The web is rapidly learning to be a economical and universal choice for connecting the widely distributed workforce, workplaces, and cloud applications that comprise the essence of the brand new normal enterprise. In response, ITOps is fast at the job rearchitecting the enterprise WAN to adjust to increasing reliance on cloud and SaaS applications via online connections from branches and home offices. However, ITOps teams are increasingly being challenged to provide consistent and reliable connectivity and application performance over networks they don’t directly control.

Network operations teams often carry the responsibility of proving the network innocent when something goes wrong. Application performance issues-such as slow response times or stuttering video-are assumed to be network problems often. With only minimal visibility beyond the original corporate network boundaries, identifying the primary cause of network issues or proving the network segments are functioning properly-the Meantime to Innocence-and pinpointing the specific factors behind application performance issues is frustrating or even impossible with current toolsets. To detect and remediate campus and internet routing problems, ITOps needs total visibility from campus to branch to applications to quickly isolate trouble spots if they reside on the enterprise network side, a ongoing service provider’s path, or the application form hosting side. They want deep observability to rapidly pinpoint the root-cause of performance issues in a multi-cloud environment before they impact business revenue and reputation.

Gain End-to-End Visibility with the Integration of Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes

The integration of Cisco SD-WAN with ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence enables IT to get deep insights from the enterprise campus across internet, cloud, and SaaS infrastructures. The integration enables rapid and scalable deployment of ThousandEyes vantage points on Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8200 Edge Platforms in addition to Integrated Service Routers (ISR) 4000 Series for the branch and campus WAN edge. Much like the Cisco Catalyst switching family , ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents is now able to run natively on those eligible Cisco routers with IOS XE network software stack (17.6.1) as a container application. Which means you don’t have for extra compute resources at each branch site for ThousandEyes ; eliminating the necessity for this expertise at the branch level in addition to reducing OpEx and CapEx to set up and manage any extra resources . Yet another leap in productivity results from the power for Cisco vManage to orchestrate the deployment and initial provisioning of ThousandEyes agents across all of the SD-WAN branch routers all over the world from the centralized console.

The benefit ITOps gains by operating ThousandEyes on routers may be the capability to activate vantage points across multiple paths to detect issues anywhere along the way from branch and campus endpoints to applications. By collecting multi-layer telemetry data from vantage points distributed through the entire internet, enterprise data centers, cloud virtual private clouds (VPCs), branch, and campus environments, ThousandEyes provides ITOps with detailed insights to pinpoint the foundation of issues to attain resolutions faster quickly.

 

Improving Application Experience with Network Visibility

Organizations be determined by SaaS applications-such as Office 365, Salesforce, and WorkDay-for many critical business workflows. It’s vital that you be able to gauge the reachability and performance of SaaS platforms in addition to hybrid and internally operated applications interconnected with SD-WAN.

ThousandEyes on Cisco SD-WAN edge routers can offer deep insights into how software-defined networks impact application performance throughout SD-WAN and cloud migration phases. ThousandEyes analytics helps ITOps make data-driven decisions which WAN providers to leverage within re-architecting the network to optimize SaaS application availability and performance. With Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms in branch sites, ITOps can measure and monitor branch office KPIs like network availability easily, application response times, and network as sites hook up to the SD-WAN latency, assisting to ensure a smooth rollout of services.

Distributed sites are operational on the SD-WAN once, Cisco ThousandEyes provides assist with better manage SLAs with ISPs and providers by correlating application performance with SD-WAN network overlay and internet underlay metrics. Furthermore, ThousandEyes’ capability to measure and visualize middle mile providers like cloud security gateways assists in evaluating their effect on application performance. The union of SD-WAN ThousandEyes and routers provides underlay visibility for overlay fabrics such as for example site-to-site tunnels, data center to VPC/VPN endpoints, branch to cloud proxy tunnel endpoints, and branch to SaaS. And for enterprises moving to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, the combined solutions ensure the reachability and optimal connectivity to cloud-based security services-such as Cisco Umbrella-to accelerate the transition.

Deeper Observability Across Networks for Optimal Digital Experiences

The integration of Cisco SD-WAN and ThousandEyes helps it be possible-and even easy-for ITOps to optimize digital experiences for the workforce and enhance the efficiency of internal business systems by monitoring and validating the performance of distributed applications, over any network. By integrating ThousandEyes with Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco enables enterprise ITOps to visualize and manage their digital experience over the internet, cloud, and SaaS while minimizing CapEx and OpEx investments.

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