- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced technology that helps networks evolve by predicting application issues before they happen. These are the details.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced technology that helps networks evolve by predicting application issues before they happen, which enables a new level of reliability and performance. Over the past couple of years, Cisco has been building and testing predictive software engines and early customer trials have shown high accuracy – thus helping IT teams drastically improve connected experiences.
Going forward, Cisco plans to deliver predictive technologies across its portfolio in integrated and easy-to-use SaaS offers, making Cisco predictive networks accessible to companies of all sizes.
Cisco has tuned and tested predictive models with customers across a variety of industry segments and incorporated advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to enable greater precision and ease of use. And Cisco’s predictive networks work by gathering data from a myriad of telemetry sources.
Once it is integrated, it learns the patterns using a variety of models and begins to predict user experience issues, providing problem-solving options. And customers can decide how far and wide they want to connect the engine throughout the network, giving them flexible options to expand as they need.
IT teams have been struggling to be proactive. And as they manage cybersecurity threats, hybrid work, hybrid cloud, etc., the stakes are high to ensure the best-networked experiences for employees and customers.
Having 24/7 uptime means everything for IT teams, businesses, and customers. And unplanned downtime and outages can interrupt employee productivity, customer service, and revenue. And 45% of IT leaders surveyed cited responding to disruptions as the top network challenge for this year
Beyond outages, the experience people get from their network connections has become business-critical as well. And people and businesses use and rely on applications for just about everything, and often an app is the critical first impression for customers.
KEY QUOTE:
“The future of connectivity will rely on self-healing networks that can learn, predict and plan. Our research for predictive networks has been tested and developed with customers, and early adopters are seeing major benefits saving them time and money. The industry has been waiting for secure, proactive networking and only Cisco can do it right.”
– Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO, Cisco
