In today’s rapidly evolving technology environment, the IT organization is charged with delivering applications and services to users in a predictable, reliable and cost-effective way.  High speed, global networks are host to complex, revenue-carrying financial trading services, virtualized, Web-based order processing applications, patient-care electronic records and medical images, and converged, latency-intolerant voice and video. These business services represent millions of dollars in client portfolios, high-value product revenue, safe and rapid patient treatment, and quality phone conversations with customers and partners. Disruptions as minor as millisecond delays, or as dramatic as hours of complete application unavailability result in severe financial loss, irreparable customer dissatisfaction, and health implications.

Network and application analysis products from NetScout provide deployment proven, valuable insight into the dynamic nature of data, voice and video running across modern IP networks. The Service Assurance Solution from Netscout includes portable field service tools, dedicated hot-spot segment-by-segment deep packet analysis, and end-to-end always-on service assurance with intelligent early warning capabilities. These solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and capacity planning of the network infrastructure, and protecting the user.

The result is better end-to-end service delivery knowledge to optimize and protect the delivery of business services, while also predicting and preventing service impacting issues. This allows the IT organization to more efficiently maintain the integrity of service delivery and the quality of the user experience, freeing time to focus on strategic projects rather than reacting to problems.”

Predictive analysis allows the IT organization to:

• Identify abnormal increases and decreases in physical and virtual link utilization, application utilization, application response time and VoIP quality.
• Associate anomalous traffic with offending applications to focus troubleshooting efforts and shorten mean time to repair.
• Identify short-lived problems, intermediate-term issues, and hard-to-catch, long-term performance drifts.
• Provide increased visibility into all monitored interfaces, including trunks, virtual interfaces, sites and QoS levels.
• Combine related anomalies into a single, intelligent alert to streamline the process of diagnosing multiple alerts generated from the same root cause