Cisco Brings Visibility and Insights to IT’s Biggest Blind Spot: The WAN
March 07 2018 - 5:00PM
Cisco today announced new innovations built to bring visibility to
IT’s biggest blind spot: the wide-area network (WAN). Made up of
disparate networks outside of the control of IT, the WAN connects
employees to applications, no matter where those employees might
be. The fragmented nature of the WAN means that IT often has
limited ability to specifically determine problems and get
real-time information. Now, Cisco is helping IT by providing the
capability to forecast WAN problems before they happen, while
quickly isolating and fixing issues when they do occur.
Over the past few years, the rise of multicloud IT environments
has exacerbated the traditional complexity of the WAN and magnified
its challenges. A recent IDC study (Worldwide SD-WAN Survey Special
Report September 2017) discovered that almost 3 out of 10
organizations considered network outages to be a top WAN concern,
with the same number stating they need better visibility and
analytics to manage application and WAN performance.
Building on the company’s recent push toward intent-based
networking, Cisco is driving this network revolution to the WAN.
Today, Cisco is introducing innovations to provide IT with the
vital visibility and insight into the WAN that will help keep
businesses up and running:
- Cisco® SD-WAN vAnalytics
provide IT with visibility, forecasting for applications and
bandwidth planning, “what-if” scenarios, and actionable
recommendations.
- Cisco Meraki™ Insight helps
IT administrators optimize the end user experience by providing
valuable understanding into WAN and SaaS application performance,
significantly reducing the time it takes to isolate and resolve
issues.
“We have set an ambitious goal for ourselves of transforming the
entire network, from campus to branch, data center to edge,” said
Scott Harrell, senior vice president and general manager,
Enterprise Networking at Cisco. “The WAN is a vital part of the
network and is one of the toughest to manage. As we bring insight
into the WAN with these new innovations, we get closer to
delivering end-to-end intent-based networking to help our customers
eliminate downtime and save money.”
Cisco provides a full portfolio of services to help accelerate a
customer’s journey to intent-based networking for the WAN. Services
experts help customers create a customized roadmap for success,
speed deployment, and maximize network performance.
Cisco SD-WAN vAnalytics Today, Cisco is
introducing Cisco SD-WAN vAnalytics (based on Viptela® technology).
Built as a cloud-based SaaS solution, the technology provides
comprehensive data, analysis, and corrective actions across the
WAN, including branch offices, multicloud endpoints, and multiple
service providers. Using vAnalytics, customers can forecast how
potential policy changes to the WAN could affect application
performance. It can also provide intelligent recommendations about
how to deliver optimal application experiences. For example, with
vAnalytics, organizations can now better understand how a rollout
of IP-enabled security cameras or a cloud-based application across
multiple branch offices could affect WAN infrastructure. vAnalytics
can help enterprises identify the stress points and necessary
policy changes, helping customers avoid technology growing
pains.
"With over 600 branch offices and more than 5,000 employees, we
rely on cloud applications and an always connected workplace to
serve our customers,” said Peter Castle, senior network engineer,
Reece Ltd. “Our business requires a secure, scalable, and
high-performance WAN. With vManage, we can centrally deploy branch
applications and services rapidly, and we have been able to
dramatically improve branch availability and bandwidth utilization
with the rich analytics this platform provides. We are looking
forward to the additional functionality we will be able to achieve
with the even richer application visibility that vAnalytics will
provide us."
Cisco Meraki InsightToday, Cisco Meraki is also
announcing Meraki Insight, a new tool integrated into the Meraki
dashboard to help IT maintain a better end-user experience. The
solution provides end-to-end visibility with application and WAN
performance analytics. With Meraki Insight, customers can
understand and troubleshoot both internal and external issues that
can contribute to poor user experience for applications hosted in a
remote data center or in the cloud. Meraki Insight helps IT achieve
faster time to resolution for performance issues by more accurately
pinpointing the source of the problem.
“At Extra Space Storage, as we move more and more of our
business-critical applications to the cloud, it is imperative to
maintain a high-performance network,” said Jacob Stimpson, senior
analyst, IT Business at Extra Space Storage. “Meraki Insight gives
us the network and SaaS application visibility we need to quickly
remediate issues and ensure a great end-user experience."
Availability
- Cisco SD-WAN vAnalytics is available now via a Cisco SD-WAN
license tier.
- Cisco Meraki Insight is expected to be available in Cisco’s Q3.
It will be available as a separate license.
Additional Resources
- Executive blog: Extending Intent-Based
Networking to the WAN
- News release: New Predictive Analytics,
Assurance Capabilities Advance Cisco's Strategy to Reinvent the
Network for Digital Business (January 2018)
- 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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