In today's hyperconnected digital economy, network transformation is no longer optional, it’s strategic. Whether you're refreshing infrastructure, rolling out AI-powered workloads, or expanding your cloud footprint, network operations (NetOps) teams are on the front lines, responsible for making it all work smoothly.
But change introduces risk. A single misstep during a network refresh or SaaS expansion can ripple into widespread outages, degraded performance, or AI workload disruption. That’s why forward-looking organizations, large and small, are turning to Cisco ThousandEyes to provide the visibility and assurance they need to transform effectively.
Cisco ThousandEyes is more than a monitoring tool. It’s your control tower across every phase of network transformation, from establishing baselines and monitoring implementation to validating success and optimizing performance long term.
Pre-implementation: Eliminate Blind Spots Before They Break Things
Before implementing infrastructure upgrades or deploying latency-sensitive AI applications, NetOps teams need a comprehensive view of current performance. In today’s hybrid environments, where SaaS apps, cloud services, and external ISPs play a central role, assumptions can be dangerous. Gaps in visibility may lead to broken dependencies, degraded user experience, or worse, unexpected downtime.
How Cisco ThousandEyes Helps
Cisco ThousandEyes gives you deep visibility into your digital supply chain, internal networks, external Internet service providers (ISPs), SaaS, cloud, and everything in between. It enables you to:
- Baseline performance across hops
- Spot latency, loss, and jitter
- Identify risks hiding at the edge or in third-party dependencies
- Flag areas likely to destabilize AI services or application performance
Why It Matters
Planning shifts the focus from guesswork to data-backed precision. Instead of waiting for users to flag performance issues after go-live, you mitigate risk upfront and build a stable, scalable foundation for future growth.
During Implementation: Maintain Stability Through Real-time Intelligence
Network refreshes, segmentation, and AI infrastructure changes often impact routing, traffic patterns, and application behavior. NetOps is expected to deliver change without disruption, a tall order in dynamic, distributed environments. This is the case even when the networks are controlled by third parties.
How Cisco ThousandEyes Helps
Cisco ThousandEyes provides ongoing, near real-time monitoring during change windows, giving you visibility across internal infrastructure, cloud paths, ISP transit, SaaS apps, and AI workloads. With proactive risk-based alerting and expedited root cause detection, you can:
- Validate service continuity as changes go live
- Quickly detect degradations and isolate root causes
- Track the availability and reliability of AI services in real time
- Keep IT leadership informed with actionable insights
- Collaborate with third-party providers through shared data
Why It Matters
Cisco ThousandEyes acts as a central hub to manage your ecosystem, giving you the confidence to execute at speed while protecting business-critical operations. Gain clearer insights, respond smarter and faster to issues, and enjoy a more predictable transformation experience.
Post-Implementation: Prove ROI and Stay Ahead of Future Disruptions
Once the network refresh is complete or AI workloads are online, expectations shift. Stakeholders want proof of performance gains, stable operations, and proactive risk management, especially as traffic patterns evolve and SaaS dependency grows.
How Cisco ThousandEyes Helps
With Cisco ThousandEyes, performance validation doesn't stop at deployment. It gives you:
- Before-and-after performance comparisons to demonstrate return on investment (ROI)
- Service level agreement (SLA) validation with cloud, SaaS, and ISPs
- Continuous optimization based on real user traffic
- Proactive issue detection to minimize user impact
Why It Matters
Modern networks don’t stand still, and neither should your monitoring strategy. Cisco ThousandEyes enables NetOps teams to stay agile, keep SaaS and AI applications performing at their best, and avoid reverting to reactive firefighting.
Moving Beyond Manual, Reactive Operations
Digital transformation isn’t a one-time event, it’s a continuous journey. Whether you’re supporting AI adoption, expanding hybrid work, or modernizing your WAN, Cisco ThousandEyes is your operational edge. It brings together end-to-end visibility, deep diagnostics, and intelligent insights, empowering NetOps to reduce risk at all key stages of transformation, accelerate time to value for new technologies, and sustain high performance across complex, distributed environments.
With Cisco ThousandEyes, you don’t just monitor. You assure. And that empowers you to modernize your networks with confidence.