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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Applications:
VISUAL NETWORKS UpTime SELECT
ALLOWS DELIVERY APPLICATION
Visual Networks, a leading provider of performance management solutions,
announced new Visual UpTime Select capability for verification of application
delivery across both high-speed and international IP networks. With the
addition of the new Visual UpTime Select OC-3 and E1 Analysis Service Elements
(ASEs), Visual Networks' performance management system now provides real-time
and historical network and application visibility across high- bandwidth
networks employing mixed or homogeneous MPLS, private IP, frame relay and ATM
circuits. These complex, high-speed network environments are commonly used by
large organizations including government agencies and multi-national
corporations.
As enterprise networks grow in capacity and size, IT administrators demand
network and application performance management solutions with the high-speed,
high-bandwidth data collection capability necessary to ensure that critical
business applications perform at optimal levels and are not disrupted by
unauthorized or "recreational" applications. Visual UpTime Select's new OC-3
ASE enables large organizations, such as government agencies, to optimize
their infrastructure as they roll out new applications, add remote office
sites, upgrade circuits or introduce new converged technologies such as voice
or video over IP.
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"Given our complex mix of underlying transport technologies, gaining this
level of IP performance visibility at our major high speed head-end locations
is critical to our operation," said Paul Berry, vice president of network
services at First Services in St. Louis. "Visual UpTime Select's in-depth
real-time and historical views of IP-based applications at OC-3 speeds enable
us to solve connectivity and application performance problems much faster than
we could achieve before."
The OC-3 and E1 ASEs are the latest members of the Visual UpTime Select ASE
family of specialized hardware elements available for installation at key
network locations for intelligent and accurate data collection. Visual
Networks ASEs enable highly scalable data collection with local storage to
eliminate the need for frequent polling, thereby significantly reducing
management traffic overhead. The Visual UpTime Select system supports a
variety of IP transport technologies, interfaces and speeds, including 56
kbps, T1/FT1, DS3, E3 and now E1 and OC-3.
Every Visual Networks ASE ships with Visual UpTime Select Service Summary
software that gives IT administrators an intuitive, Web-based view of circuit
status and early warning of degradations or failure conditions, by displaying
status and threshold events from each network location. From the Service
Summary screen, IT administrators can investigate problems, generate reports,
track the problem in real time or back in time from the Visual UpTime Select
Server, which archives data from the ASEs and provides a series of real-time
and historical views.
In addition to collecting network performance data used for event
monitoring,
troubleshooting, traffic capture, and planning and reporting purposes, the new
OC-3 and E1 ASEs support IP service level agreements (SLAs) so that Visual
UpTime Select customers can monitor availability, throughput and round-trip
delay metrics. In addition, the new ASEs can track multi-protocol activity and
gather SLA data for IP Class of Service (CoS) traffic.
"The new Visual UpTime Select OC-3 ASE is a critical high-speed extension
of
our unique performance management capability. As enterprise customers continue
to build out their private IP networks by adding more remote sites and
capacity, they demand real-time collection of network performance data across
their network at the highest speeds possible," said Tim Koubek, vice president
of enterprise and government sales at Visual Networks. "Our government
customers tend to have some of the largest enterprise networks with multiple
remote sites and our OC-3 ASE will allow them to better manage site- to-site
connectivity, SLAs, IP CoS, latency and other network service metrics.
Similarly, our new E1 ASE enables us to better address the needs of our
international customers and extends our performance management capability to
international locations, where the pain and cost of application downtime are
often the most severe."
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