Performance Management Solutions for Monitoring Encrypted Government Networks
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NetScout Solution for Encrypted Networks
The NetScout Solution can monitor application traffic flows in encrypted government network environments, providing the visibility necessary for accurate and effective:
- Network troubleshooting and fault prevention
- Capacity planning
- Service-level management
- Alarming and reporting
The Challenges of Monitoring Encrypted Networks
Encrypted networks are a cost-effective method for government agencies to communicate securely with regional offices, bases, and remote field locations worldwide. Increasingly, the IT staff at military and civilian agencies are deploying encryption technologies to deliver private, sensitive, or top-secret information across the government’s wide area network.
Application-level visibility into encrypted networks is a major challenge for government IT organizations. While the technology secures network traffic and packets, it also obscures the detailed data most network professionals require for troubleshooting and traffic engineering.
The NetScout Solution and Site Monitoring
NetScout’s Performance Management Solution offers a number of key features to monitor application traffic flows in encrypted network environments. The NetScout Solution’s Site Monitoring feature provides visibility through multiple WAN cloud technologies, including encrypted and/or VPN deployments, including AES, DES, TDEA, IPsec.
Typically the WAN router at a government facility applies the encryption algorithm at one of the endpoints. When this happens, the trunk connected to that router at the point of demarcation will be obscured, making WAN-side application-level visibility difficult, if not impossible. By deploying nGenius Probes on the LAN side of the network and using the subnet address or IP addresses assigned to the remote locations, Site Monitor overcomes the challenge of viewing application flow details in encrypted networks.
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| nGenius Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet Probes are deployed on the LAN side of the WAN router of an encrypted WAN segment. With Site Monitoring configured, IT staff can obtain the necessary visibility into application flow traffic to and from their globally distributed locations. |
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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 Collector - Delivers NetFlow and IP SLA-based data to the nGenius Performance Manager
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