Why Is Closed Loop Automation Important?

Powerful big data analytics can provide answers to complex traffic analytics questions. With these analytics and the understanding of traffic exploration workflows, ISPs can start answering the most complex BGP analytics questions at the speed of thought. This is a massive leap forward as most reporting and automation today is focused around passed / dropped traffic levels, which do not always accurately reflect how effective a mitigation is being from the end user perspective. This information can be collected during peacetime and then used during an attack to ensure that a mitigation is returning service performance to a normal level from a user perspective.