Heavy Networking 701: Monitoring SD-WAN At Scale With Broadcom (Sponsored)

Welcome to Heavy Networking. Our topic today is SD-WAN monitoring at massive scale. What do I mean by that? If back in the day you monitored the underlay–the physical circuits that made up your wide area network, today you have likely deployed a software-defined WAN on top of that underlay. The overlay. You need to monitor that overlay as well. Overlays are made up of tunnels, and often those tunnels are deployed as a full or partial mesh. You end up with a lot more endpoints to monitor than if you were concerned with just the underlay. For an SD-WAN of size, you could end up monitoring tens of thousands of endpoints. You could even exceed a million elements in total which, if you’ve ever built a monitoring platform, you know is a massive resource challenge. Our sponsor today is Broadcom. Broadcom might be most well-known to you for the chips they put into network switches. But Broadcom has a wide array of other products and services they offer, including massively scalable network monitoring tools including DX Unified Infrastructure Management. We dig into a case study Broadcom did with one of their customers, a global IT infrastructure provider with 4,400 of their own customers. They use Broadcom products to monitor that infrastructure. Our guests are Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist; and Eric Custer, Sr. Product Line Manager at Broadcom. Show Links: Kyndryl Boosts Monitoring Scale by 50%, Optimizes SD-WAN Performance and Patient Care – Broadcom (PDF) Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management – Broadcom