By Jeff Colburn, Enterprise Networking Solutions Architect

Proper visibility into the network presents several benefits. Unlike other Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) tools that passively await notification from network appliances, Cisco ThousandEyes provides active monitoring to identify issues before they impact users. It pinpoints failures and performance degradation by generating synthetic traffic tests between agents.

In addition, Cisco ThousandEyes moves beyond the network boundary to measure the user’s digital experience. It quickly pinpoints whether the failure or performance degradation is network or application related. 

Some of the benefits of implementing Cisco ThousandEyes to provide greater network visibility include:

• Reduced Mean Time to Repair – Improved Root Cause Analysis and quicker issue resolution.
• End-to-End Visibility – Path visibility across third-party services and cloud environments.
• SD-WAN Path Performance – Complete hop-by-hop path and performance visibility for the underlay transport and overlay tunnels.
• Anomaly Detection – Identify unusual behavior and potential threats.
• Application Performance Monitoring – Measure user experience from geographically diverse locations utilizing cloud agents.
• Improved Network Migrations – Snapshot network performance before and after network changes to measure impact.
• Certificate Tracking – Track the expiration of digital certificates.
• Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics – Customizable dashboard with historical data analysis.
• Flexible Deployment – Cisco ThousandEyes Agents may be deployed on hosts and network appliances. In addition, hundreds of ThousandEyes Cloud Agents are dispersed across the globe.

To learn more about how we can enable your agency to have greater network visibility, please visit https://presidiofederal.com/capabilities/digital-infrastructure/.