Network General™ Corporation, a privately-held company based in San Jose, California, is the leading developer and provider of award-winning solutions for network and application performance management. The Network General portfolio consists of a family of integrated hardware and software products, including the industry-leading Sniffer® solutions that enable the management of complex, high-speed networks covering virtually all wireless and wired network topologies and protocols, and the applications that traverse these networks. Supporting the widest range of network topologies in the industry, Network General solutions enable enterprises, small and medium businesses, and service providers worldwide to effectively keep their networks and applications up and running at peak performance, 24x7.

Network General Products

Sniffer Distibuted
Sniffer Infinistream
Sniffer Portable
Sniffer s4000 Hardware Platform
Sniffer s6040 Hardware Platform
Application Intelligence
Mobile Intelligence
Sniffer MultiSegment Intelligence
Sniffer Administrator
Sniffer NetVigil
Sniffer Visualizer

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Sniffer Distibuted
Enterprise Network and Application Performance Analysis

Sniffer® Distributed enables deployment across multi-topology, multi-protocol, distributed networks. With Sniffer Distributed, you can monitor, validate, and evaluate your entire edge-to-core network infrastructure, from troubleshooting and base lining, to real-time and historical analysis. Armed with these insights, Sniffer Distributed identifies and resolves network performance problems and bottlenecks before they impact your users.

 
Sniffer Infinistream

An effective enterprise network enables organizations to become more customer-focused, increase profitability, reduce total ownership costs, and address new business opportunities. Network performance issues can negatively impact an enterprise’s overall efficacy, as these problems tend to occur randomly. Analyzing these events can be enormously time-consuming, especially when trying to recreate or pinpoint specific scenarios. Reviewing terabytes of data to find the ‘needle in the haystack’ often proves fruitless. The Sniffer® InfiniStream™ platform makes it easy to look backin-time to examine network performance, observe traffic trends, isolate anomalies, perform deep packet analysis, and generate summary reports.

 
Sniffer Portable
Assuring optimal network performance and security

Sniffer® Portable is part of a family of network fault and application performance management solutions that enable network professionals to maintain, troubleshoot, fine tune, and expand multitopology and multiprotocol networks. This fault and performance management mobile solution is ideally suited for a wide range of usage scenarios that are complementary to Sniffer Distributed and Sniffer InfiniStream network management deployments. You can configure Sniffer Portable software and its associated options to begin tracking all the information entering or leaving your network via the Internet gateway and traveling on internal subnets. Sniffer Portable supports wireless and 10/100/1000 Ethernet networks.

 
Sniffer s4000 Hardware Platform
Enterprise Network and Application Performance Analysis

Managing today’s widespread and diverse enterprise networks has never been more challenging. As an IT professional, you need to ensure that your network and applications delivers the availability, security, and reliability required by your business. Sniffer® Distributed software helps you meet these challenges by providing a fault and performance management solution that can be deployed across your entire enterprise. It delivers unparalleled network monitoring, protocol decodes, and Expert analysis capabilities to all key LAN, WAN, and ATM segments throughout your network. The foundation of the Sniffer Distributed solution is its underlying instrumentation. The Sniffer Distributed s4000 series, the workhorse of the family, is a fl exible, powerful platform that is easy to implement, access, and maintain.

 
Sniffer s6040 Hardware Platform
Assuring Optimal Network Performance and Security

The s6040 is a modular, high performance hardware platform designed specifi cally for the high speeds and complex architectures present in core networks today. It is an extension to the existing Sniffer Distributed platform family by Network General™, the tool of choice for unsurpassed monitoring and troubleshooting. It builds on Sniffer Distributed’s feature set by offering a robust, modular hardware platform with enhanced functionality.

 
Application Intelligence
Retrospective Application Performance Analysis for Network Professionals

Network General’s Application Intelligence solution provides network and application managers a rich set of application metrics to isolate application performance degradation without overlapping tools or complicated packet decoding. Extensive identification of all applications traversing the network, coupled with response time information on application traffic and insight into the end user experience enables unique correlation of the health of business services to underlying IT infrastructure performance.

 
Mobile Intelligence

Network General’s Mobile Intelligence enables mobile wireless carriers to test, deploy, and operate 2.5G, 3G and emerging 4G mobile wireless data networks by providing protocol analysis and reporting tools for the wired/core side of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-2000, and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) networks.

 
Sniffer MultiSegment Intelligence
Instinctual Troubleshooting Unleashed

One of the most complex problems IT managers face is diagnosing the poor performance of business critical applications. Is the fault in the network, the application, the clients or the servers? Finding the root cause can be time consuming. Time is of the essence, as lost time translates into lost resources and lost opportunities. Until now, network professionals had to manually correlate network traces and determine the cause through a lengthy deductive process. Sniffer® MultiSegment Intelligence automates this tedious process, providing results useful to both network and application managers. Compatible with all Sniffer Enterprise Platforms, it uses sophisticated algorithms to correlate data, and then presents information on network traffic latency and response times.

 
Sniffer Administrator
Delivers Integrated Solutions Management and Automated Configuration across the Enterprise

Managing the health and performance of an enterprise network is a constant IT exercise. However, network administrators are increasingly under pressure to accomplish this task with fewer resources. They need comprehensive management tools that help them efficiently and effectively administer their networks. Administrator offers a single console that consolidates management of all Sniffer® platforms. Through this console, your IT staff can quickly and easily manage, administer and secure Sniffer instrumentation across the company’s network.

 
Sniffer NetVigil
Correlate Infrastructure Performance to the Delivery of Complex Business Services in Real-time

NetVigil™ delivers an easy-to-use console for managing business service performance. This IT performance management solution groups service-related technologies into logical Business Containers™ and unifies availability and performance monitoring of underlying network devices, applications and services. Now, business managers and IT staff alike can correlate real-time system and network status data to optimize service performance and availability. Both groups can also receive proactive alerts and custom reports based on their individual criteria.

 
Sniffer Visualizer
Visibility into Network Traffic Flows across the Enterprise

Visualizer enables IT departments to model user groups or geographic locations, analyze bandwidth and compare application usage per subnet. Easy to read dashboards and reports can be used to compare applications, servers, and network segment characteristics (bandwidth, response times, etc) from a single or multiple instrumentation point perspective. The number of reports, their flexibility and scope, and intuitive workflow allow network and application managers to rapidly identify, isolate and resolve IT faults.