Network capacity planning is about balancing the needs and expectations of your network users with the realities of budgeting. To manage network capacity efficiently, it’s not enough to measure overall traffic utilization. Network managers need insight into what applications are using the link, when those applications are active, and who is using those applications. Without information on which applications are consuming bandwidth, corporations are forced to blindly upgrade to higher and higher speed networks and absorb higher operational costs.

The nGenius Service Assurance Solution enables network managers to analyze and report growth trends and usage patterns to make decisions about optimizing bandwidth, rescheduling activities or reallocating traffic. In addition to enterprise-wide baselines and forecasts, the nGenius Service Assurance Solution goes beyond basic utilization to identify the applications that consume bandwidth. The nGenius Service Assurance Solution helps network managers:

• Assure the network is optimized for business-critical services by identifying where resources are over- and under-utilized and adjusting to properly balance the workload
• Proactively combat network congestion by reporting on bandwidth growth and forecasting capacity shortfalls 
• Gain quantifiable business justification by understanding and reporting on which applications consume your network resources in order to postpone upgrades and justify growth & policy decisions 
• Tune traffic to optimize resources by identifying over- and under-utilized (physical and logical) segments so you can redistribute load and balance costs 
• Baseline current traffic patterns and response times to ensure new applications can be supported during peak activity periods and to watch for changes over time
• Plan enterprise-wide network capacity with a unified service assurance solution that will support all data sources and network types from the core to access layers to virtualized computing environments