The CNC SR-MPLS Core Networking Guided Lab is a comprehensive and innovative physical environment that models a WAN Core Network and demonstrates several aspects of Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller (CNC). CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Controller for Core networks. CNC allows an operator to create and manage VPN and Transport services with diverse SLAs, such as disjointness, bandwidth awareness, or low latency. This briefing will give you an overview of the CNC lab environment, discuss our capabilities, and develop a high-level plan to meet your needs.

As modern networks have grown in complexity and scale, they require more stringent tolerances and demanding services, which has spawned the need for a more straightforward and optimized method of transmitting data. And as 5G becomes more widely adopted, such latency standards will only become more desirable. Moving to a next-generation Network Transport based on Segment Routing enables organizational agility and unprecedented control over network path optimization and end-to-end Service Level Agreements (SLA). This briefing is intended to be used for architecture validation, proofs of concepts (POCs), demonstrations, and functional and interoperability testing.