3310 Mobility Services Engine, 1.8 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 250 Gb HDD, DVD combo, 2 x RJ45, 3 x USB, 2 PS/2, 1 VGA
Product Overview
The Cisco® 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine is an open platform that provides a new approach for the delivery of mobility services to enable mobile business applications. A combination of hardware and software, the Mobility Services Engine is an appliance-based solution that supports a suite of software services to provide centralized and scalable service delivery. The Mobility Services Engine transforms the wireless LAN into a mobility network by abstracting the application layer from the network layer, effectively allowing for the delivery of mobile applications across different types of networks, including Wi-Fi, Ethernet, cellular, WiMAX, and RFID.
To deliver true business mobility, IT must take a practical approach focused on unifying networks, managing the wave of mobile devices, and enabling mobile application development. The Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine is at the heart of this mobility architecture evolution. It provides an open API that allows a broader ecosystem of partners to access network intelligence in developing industry-relevant mobility solutions. The Mobility Services Engine is an extension of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network, and integrates with Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco compatible devices to deliver a comprehensive approach to business mobility-an approach that extends applications to the right device at the right time, no matter which network is being used.
Mobility Services Architecture
Cisco Mobility Services are a set of value-added network services that consolidate intelligence from various points in the network to enable and optimize the delivery of business mobility applications. This intelligence has typically been highly distributed throughout the network, resulting in complex service provisioning and management. When services, control, and data planes are combined a single platform, the added complexity limits the network's ability to scale and adapt to new services while maintaining consistent performance.
The answer lies in a centralized services architecture. While still critical to the ability of networks to provide the intelligence for the optimal performance of mobile applications, mobility services should be abstracted from the control and data planes in order to be centralized into the services engine. This centralization of services offers several benefits, including scalability and improved provisioning and management. Additionally, a centralized services architecture removes the direct linkage between service and network, allowing services to extend across a variety of networks, including Wi-Fi, Ethernet, WiMAX, and cellular.
Increasingly, the mobility network must be able to support a multitude of applications. The true value of mobility services is delivered via their ability to enhance application performance by providing real-time information from the network and related applications. This cross-pollination of network and application intelligence has a synergistic effect, augmenting the richness and breadth of the types of mobility solutions that can be delivered. At the same time, a critical component of services delivery is helping to ensure that third-party applications have a standard interface by which they can access this network and application intelligence. The Cisco Mobility Services Engine supports an open API based on Simple Object Access Protocol/Extensible Markup Language (SOAP/XML), which provides northbound access to these services to an ecosystem of mobility application partners. With service intelligence centralized from the control network into the Mobility Services Engine, IT can open access to the API without concern about disruption to the underlying production network.
Mobility Services Availability
The Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine is a combination of hardware and software infrastructure that supports a suite of mobility services programs. Designed as an open platform, the Mobility Services Engine supports mobility services software in a modular fashion, with various configuration options based on network topology and the types of services required. The true value of the Mobility Services Engine is delivered through the various mobility services applications. Cisco supports existing and future software including:
- Context-Aware software: These programs capture and integrate into business processes detailed contextual information about such things as location, temperature, availability and applications used. Context-aware applications feature a wide range of location options, including real-time location, presence detection, chokepoint visibility, and telemetry. Support for enhanced received signal strength indication (RSSI) and time difference of arrival (TDoA) technology delivers greater scale accuracy and performance for a broad range of environments.
- Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) software provides visibility and comprehensive threat prevention for the mobility network through monitoring, alerts, classifying, and remediation of wireless and wired network vulnerabilities.
- Mobile Intelligent Roaming software delivers seamless mobile device roaming between cellular and Wi-Fi networks based on real-time location information. This open system is designed to enable seamless handoff across a wide range of partner IP-PBX solution vendors, mobile device manufacturers, and overlay third- parties.
- Secure Client Manager software delivers centralized provisioning, security, and management of an increasingly diverse number of devices via the Cisco Secure Services Client 802.1X solution, and by integrating with third-party device management solutions.
These services represent the initial suite of software supported on the Cisco Mobility Services Engine. Cisco will deliver additional software services in the future. The Cisco Mobility Services Engine, in conjunction with the services provided, increases productivity and improves return on investment.
