Model (DiffServ)
• Understanding Queuing With Hierarchical Queueing Framework

Videos

• Cisco IOS Quality of Service Interactive Video: Learn More
• Configuring Performance Routing Video (6:11 min)
  
• Myths about Performance Routing Video (4:56 min)
  
• Performance Routing Enterprise Deployment Video (5:56 min)
  
• Performance Routing Internet Deployment Video (5:02 min)
  
• Performance Routing Product Demonstration Video (8:26 min)

Use the following help links for frequently asked questions

• AVC FAQs
• Performance Routing FAQs
• Quality of Service for Multi-Protocol Label Switching Networks Q&A

Related Information

• Medianet Knowledge Base Portal

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