ThousandEyes + Cisco Catalyst 9000

Campus Service Assurance with Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches Video Transcript

Today's campus environments rely on an ever-complex web of digital services reaching across the global Internet. 

Every day, users access externally hosted applications, cloud services and multiple ISPs over hundreds of networks. 

But with no visibility over these networks and applications, it can take hours or even days to locate and fix problems, problems that directly impact your service outcomes. 

Ensuring service delivery on campus requires visibility off campus, end-to-end, from switch to SaaS and everything in between.

That visibility has arrived. 

Introducing ThousandEyes service assurance for Catalyst 9000, now part of your Cisco DNA Advantage software subscription for new and existing Catalyst 9000K customers. 

With ThousandEyes, you can see every network hop across the Internet to SaaS applications, your data center and cloud-based services. 

ThousandEyes vantage points are now included on your Catalyst 9000, so you can quickly and easily start seeing beyond your own network. 

With comprehensive insight across service providers, you can pinpoint issues fast and fix them or escalate them to the right party, so you can deliver the experience your users expect and your business depends on. 

The industry's best enterprise switch now has the industry's best SaaS service assurance solution: ThousandEyes and Catalyst 9000. 

Your view of the network just got a whole lot bigger.

Leveraging ThousandEyes with the Catalyst 9000 Video Transcript

When you manage a campus and branch network, your job is to deliver a top-notch digital experience, regardless of where the users are and where their critical applications are located. 

With ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents now hosted on your Cisco Catalyst switches, gain end-to-end visibility from your campus network to the Internet, SaaS, and cloud-based services.

In Cisco DNA Center, you can deploy the ThousandEyes app with just a few clicks. 

Then go to the ThousandEyes dashboard to set up your tests to monitor performance. 

The following tests are available with your Cisco DNA Advantage license: Network, DNS server, DNS trace, DNSSEC, HTTP server, FTP, and Voice. 

Specify the HTTP target URL you want to monitor and then select the agent that will run that test. 

The agents you set up are probing the target continuously at regular intervals. 

The timeline view lets you monitor service availability and performance over a period of 30 days.

Path visualization shows end-to-end network paths from the agents to test targets across any network, along with hop-by-hop network metrics like packet loss, latency, and jitter. 

ThousandEyes provides correlated visibility over multiple layers, application, network, Internet routing, and device layers.

See the context behind application performance for quick and easy problem isolation, remediation, and resolution. 

Use the Sharelink feature to take a snapshot of the problem and then share it with relevant stakeholders inside or outside your organization so you can work collaboratively to solve the issue.

This is just a sample of what ThousandEyes can do to help you deliver better campus connectivity, a modern WAN, and improve application experience for your users. 

Your Cisco DNA Advantage license now includes ThousandEyes Internet and Cloud Intelligence for your Catalyst 9300 and 9400 Series switches. 

Learn more at cisco.com/go/catalyst9000.