According to Rich Plane, CTO of Cisco Customer Experience, five years from now, network operations teams will be much more effective at doing what their organizations need them to do. They will be aligned with the enterprise business.
In CISCO’s 2019 Global Networking Trends Survey, IT leaders and network managers were asked how they would classify their network operations, from reactive network to business-optimized network.
The result is that as of today, only 23% are considered predictive or optimized for the business, and 71% plan to be there in two years.
This data highlights the urgency for organizations to prepare for the growing demands of the network.
Here are his predictions on how this will happen.
End-to-end warranty:
Network operations teams will be able to perform predictive problem detection and root cause failure analysis on any client, device or any business service, hosted anywhere, and quickly determine if the network is the cause of any service performance degradation.
Bringing business and IT together:
Network operations will be able to rebalance their focus from being almost exclusively involved in monitoring and troubleshooting the network to having an external focus on the business and how the network can best meet its needs.
New operational functions will be established with the understanding of business and application requirements in network policies.
NetOps and SecOps operate in tandem:
NetOps and SecOps teams will develop integrated and optimized workflows, enabled by data exchange, automatic transfers and interactions between platforms and tools.
NetOps extends cloud monitoring:
As multi-cloud enterprise services become the norm, NetOps teams will extend visibility and predictive monitoring across WANs and public networks and to the cloud point of presence.
To gain even greater insight, enterprise IBN systems will begin to integrate service provider data and cloud provider systems to ensure a continuous quality of experience for cloud services.
Model-based change management:
More advanced NetOps processes, such as “what-if” analysis of any changes made to the network, will extend beyond the data center and become pervasive.
Autonomous and self-correcting workflows:
Some less impactful workflows will be fully automated. This will allow the network to take corrective or lifecycle management actions without human operator intervention.
The result of this data-driven, intent-validated approach will provide much higher levels of service continuity due to the minimization of errors.
Don’t hesitate, ask us!
We present a next-generation network operations framework.
To help prepare for a future of network operations driven by an intent-based network, Cisco Customer Experience technology experts have created a framework that provides strategic guidance, best practices, validated designs, proven processes, and recommended adjustments. At the heart of this model are three critical process areas: lifecycle management, policy management, and security management.
A new mindset: managing the network controller.
One of the most profound changes in network operations will be the shift in focus from the device to the controller. Until now, network administrators have typically provisioned and collected network information by logging into devices. With automation models, administrators will focus on managing the controller, integrations and processes in relation to the controller. The more an organization can embrace this change, the faster it can improve service quality, cost, agility and security.
Life cycle management
Policy management
Trends in network operations-2020 global Networking
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