Real-time Visibility for SD-WAN Deployments
Enterprises are increasingly leveraging cloud-based applications and embracing the mobility of a growing distributed workforce. As evolving business needs have dramatically expanded to include software as a service (SaaS) and cloud, the prospect of rising transport costs and suboptimal application performance is driving enterprises to move to wide area networks (WANs) that are software-defined, Internet-centric, and architected for optimal interconnection with cloud and external services.
A software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) can help make enterprise networks cloud ready, more cost-efficient, and better suited to delivering quality digital experiences to customers and employees. However, ensuring that an SD-WAN delivers on expectations requires a modern approach to monitoring that addresses network visibility and application performance equally well.
Simple edge-to-edge performance monitoring is no longer enough. Today’s IT and network operation teams need correlated visibility into network underlay and overlay paths and performance metrics, web servers, end-user experience, and application-layer performance, as well as routing issues and Internet outages. ThousandEyes uniquely offers an unmatched set of vantage points to meet the full spectrum of planning and operational visibility needs to help you ensure WAN performance and empower the employee and customer digital experience.
Visualization of the Modern WAN
Why Now for SD-WAN Monitoring?
Enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-based services, such as SaaS applications, which in turn increases reliance on the Internet to deliver WAN traffic. Use of traditional Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) services makes sub-optimal use of costly backhaul WAN bandwidth given that many critical applications and services are no longer internal. As a result, enterprises are migrating to hybrid WAN architectures and SD-WAN technology that combines direct Internet access (DIA), IP VPN tunnels, and traditional MPLS circuits.
Over the last several years, a robust market of SD-WAN vendors and managed SD-WAN providers has risen to meet this need. Analysts predict that adoption of SD-WAN solutions and associated network monitoring capabilities will become nearly ubiquitous as enterprises refresh their branch office routers over time.
Comprehensive Visibility for WAN Transformation
ThousandEyes uniquely offers an unmatched set of vantage points to meet the full spectrum of planning and operational visibility needed by ITOps teams to assure WAN performance. With ThousandEyes, you can stay on top of employee and customer digital experience using correlated, continuous, and granular network performance data. Plus, ThousandEyes Internet and cloud intelligence has been natively integrated into Cisco SD-WAN Routing Platforms, enabling end-to-end visibility from WAN edge to all critical areas of your business—so you can deliver an optimal digital experience for every user to any application over any network.
Enterprise Agents
Enterprise Agents are deployed in enterprise campuses, branch offices, hubs, virtual private clouds, and virtual networks to monitor WAN connectivity to the cloud and SaaS applications. They provide visibility into underlay performance between SD-WAN nodes or cloud-based security gateways, overlay performance and policy routing, and performance monitoring between branch and SaaS/internal applications—offering a comprehensive monitoring solution.
Cloud Agents
Cloud Agents are pre-deployed and are connected to Tier 1, 2, and 3 ISPs, broadband service providers, and regional data centers of major cloud providers. Use Cloud Agents to compare ISP performance for branch and site connectivity, to baseline local SaaS application performance, or to evaluate reachability and customer digital experience over the Internet.
INTERNET INSIGHTS™
Internet Insights uses collective intelligence to detect Internet outages, and can be used to correlate WAN performance to macro Internet issues, to quickly communicate issues to customers, and to work with service providers for effective troubleshooting and problem remediation.
ThousandEyes SD-WAN Visibility in Action
Assure sound readiness audits, architecture planning, and deployment, as well as efficient operations, with insight into end-to-end SD-WAN underlay and overlay performance with visibility from ThousandEyes.
Why ThousandEyes?
Readiness Through Operations
Use performance metrics to make architecture decisions, select providers, establish SLAs, to identify root causes and effectively resolve service performance issues.
Comprehensive Vantage Points
See from endpoint devices for remote workers, internal networks for branches, and regional Internet locations for rapid MTTI.
Multilayer Correlation
Understand underlay and overlay and how metrics such as jitter, latency, and packet loss, relate toweb servers, user experience, app-layer performance, as well as Internet outages.
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