Clearing away the fog and revealing the truth, H3C Eagle Vision System makes the network clear and controllable

[51CTO.com original article] For large government and enterprise users, the network is undoubtedly the key to maintaining business operations and corporate management. We can even use "the blood vessels of the enterprise" to describe the importance of the network to the enterprise. However, with the expansion of enterprise scale, the increase of branches and the rapid accumulation of network equipment, the networks of many enterprises are actually out of control. Faced with such a large-scale network with both internal and external networks and countless devices, many enterprises can only barely maintain the normal operation of this network even if they invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and cannot effectively monitor and manage the network itself.

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Management Dilemma of Large Government and Enterprise Networks

Security is definitely one of the rigid demands of citizens for the city. This demand is currently mainly achieved through the large-scale deployment of security cameras. However, in the actual management process, tens of thousands of cameras in a city pose a huge challenge to the network and management. Due to the limited perception and management capabilities of traditional networks, it is difficult for camera managers to effectively manage the massive number of cameras distributed throughout the city through layers of switches. It is difficult to instantly perceive various problems such as whether the camera is online, whether the function is normal, whether the video transmission is normal, and whether the network is healthy. Managers often only find that the camera is damaged or offline when they need to retrieve the video file or real-time image of the corresponding camera.

For enterprises, the network dilemma is even more significant. In many large enterprises with several branches, the intranet and the extranet together constitute the entire enterprise network. In such a network, many grassroots units and branches will expand the network by privately connecting switches and personal devices, which not only endangers the security of the enterprise, but also makes network management a disaster. However, since these privately connected devices are not compatible with the enterprise network standards in terms of management standards and management functions, network managers in many cases cannot even understand which devices the grassroots units have privately connected, let alone the so-called management and security.

Therefore, for large networks, government and enterprise users urgently need a set of network means that can sense autonomously and have strong penetration and management capabilities to manage all networked devices. Facing this new blue ocean, H3C has already set sail.

Clear your network

The management dilemma of traditional large-scale networks lies in the complexity of network levels and the diversity of network devices. Traditional detection and perception methods cannot work in such a complex environment. However, the Eagle Vision system uses three unique skills to help users dispel the fog of layers of networks and gain full-dimensional insights into the entire network to see the structure of the entire network and each device in the network.

Secret Skill 1: User Insights

For large enterprises, the departments are huge and the division of labor is complicated, so how to ensure that the right people can access the right systems and data has become the primary issue of network management. To this end, the Eagle Vision system provides enterprises with a complete user access mechanism, which prevents illegal users from accessing while also allowing the system to set different permissions for legal users; thus connecting the right people with the right systems and data.

Special skill 2: Equipment insights

How to make legal devices work smoothly and keep illegal devices out is another difficult problem faced in large-scale network management. This is the second unique skill of the Eagle Vision system. By actively detecting networked devices, the Eagle Vision system can easily obtain a series of information such as device type, manufacturer, device model, operating system, IP address, MAC address, port information, etc. of all devices in the network, as well as the connection status and working status of these devices. In addition, the Eagle Vision system can also easily detect various MAC disguises and disconnect or restrict illegal devices. At the same time, for those "dumb devices" that do not have management functions, the Eagle Vision system can also accurately determine their device type and working status.

Through powerful device perception and management capabilities, users can set the "baseline" of network devices by importing or actively sensing, and learn about various changes in the current network at any time, and achieve higher-dimensional network control by comparing with the baseline. It can be said that as long as there is an IP network terminal, Eagle Vision can see through it.

Secret Skill 3: Connect Insights

In actual applications, network management is not only a simple connection task, but also responsible for the connection quality of a large number of devices in the entire network. The third unique skill of Eagle Vision is the ability to see through network traffic. The Eagle Vision system can perceive the network quality of each network device through layers of network protocols, and centrally summarize a series of information such as bandwidth, traffic, delay, packet loss, etc., and present the quality and health of the entire network to users in a graphical and data-based form through back-end modeling. This allows network managers to take charge of the overall situation and achieve control over the entire network. At the same time, the system can also promptly notify managers of any abnormal connections and traffic on the network, so as to achieve rapid response to network management.

Easy deployment, network management should be this easy

For modern network technology and terminal equipment, it is not complicated to realize various advanced management functions. However, in the real world, enterprises often cannot realize these advanced network management functions. Because these advanced functions are usually scattered in different devices and solutions, enterprises need to purchase many devices and management systems to realize comprehensive management of the entire network. Such a "tough" project not only takes a long time to implement, but also requires enterprises to invest a lot of money and sacrifice business continuity before it can be implemented. Of course, the risks generated by such projects themselves are also unbearable for many enterprises.

As a pure software system, the new Eagle Vision 2.0 provides two deployment methods for enterprises.

First, users can deploy the Eagle Vision 2.0 software system on ordinary x86 servers, allowing enterprises to comprehensively improve network management capabilities without performing any "surgery" on the existing network structure. This bypass deployment feature is exactly the "flexible implantation" advocated by H3C Eagle Vision 2.0. The flexible implantation of Eagle Vision 2.0 will neither bring any impact to the network nor impose any requirements on the network structure and network equipment models, which is very suitable for large-scale network user deployment with complex network structures.

Of course, as a leader in the field of domestic enterprise networks, H3C has also launched the Eagle Vision Inside switch with its own Eagle Vision 2.0 system. Through the deployment of this switch, enterprises can achieve dual-dimensional expansion of network structure and network management. And this "natural integration" with switch products is another major feature of the Eagle Vision 2.0 system.

In the era of the Internet of Things, eagles soar into the sky and gain boundless insights

With the popularization of high-speed networks and the upcoming commercial use of 5G, the new era of the Internet of Things will soon arrive. In this new era, enterprise IT will gain a series of new tools and means to perceive the physical world and business processes. However, along with this process, the enterprise's network structure will become unprecedentedly complex, and the number of access devices will also increase dramatically.

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Faced with more complex networks and more devices, how to ensure fine control of the network has become a prerequisite for enterprises to embrace the Internet of Things. The emergence of the H3C Eagle Vision 2.0 system provides government and enterprise users with a powerful tool to see the truth in large networks.

First of all, the Eagle Vision 2.0 system has a wide range of scene adaptability. As long as there is a network, the Eagle Vision 2.0 system can work.

Second, the Eagle Vision 2.0 system also allows enterprises to achieve comprehensive access management of connected users and devices from both macro and micro dimensions.

Third, the Eagle Vision 2.0 system allows enterprises to fully perceive the tangible terminals and intangible network quality, making the network an organism that can autonomously achieve management and security.

We have a heavy responsibility and we will live up to it

At present, the Eagle Vision system has been deployed in key enterprises and projects such as the State Energy Group and the Xiamen BRICS Conference security system transformation and has played an active role. In addition, the Eagle Vision system also plays an important role in the Snow Bright Project, public security networks, campus networks and other video surveillance intensive applications in many places. In the future, the Eagle Vision system will inevitably help various government and enterprise users embrace the Internet of Things era in a wider range.

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