Network Performance Management Solution for Energy and Utility Companies
Summary of information on this page:
NetScout’s Sniffer and NetScout Solutions meets the many formidable challenges faced by network managers in the energy industry today. With a single comprehensive system you can:
- Assure real-time access to capacity statistics needed to sell excess capacity in the open market
- Troubleshoot application degradations to energy production and distribution in real time
- Monitor and troubleshoot DNP3 for remote power management
Today's Energy Industry
An energy company’s main goal never changes: delivering power in a consistent manner to all. However, the daily activities necessary to accomplish that goal are varied and include:
- generating power
- sourcing supplemental power supplies
- installing and maintaining transmission lines
- reading meters
- billing and collection
- selling overcapacity to other energy companies
These services all contribute to energy companies’ increased dependence on the network for instantaneous updates regarding the production and delivery of resources to their customers and for sharing information across a widely distributed network of plant facilities, data centers, repair offices, and billing locations.
Business and Network Challenges in the Energy Industry
An increasing reliance upon networking technologies to automate business operations means that today’s energy companies need to:
- Assure timely repair of outages – scheduled and unplanned
- Maintain high availability to customer records
- Manage WAN / MPLS-based network capacity and budget planning activities
- Troubleshoot network and application response time issues
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity plans
NetScout Solutions Meet the Needs of Energy Companies
NetScout’s Sniffer and NetScout Solutions provide fully integrated real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, bandwidth management, and historical reporting functions, enabling the IT organizations at energy companies to more effectively deliver the time-sensitive details regarding energy generation and transmission necessary to maintain high service availability to all customers.
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| The Sniffer and NetScout Solution enables real-time analysis of applications used for tracking key energy and power company business applications, including DNP3. |
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