Cisco Crosswork Network Controller - License - CNC-LAB-K9

• Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO)
  Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) is a proven multi-vendor, cross-domain automation platform that links business intent to an organization's underlying physical and virtual infrastructure. Cisco NSO has been shaped of helping Tier-1 service provider customers to automate everything from simple device turn-up, to cross-domain automation, to sophisticated full life cycle service management on a multi-vendor network.
• Segment Routing Path Computation Element (SR-PCE)
  Cisco Crosswork Network Controller uses the combination of telemetry and Cisco Segment Routing Path Computation Element (SR-PCE) to analyze and compute optimal SR policy paths. Cisco SR-PCE runs on the Cisco IOS XR operating system. SR-PCE provides stateful PCE functionality that helps control and move SR policies to optimize the network. PCE describes a set of procedures by which a Path Computation Client (PCC) can report and delegate control of headend tunnels sourced from the PCC to a PCE peer. The PCC and PCE establish a Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) connection that SR-PCE uses to push updates to the network.
• Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway
  Networks maintain a large amount of data that spans thousands of devices. Cisco Crosswork Network Controller uses a data collection service along with Cisco Crosswork Data Gateway (Crosswork CDG) to collect and manage this data. Crosswork Data Gateway collects physical (ENTITY-MIB, IF-MIB) and logical (LAG, VRF) objects from network devices and publishes collected data for the northbound analytics applications. Data from network devices is collected using multiple protocols including CLI, SNMP, and Model-Driven Telemetry.
• Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine
  Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine provides real-time network optimization allowing operators to effectively maximize network capacity utilization, as well as increase service velocity. Leveraging real-time protocols such as BGP-LS and Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP), SR-PCE and Crosswork Optimization Engine enable closed-loop tracking of the network state, reacting quickly to changes in network conditions to support a self-healing network.
• Cisco Crosswork Active Topology
  Cisco Crosswork Active Topology enables visualization of topology and services on logical and geographical maps.
• Crosswork Common UI and API
  Crosswork Common UI provides an integrated user interface for device onboarding / management, service provisioning using NSO, SR policy visualization using Cisco Crosswork Optimization Engine, and service inventory and topology visualization using Cisco Crosswork Active Topology. The Crosswork API provides a RESTCONF interface to facilitate integration with higher level controllers / orchestrators.

Cisco Crosswork Network Controller is an integrated solution combining Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Segment Routing Path Computation Element (SR-PCE), and Crosswork applications with a common UI and API. The solution enables you to proactively manage your end-to-end networks and provides intent-based and closed-loop automation solutions to ensure faster innovation, good user experience, and operational excellence.