SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
- IT can easily segment and secure networks with intuitive,
automated policies.
- Cisco DNA Center and Cisco DNA Spaces now provide greater
insights into IoT endpoints.
- Cisco SD-WAN integrated with Cisco Umbrella, helping customers
evolve towards a SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)
architecture.
Cisco Live 2020— Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new
intent-based networking solutions to help optimize business and
network operations. As organizations face mounting challenges to
deliver consistent and positive digital experiences, Cisco is
driving networking advancements to keep customers connected,
productive and secure. The new innovations, focused on simplifying
automation and providing IT and business insights, will enable IT
teams to be agile, while staying closely aligned with business
objectives. This alignment has never been more important than in
today's dynamic business environment.
"In today's everchanging world, it is critical for a business's
network to be in tune with its strategic goals, whether that's
supporting and securing a remote workforce, accelerating expansion
to the cloud, or driving business transformation," said
Scott Harrell Senior Vice President
and General Manager of Cisco's Intent-based Networking Group. "With
today's announcement, Cisco is helping IT rapidly roll out advanced
networking and security capabilities by simplifying and automating
segmentation and cloud-based security at scale. We're delivering on
our promise to build a networking platform that continues to
deliver innovation to help customers, no matter where they are on
their intent-based networking journey."
Cisco is providing advanced automation capabilities to drive
better user experiences, while simplifying processes for IT.
Automation has become foundational to increasing IT efficiency,
enabling IT teams to become increasingly flexible and proactive
while reducing the amount of time simply maintaining the network.
New automation innovations include:
- Cisco SD-WAN Innovations: Cisco SD-WAN powered by
Viptela now offers complete cloud-native security through the
integration with Cisco Umbrella to deliver protection to
enterprises against major web attacks arising from SaaS and
Internet access. Cisco Umbrella offers secure web gateway (SWG),
DNS-layer security, firewall, and cloud access security broker
(CASB) functionality in one integrated cloud service. With
automated provisioning and simplified licensing, Cisco SD-WAN
unified with Cisco Umbrella is fast to deploy and easy to consume
while delivering an optimized user experience and the best security
protection. This convergence of security and networking is a
crucial step for customers as they move towards a SASE
architecture. Other new SD-WAN innovations include support for
multicast and integrated voice and unified communications.
- Cisco User-Defined Networks: With Cisco User-Defined
Networks, IT staff can provide end-users control of their own
wireless network partition through Cisco DNA Center. End-users have
the ability to securely onboard their devices, as well as control
which devices can connect to their own personal network partition
through the User Defined Network mobile app.
Cisco is expanding insights to previously unmonitored devices,
granting IT the ability to drive more efficient segmentation and
better manage IoT devices. Network segmentation – the act of
dividing the network into smaller parts to improve performance and
security - has traditionally been a difficult task, particularly in
environments with an evolving and diverse ecosystem of IoT
endpoints. To help solve for this challenge, Cisco is
introducing:
- AI Endpoint Analytics: With AI Endpoint Analytics, Cisco
DNA Center will identify previously unknown endpoints at scale,
then use various contextual sources and artificial intelligence to
logically group them. With this information, IT can create the
basis for scalable, automated policies.
- Group-based policy analytics: Cisco DNA Center can
analyze traffic flows between groups of endpoints to design
policies that can be used as the basis for proper
segmentation.
Today's wireless networks are adding immense business value, not
just through the experiences they enable, but through the
behavioral insights they provide. Cisco's indoor location services
platform, Cisco DNA Spaces, is adding new capabilities to extend
visibility and provide information to businesses as they look to
maintain safe physical spaces.
- Cisco DNA Spaces for Return to Business: Cisco has
added real-time and historical analysis tools to the platform,
designed to help businesses monitor workspaces to meet social
distancing guidelines. Customers can leverage built-in apps to
monitor real-time density in buildings and analyze how buildings
are being utilized. This information is critical as businesses aim
to help keep people safe, while making workspaces more effective
and efficient.
- Indoor IoT Services: Cisco DNA Spaces introduces the
industry's first Indoor IoT-as-a-Service offering on WiFi-6 access
points to help customers rapidly and cost-effectively deploy indoor
IoT applications at scale. Cisco DNA Spaces simplifies activation,
configuration and management of a wide number of supported IoT
devices, including support for Bluetooth (BLE) devices. Through
Cisco's wide ecosystem of industry partners, Cisco DNA Spaces
enables asset tracking, environmental monitoring of employee
safety, space utilization, room finding and other use cases across
healthcare, workspaces, retail, education, manufacturing and
hospitality verticals.
Cisco's intent-based networking portfolio is designed to deliver
consistent, ongoing innovation to customers. Through software-based
platforms, built on industry-leading hardware, Cisco can provide
the flexible, secure network a business needs to drive business
transformation and stay resilient in uncertain times.
Cisco DNA Center and Cisco DNA Spaces innovations announced
today will be available in the summer of calendar year 2020. Cisco
SD-WAN innovations are available today.
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Intent-Based Networking Innovations: 5 New Ways Cisco
Helps IT Run Faster and Smarter by Prashanth Shenoy, Vice President of Marketing,
Enterprise Networking and Mobility
- Blog: Cisco is Building a Bridge to Secure Access Service Edge
by Jeff Reed, SVP of Product, Cisco
Security Business Group and Scott
Harrell, SVP and GM, Cisco Intent-based Networking
Group
- Visibility-Driven Segmentation At-a-glance
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