OSHEAN is volving its Cisco ThousandEyes offering to give members a clearer, more actionable view of their networks, without adding complexity or cost. This comprehensive servicedelivers something increasingly critical: the ability to see, understand, and act on network performance in real time.
With the introduction of Traffic Insights, OSHEAN members can now integrate NetFlow data directly into the ThousandEyes platform, bringing traffic visibility into the same interface as synthetic testing and endpoint monitoring. The result is a true single-pane-of-glass experience, where network, application, and traffic data come together to tell a complete story.
Members can now:
- Understand traffic patterns in context, correlating NetFlow data with application performance and user experience
- Gain SNMP-based visibility into network devices, capturing essential performance metrics without deploying additional tools
- Optimize costs by consolidating capabilities, reducing reliance on expensive, infrastructure-heavy solutions like SolarWinds
Unlike traditional NetFlow and SNMP monitoring tools that require significant infrastructure and incremental licensing costs, OSHEAN’s ThousandEyes model allows members to allocate existing units based on their needs. For example, a typical subscription can dedicate units to both NetFlow (Traffic Insights) and synthetic testing, without requiring new budget or additional overhead. As a result, members can expand their visibility footprint, rebalance existing tools, and extract more value from a platform they already use.
OSHEAN’s existing internal ThousandEyes deployment is strategically deployed at vantage points such as Boston, New York, Providence, and Albany, enhancing their ability to monitor performance across regional and upstream network paths. A number of members have taken advantage of the ability to create a “sub-tenant” off the OSHEAN fabric to create a highly efficient visibility framework.
“Our members are all facing the same reality—growing demand, constrained budgets, and increasing complexity,” said OSHEAN CEO Dave Marble. “This evolution of Cisco’s ThousandEyes offering gives our members a more cost-effective way to understand what’s happening across their networks and act on it quickly. It’s about making better decisions with the resources they already have.”
“OSHEAN and our members today need more than isolated monitoring tools and ThousandEyes has quickly become a cornerstone to our standard operating model of support.” said Tim Rue, CTO of OSHEAN. “Our instrumentation of the OSHEAN network, combined with OSHEAN’s member-focused, sub-tenant delivery program, provides unprecedented insight into traffic and performance, and does so in an extremely cost-effective, scalable way.”
A Smarter Way to Scale Network Intelligence
For OSHEAN members already using ThousandEyes, enabling Traffic Insights is straightforward, with no new deployment required. Members can simply configure their existing subscription to allocate units toward NetFlow data collection.
For those evaluating their current monitoring stack, OSHEAN’s Thousand Eyes offering is a more efficient, consolidated approach to network visibility that reduces tool sprawl while improving insight. For more information, visit https://oshean.org/services/cisco-thousandeyes/.