Keysight Streamlines SD-WAN Adoption with Hawkeye Monitoring from Ixia

Keysight Technologies is a leading worldwide provider of test and measurement solutions that helps customers accelerate innovation and optimize operations. One of the solutions that Keysight offers is Hawkeye from Ixia, a performance monitoring tool that places the user experience at the heart of the transition to cloud or software-defined network (SDN) architectures. Hawkeye helps teams answer two key questions: What is the user experience? and How do we quantify and translate that experience into actionable data we can use to manage the network? Hawkeye enables teams to perform active, user-experience-centric monitoring of application quality and to identify and address issues before they impact users. Hawkeye is especially useful for enterprises that are adopting software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN), which offer many benefits such as reducing recurring telecom costs, lessening the burden on operations teams, and improving application performance. However, SD-WAN also introduces new challenges such as managing multiple ISP relationships, validating service readiness and SLAs, and ensuring consistent voice and video quality across different sites. Hawkeye helps teams overcome these challenges by providing easy, cost-effective distribution of endpoints, comprehensive monitoring across central and remote locations, streamlining application and network rollouts or cloud migration, and enabling lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and higher return on investment (ROI). Hawkeye provides unique value and insight during the critical stages of adoption or transition: design, deployment, and production/operation. Hawkeye includes endpoints that generate packets between company sites to test things like voice and video call quality and conduct synthetic transactions with servers. Hawkeye also provides meaningful metrics such as Mean Opinion Scores (MOS) for voice applications that tell administrators what users do not. The current web page context showcases how Keysight Technologies used Hawkeye to successfully implement SD-WAN at 130 locations worldwide, achieving savings of about $2 million annually and increasing WAN bandwidth by 5 to 15 times capacity across its locations. The web page also provides more details on how Hawkeye works, its features and benefits, its hardware and software components, and its scalability for the future. To learn more about Hawkeye from Ixia, visit www.keysight.com/find/hawkeye. To contact Keysight Technologies for more information on their products, applications or services, visit www.keysight.com/find/contactus.