is your network ready for innovation?
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Is Your Network Ready for
Innovation?
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Is Your Network Ready for Innovation?
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?What new network capabilities
have you been asked to support?
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What’s In Your Network?
Before taking on these larger innovations, it’s important to understand what is in the network and what it’s capable of supporting.
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Proactively identify
risk
Identify obsolete
devices or software
Align budgets with business
priorities
Deliver consistent and
reliable network services
IT departments are supporting an average of 1,000 devices per shift.1
1. Gartner, “Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Endpoint Backup”
More Devices to Manage
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Mobile coupons
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Other marketing
technologies
Customer Case Study
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Obsolete Devices
Architectural Strategy
Performance and Capabilities
Security Risks
They started by reviewing their underlying infrastructure.
Customer Case Study
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??How ready are you to add new
capabilities to your network today?
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Tools for Planning Ahead
There are tools that can help you forecast and plan. Network Monitoring and Performance dashboards can pull together key information to help make projections about your network needs.
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Network Performance Analytics
Network performance analytics provide visibility into network performance and enable you to quickly translate network data into actionable business intelligence.
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Analytics and Modeling
Use data to predict the impact that a change will have on the network before implementing it. With this information, make fact-based decisions about your network.
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Identifying Noncompliant Devices
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Operations Efficiency& Automation
Compliance & ChangeManagement
Operations Support& Lifecycle Management
Architecture Strategy& Planning
Security & Risk Analytics& Modeling
Six AreasYou Need to
Address
An Optimized Network is the Foundation for
Business Innovation & Outcomes
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Resources
Before & After Network Optimization Infographic
Cisco NOS