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Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

Simplify services management and operations

Gain capital efficiency with 66% improved operating expenses while spending 81% less time deploying services with Crosswork Network Automation. 

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A modern platform for advanced automation

Make your customers happier—all while reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Take control of your network


Increase visibility

Increase visibility

Monitor customer experience with up-to-date, simplified views of network state and operations.

Capture insights

Capture insights

Get correlated, real-time data that highlights current or potential service issues.

Take action

Take action

Plan, design, test, and make network changes based on insights.

Move quickly and precisely across dynamic environments


Software defined ​and autonomous

Access actionable data, get programmatic network control, and drive towards zero-touch operations.

Scalable and adaptive

Adjust effortlessly to changes in size, volume, and cadence.

Multivendor, multidomain, cloud scale

​​Operate easily across technology boundaries and take advantage of SaaS and hybrid workflows.

Crosswork Network Automation high performance platform

Flexible purchase options

Buy only what you need, when you need it. License individually or buy packaged, cost-efficient suite options.

Hierarchical Controller

Manage and operate your IP and optical networks with ease using a single dashboard.

Network Controller

​​Make the most of your network's capacity and resources.​

​​Network Services Orchestrator​

Bridge the gap between intent and action for dynamic service delivery, now with even higher performance.

Optimization Engine

Maximize network utility and increase service velocity with policy-based optimization.

Evolved Programmable Network Manager

Unify element and network management across the core, edge aggregation, and access.

WAN Automation Engine

​​Simulate and analyze failures, design changes, and the impact of traffic growth with this network design tool.​

Workflow Manager

Run your network confidently with reliable, accurate, and repeatable processes.

​​Network Insights

​​Ensure your network's health and monitor for route leaks and hijacks.​

Traffic Analysis

​​Get a comprehensive network view and analyze traffic at network peering points.​

Trust Insights

Preserve the trustworthiness of your network infrastructure with rich analytics and alerts on device integrity.


For partners

​​Accedian Skylight, now part of Cisco, for Network Automation​

​​Understand and monitor the customer experience.​

​​Read data sheet​

​​Vitria VIA AIOps for Cisco Network Automation​

​​Find faults and performance issues faster.​

​​Read solutions brief​

Solutions and use cases

Cisco Routed Optical Networking

​​Lower total cost of ownership up to 46% when you move to converged transport.​

Automated assurance

Keep your customers loyal by ensuring consistent service quality of experience.