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Provision QoS end to end: The same capabilities apply to QoS. Configure QoS for your devices and
applications once, centrally. APIC EM can apply enterprise best practices for QoS based on Cisco Validated
Design templates and automatically provision them everywhere, no matter where users move on the
network. So you do not have to worry about one device or application somewhere in your environment being
non-compliant with your QoS.
Third-Party Innovation
As an open platform, Cisco APIC EM makes it much easier to bring innovative new services to your business. It
uses open standards such as OpenFlow and open southbound APIs to control and manage your entire network.
Support for CLI API on APIC-EM enables SDN capabilities on brownfield deployments, rather than requiring a forklift
upgrade to go through phased upgrade/migration of campus. And the Cisco APIC-EM uses open northbound
RESTful APIs to expose deep network intelligence and programmability to third-party applications. So you can bring
in best-in-class applications (or develop your own) to exploit APIC EM programmability. You can deploy and operate
innovative new services everywhere in your network the same way you provision ACLs and QoS. You are not tied to
one vendor’s product roadmap. And you can introduce new capabilities much more quickly and at a much lower
cost.
Cisco is already developing an ecosystem of industry-leading partners that offer preintegrated, pretested solutions
for APIC EM programmable networks, including:
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Threat detection and mitigation
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Cloud-hosted WAN management
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Virtual desktop infrastructure and load balancing
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Network performance management
All of these applications let you program new network policy and capabilities quickly, control them centrally, and use
them anywhere and everywhere in your business environment.
Start Simplifying Today
As your business adopts more services, devices, and clouds, your network is going to get even more complicated.
This problem will not be solved by a new network product or management tool. It requires an end-to-end approach
to business networking.
With Cisco networking capabilities for automation, convergence, and programmability, you can operate far more
efficiently and at a much lower cost. Even more important, IT simplicity frees up your IT resources so you can
operate more strategically. With a network that is simpler, more efficient, and easier to scale, you can focus your
efforts on:
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Designing and optimizing your networks and architecture
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Evaluating new technologies and solutions
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Advising lines of business on how they can make the most of new technologies
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Innovating to improve business agility
Cisco offers a much more compelling way to use IT by making the network simpler and faster. And getting there is
as easy as 1+1=2.