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 QuotesRobert 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
About CiscoCisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the worldwide
technology leader that has been making the Internet work since
1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely
connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today. Discover
more at newsroom.cisco.com and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco.
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain
other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at
www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. All other trademarks mentioned
are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word
partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and
any other company. Many of the products and features described
herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered
on a when-and-if-available basis. This roadmap is subject to change
at the sole discretion of Cisco, and Cisco will have no liability
for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products
or features set forth in this document. This document is Cisco
Public Information.
RSS Feed for
Cisco: http://newsroom.cisco.com/rss-feeds
Gareth PettigrewCisco+1 (604)
647-2326 gpettigr@cisco.com
Lee
Davis Cisco
650-868-3036 leedavis@cisco.com
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024