Cisco Network Assurance Engine

Comprehensive. Intelligent. Continuous.

Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE) transforms operations in data center networks to a fundamentally more proactive model. Built on Cisco’s patented network verification technology, it is the most comprehensive assurance engine that mathematically verifies the entire network for correctness, giving operators confidence that their network is always operating consistent with intent.

Solution overviewCisco Network Assurance Engine is the critical Intent Assurance pillar of Cisco’s vision for intent-based data center networks. Built on Cisco’s patented network verification technology, Network Assurance Engine is a comprehensive intent-assurance solution that mathematically verifies the entire data center network for correctness. It gives operators the confidence that their network is always operating consistently with their intent, even as it changes dynamically.With Cisco Network Assurance Engine operators can:

Predict the impact of changes: Proactively verify changes for correctness to drive increased change agility while significantly reducing the risk of human error–induced network failures.

Verify network-wide behaviour: Continuously analyze and verify the dynamic state of the network against intent and policy to ensure connectivity and eliminate potential network outages and vulnerabilities before any business impact occurs.

Assure network security policy and compliance: Assure network security policies and check for compliance against business rules to reduce security risk and achieve provable continuous compliance by policy and state.

Cisco Network Assurance Engine achieves all of the above by reading the entire policy, every configuration, and the network-wide state, along with the operator intent, and building from these comprehensive and mathematically accurate models of network behaviour. It then combines these models with Cisco’s more than 30 years of operational domain knowledge of networking. The result is automatically generated smart events that instantly pinpoint any deviations from intended behaviour and suggest expert-level remediation recommendations. By providing this continuous verification and validation of the entire data center network, Cisco Network Assurance Engine fundamentally transforms the operations paradigm from reactive to proactive.

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Overview: Cisco Network Assurance Engine Security Compliance

Cisco Network Assurance Engine Release Notes, Release 4.1(1)