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Cisco seeks to transform
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intent-based innovations
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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. announced Catalyst 9000 Series switches,
with 150 running DNA Center pilots. In the
data centre, Cisco has more than 14,500
Nexus 9000 customers, with a 45% ACI
attach rate.
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. “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.
To realise this, Cisco is driving the intent-
based networking revolution by transforming
the entire network, from the data centre and
campus, to the branch and edge.
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
for digital business. We are taking another
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David Goeckeler, Executive Vice-President
Networking and Security Business at Cisco
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 trials with the new
assurance technologies. More than 1,100
customers are deploying the recently
“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.”
Innovation spanning data centre and
enterprise networking
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 centre 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.
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