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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In-store targeting

Mobile coupons

Digital signage

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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Network Health

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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

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