Treating your network as a service
Often in IT, the work is related to the manufacturing industry, and certain manufacturing requirements can help us understand the concept of treating your network as a service. One crucial requirement is knowing when to secure funding for your service. The ability to measure service availability by the applications that use it is key. This highlights the importance of observability.
The services that are delivered are designed to meet particular goals. As a network service provider, the goal is to usually provide network services to customers at scale. As an enterprise entity, the goal is to provide network services that help enable applications to serve enterprise goals. The use of observability to provide metrics about the health and state of a network helps to provide a clear understanding of the network services. This can also help to provide data-driven metrics to help get upgrades to the network equipment that you need.
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