1. Introduction to ThousandEyes

2. Featured speakers
Alex Marcotte
Technical Solutions Architect
Syed Hassan
Technical Solutions Architect
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• ThousandEyes Introduction
• Demo
– Supporting a Remote Workforce
– Digital Experience Monitoring
– ThousandEyes Internet Insights
• Q&A

4. About ThousandEyes
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We empower companies with Internet
and cloud intelligence to see,
understand, and improve digital
experiences over any network.
Routing
User App
End-to-End Performance Data
User
Experience
App
Performance
Routing
Topology
Network
Topology
Enterprise, Endpoint and Cloud Agents
Network
Connectivity
Device
Performance
Global 2000
Companies
260+
All Top 10
US Banks
170+
Fortune 500
Companies

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See Experience From Every Vantage Point
Data
Center
Data
Center
SaaS
IaaS
CDN
DNS
DNS
Provider Security Provider
API
Customer
Cloud Endpoint
Enterprise

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To Cloud and Internet-centric IT
Branch Offices
Datacenter
Internet Cloud
Enterprise SD-WAN

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Lightweight SaaS Deployment
• Inside-Out monitoring
(on-prem)
• Deployment Options
– OVA / Physical Appliance
– Linux Package/NUC/rPI
– Docker
– Cisco ASR 1k / ISR 4k
• Commonly for internal
applications, SaaS and
Site-to-Site
• Last-mile monitoring
• Extends network and service
visibility in a way that is
agnostic to the location of the
user
• Deployment Options
– Operating Systems
• Windows 7 / 8/ 8.1 / 10
• Mac OS X 10.9 / 10.10 / 10.11
– Browsers
• Google Chrome 41+
• Internet Explorer 11+
Enterprise Agent Endpoint Agent
• Outside-In monitoring
• 400+ Locations
– Tier 2 and 3 service providers,
broadband, cloud
– www.thousandeyes.com/product/cloud-agents
• Commonly for customer and
public facing applications
Cloud Agent

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Use Cases
Modern WAN SD-WAN Network Devices Endpoints / LAN
Employee DX
Cloud Security
Customer DX BGP Routing
CDN providers ISP
VoIP
IaaS Providers SaaS Providers UCaaS/Collaboration
DDoS Security
Websites & Apps DNS Services

9. Dashboards, Reports,
and Alerts
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Track Service Objectives With Dashboards

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Understand the Experience of Your Remote Workers
Real-time visibility into employee
experience using SaaS and Internal
Web Applications
Measure the performance of
Collaboration Tools (WebEx,
Teams, Slack, etc.)
Insight into Wi-Fi, LAN
and local ISP
performance
Understand the impact
of system bottlenecks
on employee
experience

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Dashboards – Remote Workers

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Reports – Remote Workers
VPN Health
Browser Experience
(Summary)
Browser Experience
by User

14. Demo
Remote Workforce
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• Employee Productivity Blind Spots
–Is it an application problem?
–An issue with the VPN or network?
–A problem in the Service Provider network?
–Bottleneck in the user’s Wi-Fi or laptop?
The Shift to WFH

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1. Monitor employee experience from anywhere at any time
• Remote workers
• Call centers
• Traveling executives
2. “Last Mile” monitoring
• Insight into the user’s web site experience and ISP performance
• Network topology views – Wireless
3. Troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues
• Correlate end user issues with historical and near real-time user data
Endpoint Agent Use Cases

17. Demo
Digital Experience
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Cloud Blindness is Costly
Detection
(MTTD)
Extremely Long Problem Isolation
(MTTI)
Resolution
(MTTR)
Service desk
costs spiking
App experience
unpredictable
Cloud outages impact
revenue and brand
SD-WAN projects hit
unexpected ISP issues
Costly war-rooms and
wasteful finger pointing

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How IT Needs to Transform
INTERNET
VISIBILITY
Non-existent Multi-layered, end-to-end, complete
PLANNING Blind roll out Proactive baselining
OPERATIONS Finger pointing Collaboration
PROBLEM
ISOLATION
Uncertain, ineffective Immediate, decisive
PROBLEM
RESOLUTION
Hours to days Minutes

20. Demo
Internet Insights
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ThousandEyes Internet Insights™
Based on ThousandEyes
global collective
intelligence dataset
Business-class visibility into
macro internet issues
Authoritative view
of Internet health

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Enterprises Face ‘Internet-sized’ Challenges
Optimize digital portfolio
Scale service assurance
Users anywhere
Outages ~50+ daily
MTTI hours
Services unreliable
Providers slow to respond
Vendor selection blind

23. Customer Case Studies
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24. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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Microsoft Outage Impacts Access to O365,
Sharepoint, and other Resources
Microsoft suffers a large, global outage
that causes a worldwide outage to
multiple MS SaaS resources.
Link to Data

25. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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AWS Outage Impacts SD-WAN
Access to Workday
AWS suffers a large outage that causes
multiple SD-WAN branches to lose
access to Workday
Link to Data

26. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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Github Suffers Massive DDoS Attack
Github suffers a massive DDoS attack
and recovers fast with mitigation from
Akamai Prolexic
Link to Data

27. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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Cloud Migration Gone Wrong
A planned move of their online betting
site to AWS did not produce the desired
result
Link to Data

28. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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Fastly CDN Outage Impacts Pinterest
Grubhub, Pinterest and other critical
services impacted due to an outage in
Fastly’s network
Link to Data

29. OUTAGE CASE STUDY
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DNS Outage Impacts Southwest
DNS server unavailability due to ISP
outage impacts Southwest customers
Link to Data

30. Cisco Integrations
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IBN Embed Offer Overview
IBN switching customers with DNA Advantage or Premier licenses get the
equivalent of 1 test @ 5min from an Enterprise Agent (i.e. 22 units / month).
What switches are included? What licenses are included?
• High end switches only: C9300,
C9300L, C9300AG and C9400
• Offer only applies if catalyst has a
DNA Advantage or Premier license
• DNA Advantage and Premier only
(not Essentials!)
• Offer available for brownfield (i.e.
existing DNA licenses pre-April
2021); or at time of transaction
(new/renewal) via Greenfield

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33. Q&A
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