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Visibility gets you to Root Cause Problems, Faster

Network owners are under pressure to monitor and control the activity on their networks. Organizations are doing their best to detect and prevent inappropriate use and diagnose problems quickly, but they need to know that their best is good enough.  In many cases, “good enough” is at odds with the level of investment many organizations can justify.

Our Network Monitoring Offerings cover these key areas:

Monitoring Visibility

Most organizations have existing network and security tools and monitoring devices.  A key challenge is gaining access and visibility into the network traffic these tools need.  Network Taps and SPAN ports have down-sides addressed by Anue’s Monitoring Optimization products.

  • Aggregate, direct and filter traffic from any link to existing tools to increase visibility and coverage, and maximize tool ROI  
  • Eliminate SPAN and TAP shortages - No more tradeoffs between tools and access points
  • Monitor 10G networks with 1G tools – Upgrade the core, and preserve tool investments
  • Achieve maximum coverage of even the most complex, multi-tiered network infrastructures  
  • Filter out irrelevant traffic, to eliminate tool oversubscription
  • Fast and easy-to-use GUI-based setup and management, with intelligent, easy-to-use filtering rules 

Packet Analyzers and Probes

Most network monitoring approaches are based on capturing live network traffic, at the packet level, as it flows by.  Enable continuous, on-demand monitoring for the key links in your network infrastructure, and flexible capabilities to add more monitoring without impacting service, or taking down links.

  • Capture packet streams on demand, with filtering, to diagnose root cause problems
  • Monitor, analyze and assure the end-to-end performance of applications and services
  • Drill-down from comprehensive network monitoring views to application traffic flows, to full packet payload details

Continuous Packet Capture

Some environments require continuous surveillance.  Capturing all traffic that traverses your network, for a period of time, enables looking back in time, to when the problem – or security breach – actually happened.

Continuous Packet Capture solutions, that continuously capture and record packet streams to disk storage, for continuous surveillance and “back-in-time” forensic analysis:

  • Capture and record packet streams with high-capacity, always-on, Deep Packet Capture, enabling retrospective analysis and “back-in-time” forensics
  • Monitor, analyze and assure the end-to-end performance of applications and services
  • Drill-down from comprehensive network monitoring views to application traffic flows, to full packet payload details

Performance Analysis Software

Collecting network traffic is not enough.  Getting full value from your investment in probes, packet analyzers and continuous packet capture requires the performance analysis capabilities provided by the software that goes with them.  

  • Drill-down from network monitoring views to application traffic flows, to full packet payload details, to diagnose performance issues and network problems  
  • Identify abnormal changes in physical and virtual link utilization, application response time and VoIP quality, to focus troubleshooting efforts, and reduce mean time to repair  
  • Baseline response times and current traffic patterns, report on growth, and forecast capacity shortfalls
  • Analyze growth trends and usage patterns, to make decisions about optimizing bandwidth, and adjusting activity schedules, traffic routing or prioritization policies 

Wireless Service Assurance

Today’s Wireless Networks pose a unique, but related challenge for Network Monitoring.  The solutions discussed above may address needs for the wireless network packet core.  For monitoring the Radio Access Network, different solutions are needed.  

  • Trace activity and diagnose issues for any mobile subscriber throughout the mobile core and access network
  • Monitor, trace and depict full Call Trace and protocol details across-technologies to assure quality of service
  • Comprehensive RNC monitoring and analysis capabilities on user-selected links, from a centralized location, on-demand, without scheduling

Overview / Benefits

  • Enable effective visibility into Live Network Traffic, to monitor, analyze and assure the end-to-end performance of applications and services
  • Eliminate SPAN and TAP shortages, and monitor 10G networks with existing 1G tools
  • Aggregate, direct and filter traffic from any link to existing tools to increase visibility and coverage, and maximize tool ROI  
  • Capture and record packet streams with high-capacity, always-on, deep packet capture, enabling “back-in-time” retrospective analysis  
  • Discover, recognize and monitor all applications traversing your network
  • Drill-down from network monitoring views to application traffic flows, to full packet payload details
  • Roll out new applications and services with confidence, and assure service continuity, performance, and quality of experience
  • Baseline response times and current traffic patterns, report on growth, and forecast capacity shortfalls
  • Identify abnormal changes in traffic, response time and VoIP quality, analyze growth trends and usage patterns  

