NetScout Solution for IP Multicast Applications
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NetScout Solution for IP Mulitcast
The complexity of today’s networks makes it more difficult to troubleshoot issues that impact IP Multicast applications. The NetScout Performance Management Solution provides the key to understanding and resolving problems with a comprehensive set of real-time information about the multiple applications and technologies in the network. These details facilitate quick and efficient diagnosis and eliminate impediments to IP Multicast application performance, speeding mean-time-to-repair and ensuring the highest performance levels of these business-critical services.
nGenius provides the following benefits:
- Helps to quickly isolate and solve problems by providing context to performance issues, revealing IP Multicast applications side-by-side the other business applications that use the same network resources
- Optimizes the day-to-day delivery of key IP Multicast applications through proactive management of application and bandwidth growth
- Exposes how the business uses IP Multicast and which subscription groups generate the most interest
- Reduces the total cost of owning performance management by providing a single, holistic solution to monitor and report on all networked applications, including IP Multicast
Performance Challenges in an IP Multicast Environment
As organizations look for cost-effective, bandwidth-conserving technologies for media-rich and simultaneous-user applications, IP Multicast has gained serious attention. However, managing such an environment can be difficult because there are not many tools or methodologies for monitoring and reporting on the multicast domain. As a result, network engineers often devote a great deal of time trying to ascertain the location and nature of a problem, rather than focus on solving the problem itself. In addition, the bursty nature of IP Multicast traffic complicates capacity planning for traffic engineers. As IP Multicast applications continue to become more prevalent in the business environment, corporations need the capability to manage these applications in concert with the rest of their business-critical infrastructure.
NetScout Solution Meets the Need to Manage the Performance of IP Multicast Applications
The NetScout Performance Management Solution incorporates real-time and historical reporting of all networked applications, including those delivered via IP Multicast, eliminating the need for separate products to manage each individual application. It monitors and reports on IP Multicast and TIBCO IP Multicast applications exactly as any other networked application, such as HTTP or SAP. Displaying IP Multicast side-by-side unicast-based applications as they compete for resources provides total visibility and context into the global networking environment, with the ability to determine how they are impacting one another. Therefore, IT professionals gain the knowledge and insight they need to ensure service levels, detect and quickly troubleshoot degradations, support intelligent capacity planning and report performance results to the enterprise.
- Enables business-relevant decision making and reporting – identifies individual IP Multicast groups and TIBCO protocols as unique applications, providing data such as volume, utilization, publisher-to-group conversation statistics, and the capability to perform packet decodes of multicast protocols (e.g., IGMP, PIM, RTP)
- Displays details down to sub-second granularity in order to troubleshoot microburst incidents
- Provides the unique capability to troubleshoot and to isolate network vs. client issues by joining an IP Multicast session
- Side-by-side displays of IP Multicast and other business-critical application information, provides the context and comparison required to quickly and effectively address network and application performance issues.
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| The NetScout Solution identifies IP Multicast groups as unique business applications, including those that use TIBCO for reliable delivery. Here we see “Reuters Data” and “Live Training” both IP Multicast-based applications. |
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- 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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