GOOD AFTERNOON & WELCOME.
I am excited to be here today to INTRODUCE Cisco DNA Assurance which is the Next Chapter of The Network. Intuitive.
Let us start by looking at a Day in the Life of a Network Admin
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As per the definition on the Internet, Context is ….
In the Context of Networking, Context is
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Providing Visibility into Relationships between Users, Devices, Applications & Network with Granular Data & Time (Real-Time & Historical). -- with the ability to go back in time, and predict the future with predictive analytics.
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It can tell us the who, what, where, when, how …
The QUALITY OF THE NETWORK IS KEY TO a great User/Client & IT Experience..
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Cisco is taking context to entirely new level by showing all the interconnections between users, devices, things, applications and more -- with the ability to go back in time, and predict the future with predictive analytics.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, I feel it is worth taking a minute to understand context and why it’s so important.
Context is critical for IT and business. In a world where all things digital connect to the network, the network knows A LOT.
What is Context?
Visibility w/ Relationships
Granularity
Time
It can tell us the who, what, where, when, how …
Cisco is taking context to entirely new level by showing all the interconnections between users, devices, things, applications and more -- with the ability to go back in time, and predict the future with predictive analytics.
IT Challenge – Find the needle in the haystack
Over 100 places where things can go wrong between the user and application
It spending 4X time collecting data than resolving
Before, IT takes hours With DNA Assurance get to the root cause in minutes
How?
Breath and Depth:
DNA Center provides E2E Assurance – users, clients, applications and network
Portfolio offer broadest view of the network – routing, switching, wireless, security … plus client and app analytics ... continue to see how Cisco brings more and more into a single view (e.g, ISE, AppD, Service Now, etc.)
Granularity – everything as a sensor … Aironet 4800 additional radio, WiFi Analytics for IOS devices (client experience)
16 sources of data and growing, most other vendors only have a few ... continue to drive to broader granulatriy
Real-time Event driven telemetry … Infrastructure that pulls data when IT requires
More efficient network data capture through telemetry in real-time (instead of SNMP traps)
IT Challenge – Problem Replication
WiFi is the most difficult issue to resolve – unlike the wired with relative predictability, the air results more changing variables
Issues come and go with more rogue devices coming online
Before: WiFi Issues come and go, and if IT cannot replicate, they cannot resolve Now IT can time travel and see how the user experience was impacted – with a 360 view and go predict issue and proactively validate the experience
How?
Cisco gives full contextual view for up to 14 days
Years of Cisco learning on trends help determine issues about to impact users, so IT can get in front of them
New Aironet Active Sensor offer a better way to proactively validate air quality and user experience, especially for VIP and events
IT Challenge – Resolution
Before, IT needed continuous training on resolving issues Now they can leverage 30 years of industry experience and best practice to take action
How?
Guided remediation – seeing how many impacted and how to address issue – for wireless degradation to WAN bandwidth challenges … many time proactively getting alerts before they impact users.
Today, IT staff continues to turn over as a new generation of workers on board. We now offer a better way to provide knowledge transfer and help IT resolved issues faster with guided remediation.
As the network now connects all things digital, it can support operational work streams to support asset management and IoT
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This is the power of DNA Center Assurance. It take al the rich network data and puts context around it. Now, It can see a full picture on users, clients, applications and the network. This includes:
Onboarding and connectivity – think about all the times you needed to make multiple attempts to get on the network; once you were on, you didn’t notificy IT … but it would be useful for them know know if an AP is being oversubscribed
Visibility and performance – users assume it is the network impacting application, now you can validate it that is in fact the case, and resolve the issue ... perhpas the DNS server is limiting access.
Configuration compliance ... this is where intent and context work hand in hand. You set your policy, or intent, now you need to make sure it is enforced. This is critical when needing to maintain industry compliance.
Network Health ...which provides the BIG picture and helps IT know where to focus.
But even better is that through machine learning, we can also predict issues, so that IT is not chasing it’s tail, but rather addressing degration to minimize downtime and improve productivity
Extended quote from Manuel:
Houston Methodist Hospital, Manuel Ortiz III, Senior Wireless Engineer“DNA Center helps me find problems proactively, before users contact me. With a mostly wireless network, I’m able to find devices throughout the network and quickly solve any problems with the help of analytics. ”
Why Cisco?
Only Cisco is focused on delivering and true end-to-end solution for the enterprise that includes, security, analytics and automation all managed by a single user interface. No more product silos that don’t work together and slow down businesses.
Cisco is committed to designing its products around a best of breed integrated architecture (Cisco DNA). Intelligence that make Cisco networks more intuitive and capable of delivering the performance and agility that IT needs to support the digital business with confidence.
Cisco’s global, aware-winning services and support can help you get started today on your journey to a more intuitive network. THE NETWORK. INTUITIVE.
Our broad partner eco-system leverages the open and programmable capabilities of the new network, turning the network into an asset that creates innovative new revenue opportunities that add more business value.