SOLUTION BRIEF Managing Application Delivery by Network Intent For network operations professionals, quantitative and binary analysis is a familiar way of assessing network performance: 0-1, true-false, on-off, up-down. When issues with applications or services occur, network engineers rarely ask themselves the state of CPU or memory usage on each network device or the status of every network link. But end-user experience is more complex; it’s a whole range of qualitative conditions that go far beyond connected or disconnected. That means asking application-specific connectivity questions concerning latency, jitter, or other qualitative dependencies. For example, users may be able to access a critical web-based application, but performance is so slow that it impacts overall productivity or customer satisfaction. Should that application be one from the entire class of real-time, interactive multi- media applications (such as VoIP or streaming video) and any problems in these networks are magnified dramatically. Hence, while connectivity may exist, the quality of those connections can vary widely. In a survey by When thinking of application performance, we cannot think of uptime alone. Network AppDynamics, health is the entire spectrum between available and unavailable. In fact, in a survey by AppDynamics, 84% of respondents maintain that performance of business applications is more important than ever. Network support teams know full well that assuring services on the network is much more than verifying if devices and interfaces are “up.” 84% In today’s world, the network must have a complete understanding of the needs of the business services that run on to ensure high-performance application delivery and successful user experiences. Network Intent provides the means to assign quality to of respondents connectivity and allows network tools to use intended performance as a reference in maintain that the execution of all management and monitoring operational tasks. performance of To reliably support the desired performance of all business applications concurrently, business applications businesses require a network automation solution that can identify and enforce every is more important individual network service and its state in the context of its entire application portfolio. than ever NetBrain’s Intent-Based Application Assurance takes network management, monitoring, and automation a step further by encoding all the network requirements for each business application and then assuring full function across the hybrid network. This enables network operations teams to manage all application paths to preserve the application architects’ design intents and support the user experience. NetBrain PDAS Application Assurance As part of its Problem Diagnosis Automation System (PDAS), NetBrain’s Application Assurance capabilities reorients network management to support the connectivity needs of all of your business applications. Application Assurance augments the typical, but rudimentary, A-to-B path checks with Network Intents to provide a full assessment of the health of the network in the context of all business-critical applications. From one dashboard, you can check connectivity state, view topology, verify intents, compare traffic flows against best or ‘Golden’ paths for each application, and view history of every state or path change.