Cisco AVC is a solution that uses multiple technologies found in the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers, Cisco Integrated Service Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2), and network management tools, which together provide a powerful and pervasive integrated solution for discovering and controlling applications. Network administrators can gain visibility into applications running in their networks and their performance, and apply policy to improve application performance and control network resource usage.