Get Application Aware with Your Cisco Network Devices

An important part of shifting a network management strategy from up/down availability measurements to one based on performance is moving beyond a limited, “device-aware” approach to a focus on application delivery—an “application-aware” approach. This entails understanding the content flowing over the links and prioritizing traffic based on the value and importance of that content.

Some of the most advanced application-aware technologies already exist within Cisco routers and switches and don’t require the purchase of additional modules, cards, probes, or proprietary analytical engines. When deployed along with a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) polling product, application-aware technologies such as Cisco IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA), Cisco Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS), and Cisco Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) put the data you need right at your fingertips.

This white paper introduces a set of application-aware capabilities, explains how they can be leveraged within Cisco routers and switches, and outlines their critical role in an overall application delivery management strategy.

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