Intelligent Management for Intelligent Networks Effective network and service management is critical to any company's success. This is particularly true of service providers who need to deliver new services to market with scale and cost-effectiveness. These are the issues CNS addresses. This type of network must be managed as a single system, something traditional network management solutions cannot do. To accomplish this, network and service management must solve data redundancy and synchronization issues, as well as security and application authorization issues.
Directories can provide built-in fault tolerance and location independence.
But CNS is more than a data model. It implements the data model on Microsoft Active Directory, and provides LDAP client services for accessing directory data. This common data model, accessed through standards such as LDAP, provide interoperability and scalability among services and management solutions from Cisco Systems and its ecosystem partners. However, management solutions that share common data or data stores, but still deploy redundant backend services or don't scale well will not satisfy customer needs. CNS 1.0 delivers core common infrastructure components for solutions from Cisco Systems.