Considerations for Active Monitoring from an SD-WAN Site
Broadcom News, Monday, March 25th, 2024
Why active monitoring is a fundamental component of network management
As companies adopt SD-WAN technologies, they increasingly rely on network services outside their control. The new reality is that network operations need end-to-end visibility on the network performance whether or not they own the infrastructure.
In a 2023 EMA survey, 63% of companies report using the Internet as their primary WAN connectivity. Traditional monitoring offers passive traffic analysis, which is not sufficient to provide insights into performance problems when applications run outside of the data center. This is why active monitoring has become so critical to help operations teams understand how end users experience the network.