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Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

Gain end-to-end visibility and insights like never before..

Create exceptional digital experiences built on deep network observability and critical network monitoring.

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Be proactive, not reactive. Put the power of your multivendor infrastructure to work for a trouble-free network.

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Granular, real-time visibility.

Perform end-to-end and full mesh testing with microsecond precision and make hidden microbursts a thing of the past.

Reliability meets flexibility

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Optimize your infrastructure

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Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance use cases

Solve the challenges of fragmented multidomain tools and poor visibility on service quality. Discover how Provider Connectivity Assurance can help you simplify operations.

Real-time SLA visibility

Monitor and police SLAs for accountability, while proactively addressing performance issues.​

Critical network monitoring

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B2B service differentiation

Create new revenue opportunities to upsell and differentiate your services with multitenant end-customer portals for real-time service-level agreement (SLA) visibility and alerting. ​

Automated assurance

Detect issues early when you automate assurance for the entire service lifecycle with real-time service visibility and predictive analytics.​

Multilayer assurance

Get a single view of performance across multiple network layers, like segment routing and routed optical networking, to reduce tools and drive down MTTR.​

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Assurance sensors

Network-wide service performance visibility. Deployable anywhere, at scale.

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"we can look at network performance at any level.".

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André Ethier, Network Quality Engineer

Bouygues Telecom

"The solution is key in evolving our end-to-end network visibility."

This is extremely powerful in terms of customer experience. It helps to avoid tickets, as customers can see for themselves what happened with their service. This reduces tension and increases customer satisfaction.

Bart Janssens, Senior Specialist, Packet Architecture

Take preventative measures against network degradation.

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Mahesh Anjan, Senior Product Technology Executive

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Plug innovation into your network.

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