In an emerging world of hybrid work and cloud applications, Cisco is focused on ensuring end-to-end visibility for applications and for users wherever they may be. That's according to Todd Nightingale, Cisco's SVP and GM for enterprise networking and cloud.
Speaking at the Cisco Live 2021 virtual conference, Nightingale looked to the innovation coming from the recently acquired ThousandEyes networking monitoring platform.
ThousandEyes’ Internet and cloud intelligence platform expands visibility and insights into the digital delivery of applications and services over the Internet and the cloud. It enables organisations to visualise any network as if it was their own; quickly surface actionable insights; and collaborate and solve problems with service providers.
With the acquisition completed in August 2020, Cisco says it can now provide customers with an end-to-end view into the digital delivery of applications and services over the Internet, enabling them to pinpoint deficiencies and improve network and application performance across enterprise and cloud networks.
“ThousandEyes is well known for the power of Internet intelligence and their ability to monitor connectivity from user to application… We have embedded ThousandEyes agents directly onto switches, giving the visibility of ThousandEyes Internet intelligence right off of Cisco's [local area network (LAN)]. And that gives us […] visibility of every step to the LAN and the application that the user is running on their desktop or laptop. I can look at every hop through the Internet to the infrastructure as a service provider and all the way to the application,” he revealed.
In a hybrid cloud world, users working from home have to have the same experience, “and that’s exactly what we have done,” added Nightingale. “We have built in ThousandEyes endpoint agents, capable of providing the same level of insights, the same level of networking intelligence all the way to the user when they are working from home – not just premium users, but every user with unmanaged technology in their home. I can see what network they are connected to, what kind of experience they are having and again, every hop, all the way to the application.”
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