Friday, May 26, 2006

CISCO AON for RFID

Cisco® Application-Oriented Networking (AON) is the foundation for a new class of network-embedded products and solutions that help converge intelligent networks with application infrastructure based either on service-oriented or traditional architectures. With Cisco AON products and services, organizations can embed a new class of application message-level intelligence into the network to better meet the underlying needs of applications for real-time visibility, security, event-based messaging, optimized delivery, and other core integration and deployment services. Cisco AON technology can natively understand the content and context of application messages such as advanced shipping notices, stock allocations, or purchase orders and can conduct operations on those messages in transit according to business policies.
RFID is exactly the type of network-based application in which the policy-driven infrastructure services provided by Cisco AON meet the challenges encountered in deploying enterprise-class solutions. Cisco AON uniquely integrates RFID event capture and intelligent message routing into the pervasive network, centrally coordinating the wide distribution of RFID capabilities throughout the network. The Cisco AON for RFID solution uniquely provides RFID tag data filtering, aggregation, and other services that manage, route, and secure RFID data all in the fabric of the network. As enterprise initiatives mature from early RFID pilots toward large-scale production deployments of RFID technology, the use of RFID tagging continues to proliferate. However, by filtering much of the tag data at the network edge, and by coordinating across disparate RFID deployments throughout the enterprise, data center applications avoid being flooded with unwanted information.
Cisco AON is designed to use existing investments in Cisco Systems® hardware. Enterprises that already own a Cisco integrated services router (ISR) or Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series switch can upgrade their current networking equipment to an RFID-capable system simply by adding an additional blade or module. These provide core Cisco AON services integrated with RFID filtering and reader management capabilities provided by ConnecTerra, a leading supplier of enterprise software for RFID and device computing.

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