Monitoring Audio, Video, and Peer-to-Peer Applications
Distinguishing Business Use from Recreational Use in Your Network
Summary of information on this page:
NetScout Solution for Monitoring Recreational Applications
The NetScout Performance Management Solution is a vital tool for helping enterprises manage and optimize their network resources. It provides the flexibility to:
- Identify business applications versus applications used for recreational purposes
- Monitor and justify capacity growth by quantifying and qualifying your traffic
- Quickly isolate network and application problems
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 NetScout Solution provides a unique combination of capabilities that cost-effectively optimize the performance of enterprise and government agency networks. The NetScout 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 NetScout 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 category links below:
- Network Analysis and Reporting – packet/flow-based analysis software for comprehensive network visibility
- Advanced Intelligence – early detection and in-depth analysis of complex or specialized application services
- Continuous Packet Capture – long-term packet capture for real-time and retrospective network troubleshooting
- Distributed Network Monitoring – robust, versatile monitoring devices for LAN and WAN environments
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