Application visibility, awareness, and context are key to ensuring network performance and security.
As we touched on in our last blog, the rapid digital transformation of enterprises brought on by COVID impacted not only network architectures and operations, but also spurred an explosion in the number and types of applications in use by businesses of all sizes.
Today’s business environment involves literally hundreds of complex applications, many of which contain multiple sub-applications carrying different forms of content, from video to email to e-commerce. Prioritizing these content types to ensure a uniform user experience without clogging up your network is a growing challenge for IT and NetOps.
That challenge is exacerbated by the increasing use of encrypted applications, making it nearly impossible to manage business-critical traffic flows while ensuring network security.
And lastly, not only are the number of applications growing, but the pace of change within those applications is increasing. A chat application today might be a video conferencing application tomorrow, spiking loads on a network that may not be prepared.
Combine all of this with ever-shrinking resources and ever-shorter deadlines and you have a complex challenge that must be approached from a holistic, yet efficient, perspective.
Today’s enterprise networks have three main requirements:
- Observability – Not just monitoring, but real-time visibility into network traffic with per-user contextual awareness – what application, what location, what device, etc.
- Control – Working beyond prioritization to seamlessly manage both network and application performance to ensure a positive QoE for all end users.
- Security – To enhance existing security infrastructure with detailed traffic analysis and threat mitigation in real-time, protecting both your network and your users.
Sandvine’s Enterprise Solutions address these three requirements with three easy to deploy and manage solutions:
Sandvine’s Enterprise Network Observability and Optimization Solution provides comprehensive network visibility, delivering actionable insights, application QoE, and performance alarms to protect performance. This unmatched level of visibility enables automated policy application to ensure optimum performance with minimal intervention.
Sandvine’s Enterprise Traffic Management Solution combines real-time traffic identification with automated traffic management to optimize flows for enhanced network performance without additional network spend.
Sandvine’s Enterprise Network Security Solution identifies cyber threats and automatically mitigates those threats, offloading traffic from your existing firewalls and thus improving throughput and performance.
To learn more about how Sandvine is enabling Enterprise network operators to analyze, optimize, and secure their networks, watch this video and contact us for more information and a demo.
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Topics: Quality of Experience, App QoE, App Quality of Experience, Enterprise, Enterprise Solutions
