After seeing the outages at Newark Airport and the impact they are having on air travel, I'm reminded of one of the key concepts we've been working on with our Cisco ThousandEyes customers: the critical importance of continuous network Assurance, particularly as it relates to maintaining ongoing peace of mind. After all, it's no longer a question of IF outages will occur...it's a question of WHEN. ⌛
When network intelligence and monitoring (Assurance) are deployed solely as tools to respond to outages, I compare it to buying a fire extinguisher: a necessary safety measure, but only useful after the fire has started. But what if we took it a step further and thought of Assurance as a platform? What if we focused on preventing the fire altogether as the network evolves and grows?
The big question for customers managing both owned networks (e.g., MPLS/SD-WAN) and unowned networks (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Internet) is this: Are you deploying visibility and Assurance technologies as tools for reactive firefighting, or as a platform for proactive network assessment, monitoring, migration, growth-and yes, crisis resolution as well?
Taking a platform approach, as many of our customers do, shifts the focus from reactive firefighting to proactive Assurance- ensuring continuous network reliability, safety, and growth. As an Assurance platform, ThousandEyes empowers organizations to identify tech debt, plan migrations and growth strategies (like MPLS to Internet for transport), maximize investments in Observability and APM technologies, adopt more SaaS and cloud-native applications, and implement best operational practices. By providing advanced issue detection, remediation, and optimization, it ensures every connected experience is seamless, resilient, and future-ready.
🤔 My two cents? Let's move beyond reacting to outages....let's prevent them altogether.
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