Products

Our Network Monitoring Offerings include:

  • Monitoring Optimization products from Anue help link test and monitoring tools to any traffic on the network, reducing the need for SPAN ports and taps, adapting interface speeds, and filtering packet flows, so each tool is fed only the data it needs.  Empowered can also source passive or active network taps, for different speeds and technologies, and related products, to offer a complete network monitoring solution  
  • Broad support for most LAN, WAN and Wireless links and topologies, transport and application layer protocols, including LAN Probes for Ethernet/Fast Ethernet, GigE and 10 GigE, and WAN, ATM and POS Probes supporting interfaces from T3(DS3)/E3, to OC-3c/STM-1 to OC-48c/STM-16c
  • nGenius® Collector for NetFlow and IP SLA Data integrates this performance data with data from other sources, to create unified views and reports  
  • nGenius® Integrated Agents for Cisco® ISR extends always-on service assurance capabilities out to the branch with a solution that integrates into a branch router
  • nGenius Virtual Agents enable visibility and monitoring for VMware® ESX™ and ESXi™ platforms
  • nGenius® InfiniStream® Deep Packet Capture Appliances support extensive back-in-time forensic analysis, with always-on, intelligent capture
  • For continuous packet capture with greater emphasis on security, Niksun’s NetVCR and NetDetector platforms address network performance and security surveillance, with support for LAN, MAN and WAN interfaces, plus a portable network monitoring appliance in a robust luggable appliance
  • Sniffer Application Intelligence - speeds performance analysis and problem resolution, with application-aware statistics, and integrated Sniffer Experts and Decodes, with support for more than 200 well-known applications, including SAP, Citrix or .NET, custom applications, VoIP, video, instant messaging, peer to peer, and multicast applications, plus web and virtualized applications
  • Niksun NetOmni™ is an enterprise network and service delivery management portal that enables real-time, contextual visibility of enterprise infrastructure and business service health
  • NexusINSIGHT monitors the mobile radio access network (RAN), with a centralized protocol analyzer, and distributed passive probes.  NexusNETVIEW provides end-to-end visibility of signalling traffic in wireline, wireless/mobile and NGN networks.  Both solutions support a wide range of wireless protocols, including GSM, GPRS, UMTS (HSDPA), CDMA, as well as access networks (V5, ISDN) and SS7 networks.
  • Nexus Telecom also offers a suite of solutions for service verification and testing, roaming functionality, OSS billing, and performance management.

Related Offerings

  • Our Security & Forensics Offerings extend network performance and security surveillance with real-time detection and alerting, and “back-in-time” forensics and analysis
  • Our Application Testing Offerings help optimize applications and services like legacy and packet Voice and Video, and emulate the application layer traffic of massive numbers of web users
  • Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you optimize the performance, availability, security and scalability of applications running on physical and virtual servers, and their interconnections to storage, networks and related data center infrastructure.  
  • Our Network Testing Offerings focus on performance, interoperability and conformance testing for network infrastructure, mainly 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet with realistic testing of data and control planes, and application layer protocols


Empowered Value-Add

Today’s complex multi-tier networks, asymmetric routing, and increasing speeds and volumes of traffic make effective network monitoring a challenge. The extent your business depends on optimal application performance makes effective monitoring a must.

Each customer’s needs and environment are unique, and engineering the right solution only sounds easy.  

Empowered can help you:

  • Review your network and security infrastructure, the location of key data sources, and assess the monitoring assets, skills, and processes you have in place  
  • Determine which functionality requirements take precedence, to effectively support your environment, users, applications and customers
  • Validate legal and compliance requirements, and what that implies for your network monitoring strategy
  • Differentiate the must-have requirements your monitoring solution must address from the optional capabilities you can address cost-effectively
  • Engineer the right visibility and monitoring solutions to address your priority needs, and budget
  • Deploy and integrate the solutions into your environment, and help define and implement the processes your team needs to succeed
  • Support you all the way, with ad-hoc and in-depth training, scripting support and the integration help you need to get started, and achieve your goals

Trust Empowered to help you architect, implement and integrate a Network Monitoring solution to match your needs and budget, that will help you succeed.

 

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