YASTEST
- Mathematical modeling and contextual insights
represent the next major advancement in intent-based networking
revolution
- Waves of software innovation fuel evolution of
networking portfolio toward subscription-led model
- Cisco delivers an industry leading end-to-end
intent-based networking portfolio, which spans the data center,
campus, branch and edge
BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- Cisco today announced powerful assurance innovations across its
intent-based networking portfolio that will help IT teams shift
from reactive to proactive. It will address the 43 percent of time
IT spends troubleshooting, while making IT operations more
proactive, agile and automated. The software innovations represent
significant advancements in mathematical modeling and contextual
insights, accelerating Cisco's strategy to reinvent the network for
the digital era.
Over the past few years, the explosion of devices,
adoption of cloud, and exponential growth of security threats have
challenged current approaches for building and managing networks.
Cisco's vision is to create a network that anticipates operational
issues, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to
learn, adapt and protect. To realize this, Cisco is driving the
intent-based networking revolution by transforming the entire
network, from the data center and campus, to the branch and
edge.
Today, Cisco is introducing its second wave of
intent-based networking innovation, with powerful assurance
products spanning the networking portfolio.
- In the data center, the Cisco Network Assurance Engine uses
continuous verification of the entire network to help keep business
running as intended, even as the network changes dynamically.
- In campus and branch
networks, Cisco DNA Center
Assurance is delivering a new level of insight and
visibility to dramatically reduce the time and money IT spends
troubleshooting across wired and wireless environments.
- And, for customers with distributed IT
operations, the new Cisco Meraki Wireless
Health reduces mean time to remediate wireless issues
with rich analytics and insights.
"The network has never been more critical to
business success," said David Goeckeler, executive vice president,
Networking and Security Business at Cisco. "We're reinventing the
network ground up to deliver a secure and intelligent platform for
digital business. Today, we are taking another major step toward
that ambitious goal with intent-based networking innovations
designed to deliver contextual insights and assurance that will
help transform IT from reactive to proactive."
Cisco's intent-based networking portfolio
represents a fundamental shift away from the manual and
time-intensive methods by which networks are traditionally managed.
These intent-based networks capture and translate business intent
into network policies, and activate them across the infrastructure.
With the introduction of assurance capabilities, they can now
continuously verify the network is operating as intended.
Customers globally are embracing intent-based
networking. Nearly 200 customers are in early field trails with the
new assurance technologies, including Robert Bosch GmbH, REWE
Group, Houston Methodist Hospital and Scotiabank. More than 1,100
customers are deploying the recently announced Catalyst 9000 Series
switches, with 150 running DNA Center pilots. In the data center,
Cisco has more than 14,500 Nexus 9000 customers, with a 45 percent
ACI attach rate.
Innovation Spanning Data
Center and Enterprise Networking
Today, Cisco is introducing three powerful new assurance products
that further demonstrate how intent-based networking systems move
at the speed of digital business.
In the data center
network, Cisco is enabling always-on assurance through
the Cisco Network Assurance
Engine. By combining mathematically accurate models of the
network with more than 30 years of codified domain knowledge, Cisco
provides IT teams the ability to instantly pinpoint why and when
the network is not acting as intended, then offer suggestions on
how to address the issue. This comprehensive view into their
network helps enable IT teams to:
- Predict the Impact of
Changes: Make changes to the network faster and with more
confidence, catching human configuration errors before they cause
problems.
- Continuously Verify Network
Behavior: Proactively eliminate network outages and
vulnerabilities by continuously analyzing the state of the entire
network.
- Assure Security Policy and
Compliance: Reduce risk by assuring that security policies
are being applied consistently across the network, and ensure
policies are compliant with business requirements-every minute of
every day.
With ACI and Tetration, Cisco provides the ability
to translate application intent and activate those policies across
the network. Now, with the Network Assurance Engine, Cisco is
delivering the final element of intent-based networking - the
assurance of intent.
In the campus and
branch, Cisco is enabling 'everything as a sensor' and
aggregating intelligence from the network, application, client and
things to help provide IT with full context. These capabilities
will dramatically reduce the 43 percent of time that IT spends
troubleshooting and improve the experience for employees and
customers.
Cisco DNA Center
Assurance provides a 360-degree contextual view that
connects all the relationships of who, what, where, when, how.
