INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
David Meads,
Vice-President
– Middle East
Africa, Cisco
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
behaviour: Proactively eliminate
network outages and vulnerabilities by
continuously analysing 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.
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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% 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 and 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 points 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 optimisation and managed
services, Cisco and its partners are helping
customers accelerate their journey to truly
intent-based networks. n
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