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To help service providers build a foundation for cloud services, Cisco has introduced Cisco (News - Alert) Unified Service Delivery. According to the San Jose, California-based company – the world’s largest maker of computer networking gear – the solution combines the power of Cisco’s data center portfolio and Unified Computing architecture with the capabilities of IP-based, next-generation networks.

 

Unified Service Delivery helps service providers offer video, data and video services from the data center, helping them to build a foundation of cloud services. Cisco Unified Service Delivery makes use of the products such as the Cisco Unified Computing System and the Cisco Nexus Switch to offer its services. It also uses a new data-center optimized configuration of Cisco’s flagship router, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, and Cisco’s wide range of IP NGN products.

 

Reducing IT infrastructure costs and complexity, the Cisco Unified Computing System unites compute, network, storage access and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system. The Cisco Unified Computing System supports more workload and uses less power than any other similar offering, claims Cisco.

 

“The unification of the data center and the IP Next Generation Network is a natural progression not just in the evolution of networking – it also builds the foundation for innovative service providers such as Terremark and iTricity to enable them to optimize their networks toward delivering new revenue-generating cloud-based services,” said Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager of the service provider routing technology group at Cisco.

 

The Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution is optimized to enable virtualization within the data center, between data centers and across the IP NGN, claims Cisco.

 

The company recently partnered with Openet through an OEM deal and has signed its first contract with a Tier 1, U.S. wireline and wireless service provider. The provider will deploy the Cisco-branded Openet (News - Alert) FusionWorks Policy Manager product along with Cisco’s Mobility Solutions. Openet officials say the combined deployment of Openet’s policy and Cisco’s deep packet inspection products will let the operator “automate control over its wireless and wireline networks.