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Cisco Connects and Protects with New Cloud Tools Across Networking,
Security and Operations to Provide Greater Visibility and Control Over

Networks

Cisco announced new innovations in
cloud-managed networking, delivering on
its promise to help customers simplify
their IT operations. With powerful new
cloud management tools for industrial
IoT applications, simplified dashboards to
converge IT and OT operations, and flexible
network intelligence to see and secure all
industrial assets, Cisco delivers a unified
experience that provides true business
agility. "The most effective way to manage
growing complexity and provide more
insight into business operations is through
reliable connectivity and complete visibility
across an organization’s operations and
assets,” said Vikas Butaney, SVP/GM, SD-
WAN, Cloud Connectivity, and Industrial IoT
Networking, Cisco. “A strong partnership unified security posture across the entire data. As the first network visibility solution
between all technology teams – security, network. to support OpenTelemetry, ThousandEyes
networking, and operations – is essential. • Secure Equipment Access Plus makes it is making it possible for customers to
With these new innovations, we're excited to easier for IT and OT teams to remotely interconnect cloud and Internet intelligence
equip organizations with the tools needed deploy, manage, and troubleshoot across a wide range of solutions for
for a unified, cloud-delivered approach connected equipment. This service unmatched data correlation and insight.
that brings the power of the enterprise IT now provides access to any connected With ThousandEyes OpenTelemetry, Cisco
network to scale and secure the industrial equipment with IP connectivity, so is enabling true end-to-end correlated
edge.” operations teams can run native insights across multiple domains, from
Simplified IT/OT for Industrial Networks applications on their workstations to user to application, for optimal digital
Organizations are extending their networks access remote assets more easily. experiences.
to new places. They need to connect core These innovations, along with Cisco’s Unified SASE Solutions for all Cisco SD-
enterprise operations to industrial spaces, extension of its portfolio of its Catalyst WAN customers
spanning utility grids, manufacturing industrial wireless and switching portfolio, To simplify network security and policy
facilities and transportation networks. provide more common tooling and data so management, Cisco’s unified SASE
They are also prioritizing sustainability IT and OT teams can work more efficiently solution, Cisco+ Secure Connect, now
and resiliency in their operations, driving together to reduce downtime of critical supports integration into Cisco SD-WAN
the need for greater visibility across their infrastructure, drive greater business fabrics using Viptela technology. Cisco SD-
environments. The distributed nature of productivity and efficiencies, and enhance WAN customers now have access to fast,
these operations makes these networks overall safety and security. secure private applications and internet
complex to manage, and as these industries ThousandEyes OpenTelemetry Simplifies access, enabling them to deliver a secure
digitize their assets, the cybersecurity IT Data Intelligence experience to their employees anywhere.
attack surface grows. Cisco is introducing Having the relevant data at the right time This unified solution converges networking
new cloud services in its IoT Operations is necessary to optimize users’ digital and security to provide customers with
Dashboard to increase industrial asset experiences, but data may not always be easy a single platform and a streamlined
visibility and securely manage assets from to collect and correlate. To help customers operational model that simplifies and
anywhere. tackle this challenge, Cisco ThousandEyes scales the visibility, management and
• Cisco Cyber Vision is now integrated with now supports OpenTelemetry, the open- control over a hybrid work environment.
Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard to grant source framework and industry standard This converged operating model also
IT and operations teams full visibility into that partners, customers and providers rely provides IT teams with enhanced visibility
IT and OT devices to manage threats on to generate, collect, process and export and control over the network, making the
across the organization, providing a cloud-native and distributed telemetry experience easy for them to manage.

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