Monitoring Audio, Video, and Peer-to-Peer Applications
Distinguishing Business Use from Recreational Use in Your Network
Summary of information on this page:
The Challenges of Monitoring Streaming Applications
Recreational use of corporate networking resources is garnering a lot of attention these days – both for the costs associated with unnecessary bandwidth upgrades and also for the adverse impact on customers, partners, productivity, and revenue if application performance degrades. Streaming audio, video, and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are all vehicles that deliver both recreational and business services to end-users. Distinguishing which are appropriate uses of the network can be challenging.
Providing Visibility into Application Usage – Business or Recreational
The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution provides a unique combination of capabilities that enable IT staff to cost-effectively optimize application and network performance. The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution identifies well-known, custom, complex (i.e., SAP or Citrix), and web-based applications, including peer-to-peer, multimedia video, streaming audio and online shopping sites.
The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution can track the more popular peer-to-peer applications that might find their way into business networks. KaZaA, Shareaza, Morpheus, BearShare, LimeWire, eDonkey, eMule and iMesh are predefined in the nGenius® Server and can be easily enabled as a defense against bandwidth consumption due to employee recreational use.
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The NetScout Solution monitors and tracks virtually any application to help IT organizations distinguish between business use and recreational use of expensive network resources. Recreational use can include:
- peer-to-peer applications such as Morpheus or LimeWire
- online video sites like YouTube, MTV and ESPN
- streaming radio sites such as Rhapsody and MusicMatch
- online shopping sites such as eBay, Overstock.com and BizRate
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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
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