Use cases

• High-level use cases

High-level use cases

The following use cases work across industries.

Use cases	Challenges / Business need	Solution benefits
Smart buildings / Sustainability	Connect all systems and services to create a converged network infrastructure that will yield new value to owners and tenants Meet carbon-neutral goals to create a more sustainable facility Reduce and optimize the ongoing cost of building operations	Increase efficiencies across building operations Reduce carbon footprint to help meet sustainability mandates or public goals Differentiate your employee value proposition Increase workplace agility and competitive advantage
Return to office	Provide a safe and efficient environment to entice workers back to the office Create a new type of office experience for people who are used to a certain experience after working from home	Provide a seamless, consistent, high-quality user experience for workers, no matter where they are located Support the physical and mental well-being of employees returning to the office with enhanced safety features and communications
Modernize operational models	Meet the demands of today’s hybrid/remote workforces Improve the capabilities and services that cannot be met by traditional IT infrastructures	Provide a foundation for the modern, agile business Accelerate your adoption of cloud, IoT, and intelligent environments Access new, advanced services from day one
OT/IT convergence	Support the convergence of manufacturing machinery or other OT devices onto one network Manage and reduce the risk introduced by new devices connecting to the network	Create one network with consistent security and segmentation to protect sensitive data Apply consistent policies across the organization’s network

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High-level use cases

Use cases	Challenges / Business need	Solution benefits
Security	Manage and reduce the security risk introduced by remote work environments and various end points accessing the network Improve governance to meet compliance requirements and reduce risk	Establish built-in, pervasive security Provide a best-in-class control point to counter cybersecurity threats Improve the organization’s security posture
Digital transformation	Increase digitization in various parts of the organization Upgrade the network to support new digital demands from the business	Provide a network that can deliver services for the organization’s digital future as a vital element of the digital strategy Deliver exceptional digital experiences that differentiate your organization: to workers, customers, and other stakeholders
360-degree observability	Add real-time visibility into network operations Combine predictive analytics into observability of the network Develop deep business insights into operations from analysis of network traffic	Provide greater visibility into the user experience from different locations, including the edge Generate business-relevant reporting from analytics Gain early warning from locations affecting network issues
Automation and AIOps	Work through the complexity of deploying AIOps and automation to achieve the intended results Establish threshold-based filtering of events to only highlight critical items Predictively alert and triage potential events before anything affects business activities Perform root cause analysis and reduce mean time to repair	Group related tickets together so that only one request is sent to service management team Reduce ticket volume and noise Provide early warning for network performance degradation Generate alerts when anomalies occur (real-time)

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