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Art of Application-Centric Networking
The Art of
Application-Centric
Networking
According to Dimensional Research*, to and from these systems, and ensure that an
80 percent of workers bring personal devices to optimized solution with full application visibility is
work, and of those that do, 87 percent use them for in place to address performance concerns. The
work related activities. While businesses supporting Cisco® ISR-AX solution provides IT administrators
the bring your own device (BYOD) trend can greatly with the two major components in addressing
improve productivity and mobility, their IT teams these challenges.
will also experience a higher load of traffic on their
network that can negatively impact mission-critical The first component is Cisco Application Visibility
application performance and lower productivity. and Control (AVC), allowing IT to see more than
1000 applications running within the wireless
BYOD has changed the primary access for network tunnel, differentiating between applications and
connectivity, and as a result has affected traffic applying policies consistently. The second is WAN
flows across the network. Think about this use optimization—using Cisco Wide Area Application
case: Sarah comes to work, turns on her corporate Services (WAAS)—that accelerates applications and
laptop, and launches her email client. While she’s optimizes traffic on both the wired and wireless
walking to her staff meeting, she grabs her iPad, networks.
and begins scanning her email to check for urgent
messages. While she’s in her meeting, her phone Cisco has redefined the role of the router with
alerts her of an urgent email. Cisco ISR-AX, which currently offers the industry’s
only Layer 2 through 7 router with both network
This scenario happens every day with thousands of and application services. Cisco ISR-AX provides
employees—for email, web traffic, virtual desktop a comprehensive approach for ensuring applica-
infrastructure (VDI), and many other applications. tion performance, wherever applications may be
The issue is that traffic is run over the wired and hosted, regardless of transport and the devices that
wireless network, and because BYOD technology run the application. With Cisco ISR-AX, IT can run
is tunneled, traditional networks are unable to see applications faster, reduce bandwidth costs and
applications, apply consistent policies, and optimize latency by more than 50 percent, and simplify IT
the traffic. As a result, Sarah’s use of three devices with probeless visibility network wide.
can increase WAN consumption of bandwidth by
two to three times.
n To read more about this BYOD predicament
The bigger problem for IT will be the non-business- and the Cisco solution read this white
critical traffic BYOD will generate on the network
(e.g., iCloud, Facebook updates, Netflix streaming).
paper.
Because the wireless traffic is encrypted, IT will not
be able to tell the difference between applications n Find out how Quintiles, a global biophar-
like Citrix VDI and YouTube, which will also increase maceutical with headquarters in North
the load on the network and slow down business Carolina, has successfully rolled out BYOD
operations. to thousands of end users.
Enforcing Consistent Wired and
Wireless Policy and Optimization