Cisco Crosswork Planning At-a-Glance
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Simplify network planning and optimization with AI-powered Crosswork Planning
Cisco Crosswork® Planning is an AI-enabled network automation software designed to empower communications service providers to simplify network planning, optimize performance, and achieve operational excellence with speed, accuracy, and precision. By leveraging predictive AI insights generated using Crosswork network data collection, network operators can accurately forecast network needs, proactively address future congestion, and achieve optimal resource allocation, resulting in accelerated service delivery and network efficiency.
With AI insights and advanced optimization tools, Crosswork Planning enables network operators to make faster and more informed decisions on capacity needs and IT investments, reducing unnecessary network provisioning and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Advanced optimization tools like Segment Routing Optimization, IGP Metric, and Topology Optimization also help with high-level goal setting around minimizing latency, maximizing bandwidth utilization, and achieving more granular control.
Key attributes of Crosswork Planning
● Al-enabled predictive analytics help network engineers determine the impact of network changes, track traffic growth, and proactively address congestion.
● Intuitive insights enable network planners to simplify capacity planning and optimize resource allocation based on future needs, minimizing overall CapEx.
● Data-driven analytics enable network managers to gain an in-depth understanding of network traffic flows to proactively provision capacity and optimize network reliability, delivering real business impact.
● Drives proactive capacity management: Predicts future needs and helps network operators make informed decisions about network planning, investment, and growth priorities.
● Enhances agility: Seamlessly scales and integrates new services to meet evolving network demands.
● Reduces operational costs: Simplifies planning, automates tasks, and optimizes resource allocation.
● Improves network performance: Identifies and prevents network congestion, enables more accurate capacity planning, and helps ensure high availability and reliability.
Transform your network and reduce costs
Crosswork Planning is powered by a component-based architecture that scales effortlessly to accommodate growing demands and a UI that helps ensure modularity and easy maintenance. The Crosswork Planning collector gathers data from built-in collectors to model the current network and abstract plan files. Users can then conduct myriad offline tests across the abstracted plan files, such as “what if” scenarios, simulation analysis, capacity planning, and network optimization to visualize, optimize, and analyze the network health. Through simulation analysis and programmatic testing of every circuit, network operations can proactively:
● Reduce costs by optimizing network traffic and avoiding unnecessary circuit upgrades and associated equipment costs.
● Mitigate risk through network assessments that can spot anomalies and report on network health.
With Crosswork, services providers can proactively predict and manage network capacity and resources by analyzing the impact of network changes which in turn drives OpEx reduction.
Accelerate your automation journey
Proactively planning, automating, and deploying the right resources across your network can accelerate services time to market and enhance customer experience. For more information on how Crosswork Planning works, contact Cisco Sales.