Cisco reaches up and out with AON

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
06/23/05
Today's focus: Cisco reaches up and out with AON

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* Cisco's AON the next building block of its strategy
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Today's focus: Cisco reaches up and out with AON

By Jeff Caruso

Cisco's announcement this week of its Application-Oriented
Networking technology shows that the company sees it as more
than just something that does XML acceleration.

In its press release, Cisco says "the network now speaks the
language of applications" and calls AON the "next phase of the
Intelligent Information Network." In his speech, Cisco CEO John
Chambers called AON "dial tone for applications," according to
my colleague Phil Hochmuth's news article on the introduction:
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062205-cisco-aon.html>

AON is one of Cisco's moves to put more intelligence into its
network equipment. With the LAN hardware market conquered, Cisco
has nowhere to go, really, but up the stack. So that's why the
company is talking about intelligence and applications -
typically Layer 7 stuff.

The AON piece is primarily about XML. Instead of processing XML
traffic on servers, the network equipment starts to take on the
load.

Cisco is collaborating with a set of partners to create AON
"solutions." These partners include EDS, SAIC, TIBCO Software,
and VeriSign. Further, Cisco is working with services and
software firms, including Actional, ConnecTerra, Contivo, CXO
Systems, Infogain, ManTech, Trace Financial, and TransactTools.

Cisco calls this an "ecosystem," and in a way this effort feels
a lot like Cisco's Network Admission Control program, where the
company is bringing in vendors to work with it on security
measures. Again, this goes back to the question of where Cisco
goes from here - and the answer coming from the company is both
up the stack and out to partners, so that Cisco leverages its
position to ensure it remains the center of the network
universe.

Check out Phil's story (linked above) and let me know what you
think of Cisco's strategy at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>

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He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
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at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>
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