Three Ways to Gain End-to-End Network Coverage and Visibility

Network operations teams face many challenges in ensuring optimal network performance and availability in today's complex and dynamic environments. These teams need to monitor and manage multiple devices, technologies, and vendors, while contending with huge amounts of data and significant complexity. How can your teams get a clear and accurate picture of your network performance and health?

The answer is not to add more network monitoring tools to your stack. In fact, this can make things worse. Many teams have hoped that having more monitoring tools would give them a clearer and more comprehensive view of the network. But instead of making their lives easier, these tools have added more complexity and chaos. When they’re running more tools, network operators and engineers must work with more interfaces, configurations, and data formats, which can make it hard to correlate and analyze information. These disparate tools also create more silos and blind spots, making it harder to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Ultimately, you end up spending more time and money on tools that don't deliver the visibility you need.

What you need is a single network observability and management solution that can provide these capabilities:

• Provide end-to-end coverage for all types of networks, devices, and services, regardless of the vendor or technology deployed.
• Correlate data from multiple sources and significantly improve root cause analysis, so you can pinpoint and troubleshoot problems faster and more effectively.
• Deliver visibility into your entire network infrastructure—including across the internal network you manage and even those third-party networks that you don’t control.

To dive deeper into why these capabilities are so critical and how to gain the visibility required, we developed a white paper entitled End-to-End Network Operations Coverage. This paper explains why network observability and management are critical for ensuring continuously optimized network delivery and operations. The paper also describes the key capabilities and benefits of a solution that can help you simplify operations in complex environments. By reading this white paper, you will learn how to address the following key requirements.

1. Address the demands of multi-vendor, multi-technology environments

Tool sprawl can create more complexity and risk. Various tools from different vendors often use distinct data taxonomies and architectures, which can complicate analysis. By leveraging a single solution that can handle all types of networks, teams can simplify their operations and reduce the risk of outages or network experience degradation. The paper reveals how a single solution can offer coverage of different types of networks, including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, cloud, wireless, and more, without requiring multiple siloed monitoring tools. Read the paper and you will appreciate the value of leveraging a common data model and architecture to eliminate inconsistencies and simplify analysis across the multi-vendor technologies that make up the network.

2. Eliminate network monitoring blind spots

Massive volumes of data can create network visibility gaps. By correlating data from multiple sources, such as SNMP, NetFlow, IP SLA, synthetic tests, and more, and applying root cause analysis, advanced solutions enable teams to identify and troubleshoot issues faster and more effectively. Teams can optimize network performance and operational efficiency by more quickly and accurately discovering and eliminating blind spots. With these capabilities, teams can dramatically  improve mean time to repair (MTTR) metrics and  better ensure compliance with service level agreements (SLAs).

3. Establish unified visibility and control

Adding more network monitoring tools to the environment increases operational risk and costs. Optimal solutions enable teams to gain full visibility into the health, performance, and availability of all network devices and services. They also enable teams to control their network from a single interface, which simplifies their operations and reduces human error. The paper reveals how one solution can provide a single pane of glass for monitoring the network experience from the end-users’ perspective and the health, performance, and availability of all network devices and services. You will also see how a single solution can help you configure, manage, and automate network tasks from a central location.

Know your network inside and out

Reduce complexity, boost efficiency, and ensure your network is transformation-ready with NetOps by Broadcom, the enterprise-grade observability and management solution for modern, heterogeneous networks. The solution offers end-to-end visibility, providing complete coverage of the networks you manage, and even those you don’t. NetOps is a flexible and comprehensive solution that works with any vendor, technology, or protocol. The solution can collect and analyze different network metrics from any point, from an on-premises site to the cloud. The solution can track diverse metrics, including utilization, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, errors, congestion, quality of service, and end-user experience. This end-to-end visibility can help you quickly and accurately detect and fix any problems, improve network performance, and maximize operational efficiency.

To learn more about how to simplify network observability and management in complex environments, download the white paper, End-to-End Network Operations Coverage, today.