Cisco Unveils Unified Service Delivery for Cloud Services

Extending its Data Center 3.0 strategy, Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled Tuesday the Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution to help service providers build a foundation for cloud services.

Cisco Unified Service Delivery incorporates data center products, such as the Cisco Unified Computing System, the Cisco Nexus Switch, the new data-center optimized Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System as well as Cisco's IP Next-Generation Networks products.

Cisco recently introduced its Unified Computing System architecture, which unites computer, network, storage access and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system. UCS will be generally available to customers starting in the second quarter of 2009.

In addition, the company is adding modules to the Cisco CRS-1 to permit providers to virtualize traffic and network operations on a per-service or per-customer basis with a smaller Cisco CRS-1 footprint. Specifically, it’s adding two 10-gigabit modules and a Cisco 40-gigabit forwarding processor.

Synergy Research Group estimates that compared with a traditional data center, a unified service delivery approach enables greater power efficiency by a factor of two, produces between 5.49 and 6.99 times the four-year cumulative savings in operating expenditures on virtualized video infrastructure and between 5.3 and 5.86 times the savings in capital expenditures, and demonstrates twice the four-year cumulative savings in operating expenditures on virtualized unified communications voice infrastructure.

"As service providers take proactive steps at transitioning to cloud services and becoming part of the value chain of data center virtualization, they are looking at two key factors, profitability and increasing revenue," said Ray Mota, chief strategist for Synergy Research Group. "The Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution is designed to increase speed to new revenue, simplify service delivery, provide a more secure experience and reduce costs while addressing data center longevity and efficiencies."

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