Unified Branch
What To Expect vs. Legacy
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Day 0: Deployment
Day N: Solution / Operation
Ongoing Maintainability
Troubleshooting
End-to-end visibility provided by ThousandEyes help troubleshoot and quickly pinpoint issues across the different products
Customer Support
Single point of contact for all products in the solution
Devices Supported; Brownfield Deployment Scenario
Hybrid support of both Catalyst and Meraki products for handling differing customer needs. Cater to backward compatibility needs and user preferences while also helping transition to a unified management independent of the hardware type.
Centralized Management
Single Platform Dashboard – command control for configuration & policy, monitoring and troubleshooting.
Solution Consolidation
No more separate point products. Full stack and unified. Ease of Meraki with the feature richness of Catalyst.
Customization by partners
Partners can build on the free Cisco- provided automation suite and help configure to customer-specific needs and provide managed services for security and other integrations. Our solution has the right extensible foundation, and partners can build on it to customize for different verticals.
Licensing
Single, unified and simplified licensing
Reference Design
Cisco Validated Designs for small, medium and large branches across different verticals. Equipment recommendations based on use case is included. Example: medium-sized healthcare deployment vs small retail.
Automation
Branch-as-Code approach to deployment; Cisco developed Terraform Provider for faster, reliable and consistent deployment, rollback and version control.
Configuration
Unified definition that eliminates redundant work across routing, switching & Wi-Fi domains and potential for error, and speeds up deployment.
Multisite Rollout
Accelerate network rollout. Deploy in 1 site and reuse the configuration YAML for quick rollout in other sites.
Unified Branch
What To Expect vs. Legacy
Roll-over or tap the steps below to see more details
Day 0: Deployment
Reference Design
Cisco Validated Designs for small, medium and large branches across different verticals. Equipment recommendations based on use case is included. Example: medium-sized healthcare deployment vs small retail.
Automation
Branch-as-Code approach to deployment; Cisco developed Terraform Provider for faster, reliable and consistent deployment, rollback and version control.
Configuration
Unified definition that eliminates redundant work across routing, switching & Wi-Fi domains and potential for error, and speeds up deployment.
Multisite Rollout
Accelerate network rollout. Deploy in 1 site and reuse the configuration YAML for quick rollout in other sites.
Day N: Solution / Operation
Devices Supported; Brownfield Deployment Scenario
Hybrid support of both Catalyst and Meraki products for handling differing customer needs. Cater to backward compatibility needs and user preferences while also helping transition to a unified management independent of the hardware type.
Centralized Management
Single Platform Dashboard – command control for configuration & policy, monitoring and troubleshooting.
Solution Consolidation
No more separate point products. Full stack and unified. Ease of Meraki with the feature richness of Catalyst.
Customization by partners
Partners can build on the free Cisco- provided automation suite and help configure to customer-specific needs and provide managed services for security and other integrations. Our solution has the right extensible foundation, and partners can build on it to customize for different verticals.
Licensing
Single, unified and simplified licensing
Ongoing Maintainability
Troubleshooting
End-to-end visibility provided by ThousandEyes help troubleshoot and quickly pinpoint issues across the different products
Customer Support
Single point of contact for all products in the solution