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HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance
Transform your WAN into a self-driving network, powered by HPE Marvis AI, for faster troubleshooting, automation, and deep insights.
Guaranteed exceptional user experiences
HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance shifts the focus from network health to user experience. Monitor and enforce service level experiences (SLEs) using key metrics on application response times, WAN link status, gateway health, and other network conditions. Gain insights into how these metrics impact end user experiences and proactively identify the root causes of any service degradation.
Boosted IT efficiency
By bringing AIOps to your SD-WAN, AI-native intelligence assesses the impact of network latency, jitter, packet loss, and other network metrics on end user experiences by application. It also provides insights into gateway health, including CPU and memory consumption and link utilization levels. This drastically reduces the time your IT team spends on manual troubleshooting, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives.
Reduced downtime
HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance continuously monitors your network and WAN gateway for anomalies and provides self-healing actions to prevent outages, leading to a more stable and reliable network.
Bridge the IT skills gap with AI
HPE Marvis AI Assistant is a powerful conversational interface for bridging the IT skills gap within your organization. By allowing your team to use natural language to ask complex troubleshooting questions, the assistant empowers less-experienced staff to handle issues that would typically require a senior engineer.
Deploy your SD-WAN in minutes
Centrally configure and onboard your SD-WAN, including WAN links and service and security policies, using the HPE Mist platform. Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) simplifies site deployments while configuration templates enable rapid-scale implementation of your entire distributed SD-WAN.
A network that fixes itself, even when no one is there
As the only AI-native networking digital experience twins, HPE Marvis Minis instantly validate connectivity and application reachability issues on your network—even when end users aren't present. HPE Marvis Minis enables you to detect and resolve network issues before they impact users, augmenting the already rich set of SLE data provided by the HPE Mist platform.
HPE Marvis finds the needle in the haystack for you
Dynamic Packet Capture (dPCAP) has been added to the WAN so operators no longer need to recreate issues on their network to capture the right packets. HPE Marvis detects when an issue is occurring and automatically captures the appropriate packets, significantly accelerating troubleshooting and enabling operators to quickly find and resolve needle‑in‑a‑haystack issues.
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HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance FAQs
What is HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance?
HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance is a cloud service that uses HPE Marvis AI to bring AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations) to your SD-WAN. As a key part of HPE's AI-native SD-WAN solution, it completely transforms network management from a manual, reactive process to a proactive, automated one. The service works by continuously collecting and analyzing telemetry data from your network devices, such as HPE Networking EdgeConnect, HPE Networking Session Smart Router and HPE Networking SRX Firewalls. By applying AI and machine learning to this data, HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance provides unparalleled visibility and control over your network's performance and health.
What does HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance accomplish?
HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance accomplishes three main things for your SD-WAN:
1. Ensures a proactive, AI-native network: HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance shifts your network from a reactive to a proactive state. It uses HPE Marvis AI to continuously monitor your network, automatically detecting and resolving issues before they impact users. This includes providing AI-native root cause analysis, which drastically reduces troubleshooting time.
2. Simplifies management and deployment: The service streamlines the entire network life cycle, from initial setup to day-to-day operations. With Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and intuitive, centralized management, you can deploy and scale your SD-WAN with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
3. Guarantees a superior user experience: Instead of just monitoring device health, HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance focuses on the quality of the end user experience. It allows you to set and enforce Service Level Expectations (SLEs) for critical applications, ensuring consistent and reliable performance for everyone on the network.
HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance greatly improves the end user and operator experience for enterprise WAN networks. This is accomplished with the HPE Marvis AI engine, which analyzes rich streaming telemetry from HPE Networking EdgeConnect, HPE Networking Session Smart Routers and HPE Networking SRX Firewalls.
What makes HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance unique from competing solutions?
There are three key differentiators that set HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance apart:
- AI-native operations with HPE Marvis AI: HPE Marvis AI Assistant simplifies troubleshooting through natural-language interaction, prescriptive actions, and self-driving remediation. HPE Marvis Minis proactively validate network performance, even when users are not present, helping IT identify and resolve issues before they impact user experiences.
- Service Level Experiences (SLEs): SLEs measure application experiences using insights into application, WAN link, and gateway health. Combined with HPE Mist Networking Wired Assurance and Wi-Fi Assurance, WAN Assurance provides client-to-cloud visibility to help identify and isolate issues across wired, wireless, and WAN domains.
- Dynamic Packet Capture (dPCAP): HPE Marvis automatically captures relevant packets when an issue occurs, eliminating the need to recreate problems and accelerating troubleshooting.
How do Service Level Experiences (SLEs) work?
SLEs measure actual user experiences in real time based on continuously delivered (and actionable) telemetry. SLEs are maintained using applied machine learning to understand the actual end user experience on the network.
SLEs identify root causes of suboptimal application performance experiences in just a few clicks and proactively isolate needle-in-a-haystack problems that may occur anywhere in the WAN.
What are the SLEs in HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance?
The SLEs in HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance are:
- WAN edge health: Percentage of time clients are affected by WAN edges (routers) not passing traffic efficiently
- WAN link health: Percentage of time clients are affected by suboptimal WAN link performance
- Application health: Percentage of time when monitored applications are not performing well
- Gateway bandwidth: Percentage of time where WAN links are operating within available bandwidth rates and when not hitting congestion thresholds
- Overall service: Derived from the above
Does HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance operate in tandem with HPE Mist Networking Wired Assurance and HPE Mist Networking Wi-Fi Assurance?
Yes. When used in conjunction with HPE Mist Networking Wired Assurance and HPE Mist Networking Wi-Fi Assurance, HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance transforms and unites all operations across network switches, IoT devices, access points, servers, printers, and other equipment.
The benefits of this cross-domain visibility and control can be seen in the resolution of complex issues, such as:
- Discovery that a problem with successful connections to an access point was caused by a configuration change in a WAN router (an MTU mismatch) that caused certificates to fail
- Generic case of the internet being slow turns out to be a disruption in a cloud security service
- Slow messaging application could be affected by latency on the application server, an LTE signal issue in the WAN, or even an issue in the LAN (wired or wireless)
What are the benefits of HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance?
Key benefits of HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance are:
- AI-native troubleshooting: HPE Marvis AI Assistant proactively detects and resolves network issues before they impact users. This automation and AI-native root cause analysis dramatically reduces MTTR and boosts your IT team's efficiency
- Guaranteed user experiences: You can set and monitor SLEs for critical applications. This ensures consistent and reliable performance for all users, as the platform automatically works to meet these expectations
- Simplified operations: HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance streamlines the entire network lifecycle, from Day 0 to Day 2. With centralized management, templated configurations, and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), deploying and scaling your SD-WAN becomes a fast and simple process
- Bridging the IT skills gap: The HPE Marvis conversational interface empowers less-experienced staff to troubleshoot complex network problems by using natural language. This frees up your senior engineers to focus on strategic projects rather than day-to-day support issues
Support for HPE Mist Networking WAN Assurance features may vary across HPE Networking SD-WAN solutions.