Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Elevates Their Network with Marvis Minis

0:00 Hello, my name is Kevin Brew and I am

0:01 the network architect for the Royal

0:02 College of Surgeons in Ireland. We've

0:04 been using Juniper Networks in RCSI

0:07 since 2021 and we currently use it for

0:09 wired wireless core and access. Marvis

0:12 Minis is literally the first place that

0:14 I go every single day to see what the

0:17 rest of my day is going to be like. Um

0:19 hopefully when I log in in the morning,

0:21 all my Marvis Minis tests are green.

0:22 What a Marvis Minis test is is like a

0:25 small digital AI twin. Let's say it

0:29 tests DHCP, DNS, ARP, and application as

0:34 in can I access websites from a

0:37 selection of access points within a

0:38 building once an hour, every hour, 24/7.

0:42 So when you walk in in the morning, you

0:44 have a nice green report that says that

0:45 your network is behaving as it should.

0:47 If we did a firewall migration in 2024,

0:51 every single piece of traffic in and out

0:53 of your network is going to be affected

0:54 by this. So I used minis after every

0:57 major change. In this case, I would move

0:59 an interface from one firewall to

1:00 another firewall. I would then be able

1:02 to test that interface using Marvis

1:03 minis and verify that the new firewall

1:05 is functioning as it should. If it finds

1:07 something that doesn't resolve itself

1:10 quite quickly, it will generate

1:11 something called a Marvis action. So

1:13 these are things that a human needs to

1:14 intervene on. So let's say that it's

1:18 discovered that DNS has gone down and

1:21 it's then fired off another test in a

1:22 different part of the building and it

1:24 goes DNS is also failing here. This will

1:27 then generate a Marvis action and at

1:29 that point we start our troubleshooting

1:31 process to make sure all of our DNS

1:33 servers are responding as they should

1:34 be. Marvis Mini's client cloud

1:36 visibility really aids the IT team

1:39 within RCSI as it allows anyone to get a

1:44 really strong metric as to network

1:46 performance and availability. It allows

1:49 cross discipline collaboration within my

1:52 own team to say Marvis minis is

1:54 reporting an issue. It kind of then

1:56 steers us on the way to what way we need

1:58 to start troubleshooting problems as

2:00 they occur or if they occur. Imagine

2:02 that you had somebody whose job it was

2:03 to sit all day and test the experience

2:06 of a user like a physical person that

2:08 had to do this and then put that into a

2:11 spreadsheet and then graph that over

2:12 time like like you can imagine that you

2:14 would actually benefit from this but

2:16 obviously it's not going to be possible.

2:18 So having Marvis minis constantly

2:20 testing you know it doesn't get tired

2:23 doesn't sleep to quote Terminator.

2:25 So it's always testing these things and

2:28 it's always graphing these things you

2:30 know it's it's always there for you and

2:32 you can have a look at it within

2:34 business hours out of business hours we

2:36 always have maintained the expression

2:37 that the network is like running water

2:39 like people deserve to always turn on

2:41 the top and water comes out just like

2:42 when they deserve to come into the

2:44 office the Wi-Fi is going to work

2:46 sometimes things happen sometimes people

2:48 get a bad team's call and you might hear

2:50 about this over the water cooler in the

2:52 kitchen uh a couple of hours later and

2:55 been able to take that statement and go

2:58 back and either verify that it's true or

3:01 false or gauge what the issue was based

3:03 on the fact that you were testing the

3:05 network at that given time has really as

3:07 I mentioned changed the narrative around

3:09 the availability of the network.