At-A-Glance
Cisco Prime for Mobility
What Is the Value of Cisco Prime for Mobility?
Cisco Prime™ for Mobility is a comprehensive, end-to-end management solution
for the next-generation mobile network. Through highly efficient and integrated
management of the entire mobile network, Cisco Prime for Mobility helps service
providers achieve significant levels of operational scale while meeting the most
demanding mobile service assurance requirements. Tightly aligned with Cisco® Mobile
Internet Architecture, Cisco Prime for Mobility supports a breadth of Cisco’s worldclass mobility networking solutions, including the Cisco ASR 5000 and Cisco ASR
5500 core multimedia services platforms.
What Problems Does It Help Solve?
The proliferation of new devices and rich-media applications and the increasing
number of mobile broadband subscribers are creating new revenue opportunities
for mobile service providers. The challenge, however, is the disparate network
management tools that create a noncollaborative environment and that limit the scale
of operations, prolong the time to revenue, and negatively affect the quality of services
(QoS). Additionally, the high costs associated with integrating these tools are eroding
mobile service providers’ profitability. Cisco Prime for Mobility helps mitigate these
challenges.
• Cisco Prime Performance Manager: Gives access to fast, actionable information for
the entire mobile network, supporting Cisco and multivendor devices - with custom
and prepackaged reports that are easily extensible
• Cisco Prime Optical: Provides circuit provisioning and troubleshooting as well as
performance and configuration management for the optical domain, supporting
Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) RAN backhaul
• Cisco Prime Network: Provides fault monitoring and isolation for RAN backhaul and
EPC, as well as topology-guided troubleshooting for RAN backhaul
See Figure 1.
Figure 1. Cisco Prime for Mobility Helps Enable Outstanding Operational Scale and Mobile Service
Assurance
Cisco Prime for Mobility
Cisco Prime for Mobility is a Cisco Prime Carrier Management solution, referring to the
set of capabilities optimized for managing mobile networks.
Cell Site, RAN Backhaul, Evolved Packet Core, Data Center
This modular suite consists of:
• Cisco Prime Central: Provides a single management interface to all components
of the suite and access to integrated operator workflows across the Radio Access
Network (RAN) backhaul and Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
• Cisco Prime Provisioning: Accelerates mobile service deployments by providing
automated resource management and rapid, profile-based provisioning of IP
RAN backhaul
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At-A-Glance
What Are the Benefits of Cisco Prime for Mobility?
• Outstanding operational scale: Integrated operator workflows across the RAN
backhaul and Long Term Evolution (LTE) EPC help minimize overhead and drive
efficiencies.
• Improved mobile customer experience: A unified view of the entire mobile network
and advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics help provide superior mobile service
assurance.
• Lower total cost of ownership: Preintegrated network management software
components significantly reduce time and resources required for integration.
Why Cisco?
With its unmatched experience and expertise, Cisco offers industry-leading solutions
for packet and transport network design, fulfillment, assurance, and analysis. Built on
a service-centered foundation, Cisco Prime Carrier Management solutions utilize an
intuitive workflow-oriented approach, empowering organizations to more effectively
manage their networks and the services they deliver. Existing customers with current
maintenance are able to upgrade Cisco Prime components, helping to ensure that their
investment is protected as Cisco continues to extend application capabilities that help
further drive down costs and increase efficiency.
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