Cisco Brings Visibility and Insights to IT's Biggest Blind Spot: The WAN
March 07 2018 - 5:00PM
- Cisco delivers intent-based
networking for the wide area network (WAN) with new analytics and
assurance solutions.
- Cisco solutions provide the visibility and
insight that allow customers to quickly isolate and resolve issues
in the WAN.
- Cisco solutions provide deep learning
capabilities that can predict issues before they happen,
potentially saving organizations from experiencing costly
downtime.
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 07, 2018 (GLOBE
NEWSWIRE) -- 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(TM) 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
Insight
Today, 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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