NetScout’s Sniffer® and nGenius® advanced intelligence products provide heightened awareness of network conditions to speed problem identification and resolution. Providing both high-level and detailed information, NetScout solutions enable interdepartmental collaboration leading to improved application performance on the network. Coupled with analysis software, NetScout’s advanced network intelligence provides early detection and advanced analysis to ensure that the network is operating at peak efficiency by:

• Providing early detection of network problems in order to minimize mean time to resolution and avoid impacting the end user
• Detecting abnormal changes in network or application performance to uncover conditions of high interest for further investigation
• Enabling collaboration by providing common troubleshooting tools easily understood by several departments
• Analyzing complex or specialized applications such as VoIP packet-based call control and multimedia transmissions, FIX-based financial applications, or mobile wireless protocols, to achieve more in-depth visibility into your network performance

Products & Descriptions       nGenius K2 Used in conjunction with nGenius Performance Manager, K2’s service alarms and virtual topology maps provide a high-level view of the health of application services, as well as automatically detects anomalous changes in network and application behavior.           nGenius Analytics for Flows Used in conjunction with nGenius Performance Manager for NetFlow to provide automated, proactive early detection of performance anomalies and streamline diagnosis of root cause.           Sniffer Application Intelligence * Operates with Sniffer instrumentation to provide application monitoring of "out of the box" and custom applications, speeding problem identification and resolution. Integrates with Visualizer to provide long-term reporting.           Sniffer FIX Intelligence * Provides predefined and customizable graphical views for analysis of FIX-based order flows. Powered by nGenius InfiniStream.           Sniffer Mobile Intelligence * Leverages Sniffer instrumentation to enable mobile wireless carriers to troubleshoot issues related to subscriber registration, network latency, dropped packets, application response times, as well as Mobile IP and GPRS Tunneling Protocols (GTP).           Sniffer Multicast Intelligence Captures market feed datastreams for financial services firms that transmit and consume multicast market data feeds. Powered by nGenius InfiniStream.           Sniffer Multi-Segment Analysis Combines and correlates trace files from multiple Sniffer instrumentation points to enable multi-segment and multi-tier analysis, comparative session reporting and logical application mapping.           Sniffer VoIP Intelligence * Leverages Sniffer instrumentation to analyze and troubleshoot issues related to VoIP jitter, delay, packet loss, and packet sequencing on converged networks.

* nGenius System users should review nGenius Performance Manager capabilities for application and response time monitoring, VoIP capabilities, and support for FIX-based or mobile service provider-specific applications.