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Network Monitoring and management is a broad subject but from the Bitrate point of view network monitoring and management essentially has to deliver real value to the organisation. Colectively the organisations network monitoring and management suite of solutions should cater for the following:

Application aware Multi data import 3-click analysis collaboration of business units Business value of IT wireless LAN and network TAPS

Application aware

Applications today make up the critical glue that helps our organisation tick. The solution must be able to understand the intracacies of how the applications form the organisations business services.

Bitrate’s solution set includes:

  • Solutions for understanding NetFlow which helps the organisation understan capacity planning and who/what is using the bandwidth
  • Solutions that help with in-depth developer level troubleshooting in order to reduce MTTR.
  • Deep packet inspection in order to help understand application performance and to truelly understand all applications from a security perspective

Multi data import

The solution set that the organisation uses should incorporate multiple data imports including:

  • Inline (via TAPS) or span packet capture and deep packet inspection
  • WMA
  • SNMP including utilisation, cpu, video, voice, storage etc
  • Syslog
  • VoIP/video analysis
Collaboration of business units

Finger pointing is well known in the IT industry but with the correct monitoring in place all stake holders are on the same page. The responsible entity just gets down to their duty faster.

3–click analysis

Root cause analysis is critical for an organisation to get on top of problems as they occur. To help reduce MTTR (mean time to repair) an intuitive and simple 3-click analysis needs to be available to speed up the process.

This also referes to the solutions intuitive interface and ease of use.

Identify Network Slowdowns
Business Value of IT

This is probably the most important aspect of the solution. The network monitoring and management solution should be able to provide value to the business daily.

If the solution monitors all applications in an organisation and intricately understands each tier within each application then it could be used to determine efficiencies of processes and efficency of delivery to end users or clients. This will be used in the organisation “continuous service improvement” or CSI projects.

The data gleaned should be used to determine where organisational investment should be made, for example; in the network or in the data centre infrustructure. Once the investment is made it should be possible to use the solution to record the improvement.

Wireless LAN

Often the wireless LAN is forgotten in the monitoring solution but this is an aspect of many networks that is growing imensely. Wireless LAN also happens to be the area of the networks that experiences the most issues. Added to this is the security around wireless LAN is most often forgotten but it is the most vulnerable. Why? Because wireless is accesable whereever there is signal!

Have a look at our wireless solutions.

Intrusion prevention 24X 7 WiFi Security PCI Automated Threat Update BYOD Mobile solution Enterprise wide solution 802.11ac

Network TAPS (Network Packet Broker)

There are many challenges around deep packet inspection and network recording. These include; span port contention, monitoring equipment not able to cope with traffic load, multiple tools needing access, security of data, geographically dispersed and many more.

Essentially network engineers, monitoring departments and security teams all need access to traffic within the network environment. The network monitoring and management solution needs a foundation which provides this with ease. Gartner calls this solution a “Network Packet Broker”.


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