The Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP) is a comprehensive virtualization and orchestration software platform that creates, automates and provisions services in real time, across compute, storage and network functions, to deliver desired business outcomes for applications running across multiple domains and facilitates the shift to new business models. It allows service providers to deliver prepackaged services from a flexible pool of resources that can be reused and personalized for each customer, automatically and on demand. With the Cisco ESP, service providers can confidently automate innovative new cloud service offerings, efficiently harnessing their network and data center assets and helping to reduce their current operating expenses up to 45 percent, while accelerating new revenue growth at up to five times their current rates. This platform supports faster and more effective ways to facilitate agile business processes and innovation, for a better return on investments (ROI).
Many vendors are working on pieces of the overall solution that is needed, whether in the data center, the wide-area network, or in services orchestration. However, success will be defined by solutions like the Cisco ESP,
which offers an important advantage: It can flexibly combine best-in-class capabilities from an open ecosystem of technologies from any vendor to deliver services in the ways that customers prefer. Imagine being able to respond to market opportunities with the business models you need
