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VOICE, VIDEO, AND INTEGRATED DATA

Successful companies are using Internet business solutions to provide superior customer service, to enable market-share growth, and to reduce operating costs. By using the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) blueprint, Cierra Business Solutions provides the framework for today's Internet business solutions. As the industry's only enterprise-wide, standards-based network architecture, Cisco AVVID provides the road map for combining your business and technology strategies into one cohesive model.

Cierra Business Solutions uses Cisco AVVID to provide a baseline infrastructure that enables enterprises to design networks that scale to meet Internet business demands. Cierra Business Solutions delivers an e-business infrastructure and intelligent network services that are essential for rapid deployment of emerging technologies and new Internet business solutions.

Benefits of Cisco AVVID

Integration: By leveraging the Cisco AVVID architecture and applying the network intelligence      inherent in IP, companies can enable comprehensive tools to improve productivity.
Intelligence: Traffic prioritization and intelligent networking services maximize network efficiency for      optimized application performance.
Innovation: Customers have the ability to adapt quickly in a competitive and changing business      environment.
Interoperability: Standards-based APIs allow open-integration with 3rd party developers, providing      customers with choice and flexibility.

Combining the network infrastructure and services with New World applications, Cisco AVVID accelerates the integration of technology strategy with business vision. Cisco AVVID is the enabler of Internet business solutions for customers via the network infrastructure and key partnerships with developers and integrators.

Importance of Architecture

A network architecture is a roadmap and guide for ongoing network planning, design, and implementation. It provides a coherent framework that unifies disparate solutions onto a single foundation. With Cisco AVVID,Cierra Business Solutions can achieve:

Speed: Rapid deployment of applications
Reliability: Network uptime is increased
Interoperability: Guarantees that multiple solutions work together
Pace of change: Easier validation of new technologies
Cost reduction: Resource and time requirements are minimized, reducing implementation costs

Having developed a network architecture, an organization will then have in a framework in place for more informed decision making, including appropriate investments in network technologies, products, and services.

Components

The Cisco AVVID architecture consists of several building blocks that deliver Internet business solutions to accelerate your enterprise. These building blocks are comprised of network platforms, infrastructure, service control, and Internet business integrators.

Network Infrastructure

Clients: Network clients include IP Phones, wireless devices, PCs and Laptops. These standards-based devices can be interconnected, and functionality can be added through intelligent network services.

Network Platforms: The network platforms are comprised of routers, gateways and switches, servers, firewalls and other devices. This layer of the architecture provides the basis for a complete networking solution.

Intelligent Network Services: The platforms, network services, appliances, and management that allow business rules and policies to be reflected in network performance.

Service Control

The glue that joins the Internet technologies to the Internet business solutions. This software performs network 'fine-tuning' and optimization.

VPN/Security Control
Perimeter Control
Call Control
QoS/Policy Control
Video Media Control
Content Distribution Control
Wireless Access Control
Directory Control

Communication Services

The convergence of media types is enabling richer interactions and greater personalization of applications and services.

Unified Communications
Intelligent Contact Mgt
Collaboration
Multimedia Viewing

Internet Business Integrators

In conjunction with ecosystem partners, these solutions improve the effectiveness of business and personal communication by unifying media-independent interactions across voice and data networks.

Internet Business Solutions

These solutions are being deployed by customers to re-engineer their organizations. Delivered via Cisco AVVID, they are key to business strategy and competitive advantage.

 







 




 






 
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