Branch Office & WAN
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Branch Offices Today
Branch offices continue to proliferate despite recent trends promoting Data Center consolidation and Virtualization. A recent survey showed that as many as 80% of new hires are located in branch offices. Remote employees expect similar application performance as that seen at headquarters even though traffic must go through a WAN. With past trends pushing out services to the branch combined with relatively few IT staff to support remote offices, network issues can wreak havoc on corporate productivity. Limited visibility at the branch only compounds this problem.
Managing Branch Offices and WAN Environments Effectively
The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution provides unprecedented visibility across the modern IP network and empowers IT organizations to:
- Predict service delivery issues with intelligent early warning that leverages key performance indicators (KPIs) and automated behavior analysis with action-oriented alerts in order to recognize when bandwidth-intensive applications are causing service-impacting issues on the WAN or local branch LAN.
- Effectively manage application and network performance with unified visibility providing views into the traffic and services running at critical branch locations and across the enterprise.
- Optimize the branch WAN infrastructure and plan for future capacity needs with short- and long-term capacity views. The nGenius Service Assurance Solution delivers historical analysis and trending that identifies changes in application usage, allowing IT organizations to optimize the existing infrastructure or to upgrade links only when necessary.
- Speed problem resolution with back-in-time forensics minimizing the need for technician dispatch and dramatically reducing the time and expense of problem resolution with intelligent Deep Packet Capture (iDPC). By leveraging iDPC, the nGenius solution enables focused diagnosis of branch service delivery issues such as local dropped VoIP calls or end-users experiencing quality issues with remote applications. Direct-connect interfaces are available to quickly get to the data regardless of where the appliance is physically located.
Enabling Products
To find out more information about NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer products click on the appropriate links below:
- nGenius K2 Service Delivery Manager - Assures the availability and performance of business services with at-a-glance status and early warning of performance degradations of service traffic
- nGenius Performance Manager - Comprehensive software for network and application performance, service validation and optimization and planning across the modern IP network
- Sniffer Intelligence - Focused application and voice performance analysis for the modern IP Network
- nGenius InfiniStream Deep Packet Capture Appliances - Dedicated intelligent deep packet capture appliances to support service assurance and unparalleled application and network performance analysis
- nGenius Probes - Security-hardened distributed monitoring devices that collect key network metrics utilized by the nGenius Performance Management System
- nGenius Integrated Agent - A software-based intelligent data source that is integrated into third-party network equipment to provide visibility into the network edge and branch environments
- nGenius Collector - Delivers NetFlow and IP SLA-based data to the nGenius Performance Manager
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