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Cisco seeks to transform
network management with
intent-based innovations
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Cisco is to create a
network that anticipates
operational issues, stops
security threats in their
tracks and continues to
learn, adapt and protect.
O
ver 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 is introducing its second wave of
intent-based networking innovation, with
powerful assurance products spanning the
networking portfolio.
• In the data centre, 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
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David Goeckeler, Executive Vice President
Networking and Security Business at Cisco David Meads, Vice President Middle East
Africa at Cisco
for digital business. 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.” Center pilots. In the data centre, Cisco has
more than 14,500 Nexus 9000 customers,
with a 45% ACI attach rate.
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 trials with the new assurance
technologies. More than 1,100 customers are
deploying the recently announced Catalyst
9000 Series switches, with 150 running DNA
“Regional businesses are having to cope
with increased technological complexity,
lower budgets and the onslaught of
increased security threats and at the same
time continuously transforming their IT
infrastructure into an agile and scalable one,”
said David Meads, Vice President, Middle
East and Africa, Cisco.
“With corporate margins under pressure,
network management, together with
proactive and timely attention to network
bottlenecks, is non-negotiable for
organisations that are digitally transforming.
“Cisco’s latest suite of assurance
products will help our customers achieve
a higher level of automation with
increased certainty, allowing them to
confidently move at a faster pace without
compromising security policies.” n
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