For IT operations teams running modern networks, the work can be challenging and thankless. These teams don’t ever receive congratulatory messages from executives when a video conference operates flawlessly—they only hear complaints when those sessions are problematic.
Here’s another thing they won’t ever hear from their executive team: “Money’s no object, your team can spend as much as you want.” While these realities aren’t necessarily new, the challenges these teams confront have certainly continued to evolve and intensify.
These teams must continue to ensure service levels remain optimized at all times—in spite of the fact that networks keep getting more dynamic, more complex, and more highly reliant on diverse technologies and vendors. While demands and burgeoning complexity may feel limitless, the same can’t be said for staffing and budgets.
The trick is ensuring service levels for users remain constant and optimal, while minimizing the expenses associated with IT operations. Given the nature of modern networks, teams can’t make decisions solely based on the wide area network (WAN) resources they’re responsible for. Users are now highly reliant upon networks and services from third-party vendors. For example, a work-from-home user will be reliant upon a home Wi-Fi network and an ISP connection. IT teams can’t establish SLAs for these third-party environments, and they can’t directly monitor the internal workings of these networks.
Are users experiencing congestion issues because some users are streaming movies, there’s an issue with Wi-Fi, or there’s performance degradation on the ISP network? Many IT operations teams are currently contending with blind spots, unable to answer these questions. Consequently, it is difficult to gain the holistic visibility needed to make intelligent WAN optimization decisions.
Network Observability by Broadcom has been proven to help teams improve WAN performance and utilization, and in the process the solution has saved customers millions of dollars in network bandwidth expenses. The solution features DX NetOps by Broadcom. For years, DX NetOps has helped teams gain visibility across circuits and technologies from different vendors. With the product, teams can group devices, assess past performance, conduct statistical analysis, and make informed capacity projections.
Example of a capacity planning scorecard view
DX NetOps enables teams to gain end-to-end visibility of network paths, including across internally and externally managed networks. Teams can gain a holistic understanding of performance over time, so they can readily identify meaningful deviations from normal behavior and make intelligent capacity projections.
DX NetOps offers teams these vital capabilities:
By employing DX NetOps, teams can achieve the following benefits:
Ensuring optimized performance for business-critical, network-supported services is a vital mandate for today’s IT operations teams. These groups have to be able to meet this mandate, while managing budgets and making the most of the limited resources available.
With Network Observability by Broadcom, teams can gain the visibility they need to ensure optimized service levels, while reducing total cost of ownership. To learn more, be sure to watch our Small Bytes session, How to Use WAN Optimization to Uncover Major Cost Savings for Your Business.
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