Network visibility reinvented

Selling Cloud services is an opportunity to shift clients away from on-premises infrastructure towards a more scalable network architecture. But if you’re moving clients to the Cloud, you better make sure they can always access the Cloud. That means having deep visibility and control over network infrastructure so you can provide proactive service and keep clients connected. But not all network equipment or Cloud solutions offer the same level of visibility.

This past year has been a lesson in challenges and how to overcome some of the most difficult times many can remember. Data center and technology leaders had to scramble to leverage new technologies and solutions to stay ahead of the curve. It wasn’t easy, but many adopted new and innovating technologies to help modernize and innovate their business. This includes new security methods, greater levels of automation, and even robotics.

Depending on the organization, as much as 95 percent of network changes are still performed manually by enterprise IT. At the same time, IT is also responsible for digitizing their business, so IT groups have become increasingly constrained by this manual burden. Additionally, enterprise networks are often made up of devices from dozens of vendors which have been deployed over many years creating what’s often called “technical debt” – complicating matters even more.

Private networks are already a reality for a host of companies. As spectrum access becomes easier, LTE based private networks are looking to displace existing networks based on Wi-Fi or proprietary standards, solving a range of cost and quality issues. Private networks are typically deployed in business critical or mission critical scenarios. They may be improving industrial process control, increasing teamwork and customer service on theme parks, speeding up response times in emergency situations and many other applications. LTE offers the potential to dramatically increase the quality, ease the deployment and lower the total cost of private networks.