Spanning wired and wireless environments, it delivers a complete
picture of what is happening between users and applications with
real-time, historical and predictive capabilities. DNA Center
Assurance helps IT teams address three major issues:
- Problem Isolation:
Get to the root cause in minutes-not days or weeks-by isolating
where exactly the issue happened.
- Problem
Replication: Go back in time to when an issue
occurred. IT can view a complete 360 snapshot of the status of the
network, user, device and application at the exact moment the issue
arose.
- Problem
Resolution: Proactively fix the issue through guided
remediation.
With Cisco Meraki
Wireless Health, IT also gains visibility and rich
analytics to troubleshoot wireless issues faster and deliver a
better user experience. Cisco Meraki uses a cloud-managed IT model
to automate operations, simplifying the complexity of IT. Now,
Meraki Wireless Health allows IT teams to quickly identify wireless
anomalies, find poorly performing access point and clients, and
provide actionable insights to improve the wireless experience.
Powered by network analytics and rich contextual
data, Cisco
Services offers new services to help customers
streamline the deployment of the new assurance solutions. From
advisory and implementation, through optimization and managed
services, Cisco and its partners are helping customers accelerate
their journey to truly intent-based networks.
Customer
Quotes
Robert Bosch
GmbH, Jan Holzmann, Team Lead
for Data Center Network Operations
"We are constantly bringing on new applications and expanding our
data center capacity as we expand our business. The Cisco Network
Assurance Engine helps enable a new level of quality for our
application migrations. With a detailed understanding of the policy
model and proactive verification of all changes, Cisco Network
Assurance Engine can help us greatly reduce the risk of production
outages and accelerate our timelines."
Houston Methodist Hospital,
Manuel Ortiz III, Senior Wireless Engineer
"DNA Center helps me find problems proactively,
before users contact me. With a mostly wireless network, I'm able
to find devices throughout the network and quickly solve any
problems with the help of analytics."
Axians Nordic, Erik Sohlman,
Senior Manager and CTO
"As a Cloud Service Provider, our business depends on network
availability and delivering on customer SLAs. We are always looking
for modern technologies to manage our multiple data centers and
remain an industry leader. Cisco Network Assurance Engine's
approach of 'always on assurance' for our network and services will
make our operating model more proactive and help enable us to
remain as the best-in-class service provider to our customers."
REWE Group, Hans Vasters,
Senior Network Architect
"Cisco DNA Center allows the networking team to focus on our core
projects and give more responsibility to the first line support
team. It lets our team be proactive when it comes to resolving
issues, before it becomes a problem to our users."
Scotiabank, Nicholas
Yurkovich Chief Network Engineer
"The more intuitive that I can make troubleshooting, the sooner I
can take the network out of the equation. With Cisco DNA Center
Assurance, the Scotiabank first line support teams can now take a
proactive approach to resolving wireless issues and the engineering
networking teams can work on growth and forward-looking
opportunities."
West Corporation, Tania
Mazza, Director, Network Engineering
"At West, we run critical communications infrastructure for our
customers, and as such, scale and speed are vital for our
operations. Using the change verification process, we see Cisco
Network Assurance Engine as a way to achieve higher levels of
automation with increased certainty, allowing us to confidently
move at a faster pace."
Availability
- The Cisco Network Assurance Engine is available
now, initially for Cisco ACI customers, with a free, 30-day,
no-commitment trial. Customers can purchase it via software
subscription.
- Cisco DNA Center Assurance is available now.
Customers can purchase it via the Cisco ONE subscription offer for
networking.
- Cisco Meraki Wireless Health is expected to be
available in early 2018. It will be included with the standard
subscription for Meraki Wireless Access Points.
Additional
Resources
- Executive
Blog: Intent-based networking takes a leap forward
with assurance for the enterprise (Scott
Harrell)
- Executive
Blog: Assuring the full promise of Intent-Based
Networking: Introducing the Cisco Network Assurance
Engine (Roland Acra)
- Executive
Blog: Meraki Wireless Health: Assuring a pristine
wireless experience (Todd
Nightingale)
- Feature
Story: The future of networking: Intent
- Facebook
Live: Jason Silva puts his senses to the test through
a series of intuition-focused challenges
- News
Release: Cisco unveils network of the future that can
learn, adapt and evolve (June
2017)
- Read
about: Cisco Intent-based Networking
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