Skylight License Tiers

Skylight Licensing Tiers

Skylight has two offerings, in order to align with customers’ use cases:

1. Skylight Essentials is available to Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) customers only, offering a limited set of capabilities that are targeted to automated assurance integration with the Crosswork Network Controller platform.

2. Skylight Advantage is our full solution with all network and application performance monitoring capabilities

Summary of Skylight Essentials Functionality

Skylight Essentials enables the following capabilities, and is available only to customers who have purchased Cisco Crosswork Network Controller Advantage and Service Health:

• CNC version 6.x - Continuous network assurance for Layer 3 leveraging Sensor Agents running Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)
• CNC version 7.x - Continuous network assurance for Layer 3 leveraging Sensor Agents and/or Sensor Control running TWAMP

Skylight functionalities included:

• Sensor and Session Management through the included RESTConf interface
• Data Streaming through the included gNMI interface

Summary of Skylight Advantage Functionality

Skylight Advantage offers the full value and power of the platform:

• Visibility – Ultra granular network performance data
• Insights – Analytics for monitoring, troubleshooting, and trend analysis

Skylight Advantage offers a variety of assurance and monitoring capabilities:

• Continuous Network Assurance for Layer 2 or Layer 3 networks
• Continuous Application Performance Assurance leveraging Skylight Sensor Capture
• Monitoring Model Driven Telemetry (MDT) performance metrics on Cisco IOS® XR devices
• Monitoring Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) network performance metrics on third-party devices
• Service Activation Tests (can be achieved through hardware or software sensors)
• Continuous protocol testing to monitor endpoint responsiveness

Additional Advantage capabilities are available if hardware sensors are added to the customer solution. Skylight hardware sensors are sold separately.

Advantage includes all Essentials functionality, as well as Skylight Performance Analytics that provides:

• Retention of historical performance data
• Generation of threshold alerts
• Custom dashboards
• Leverage refined troubleshooting and deep analysis tools
• Scheduled reports

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