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Networking:
RouteScience Software Ensures
Quality Over Hybrid Networks
RouteScience Technologies, a leading provider of adaptive networking
software
(ANS), announced RouteScience ANS version 5 (ANS5), the latest edition of its
flagship software product that maximizes distributed application availability
over any combination of private or public network fabric. ANS5 breaks new
ground in adaptive wide area network (WAN) management, adding greater depth
and sophistication to its already detailed understanding of applications'
network service needs, as well as significantly enhancing user visibility into
how WAN anomalies affect business-critical applications. Guided by business
policy descriptions, the software treats all of the various WAN connections as
an aggregate virtual application delivery system, and optimizes the user
experience in real time, thereby dramatically reducing calls to the help
desk.
RouteScience ANS5's application-focused WAN management capabilities go
beyond
simply monitoring and reporting on the degree of network latency, loss and
jitter that cause brownouts and other network problems. ANS5 applies its
knowledge of the specific network service needs of Web, enterprise,
voice-over-IP (VoIP), and multimedia applications to assess all available
paths through the WAN, determine the best path based on specific application
needs and current network conditions, and adjust the path through the network
automatically in real time to assure the appropriate levels of service at the
lowest cost for each type of application. ANS5 documents the assessment and
decision-making processes extensively in a variety of traffic and
application-based reports, as well as a live troubleshooting report for those
rare occasions when it cannot automatically bypass an outage in the corporate
WAN and an operator must be alerted to take action.
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"Businesses increasingly depend on IT to make them more competitive, but a
poorly functioning application delivery infrastructure not only incurs higher
costs and delivers lower performance, the reduced application availability
also lowers productivity and impacts revenue," said Mark Lazar, CEO of
RouteScience. "ANS5 makes enterprise applications work better by significantly
eliminating or reducing the impact of problems in the application delivery
infrastructure, assuring the highest availability while optimizing cost and
performance."
Adapts To Service Demands Of Enterprise Applications
Similar in concept to the way power and telephone companies manage their
networks, RouteScience ANS5 makes the wide area network adapt to the service
demands of enterprise applications based on business policies, as well as on
what the software learns dynamically as it monitors and assesses application
quality. Its business-level view of network operations focuses on how
applications -- rather than networks -- are performing, ensuring continuous
availability of business-critical applications. This translates directly to
both top-line revenue and bottom-line dollar impact through greater
productivity and lower costs. Further, because ANS5 instantaneously shifts
traffic to the lowest cost path, businesses are better able to negotiate more
favorable rates from their service providers. ANS5's ability to quantify
upstream service level achievement helps businesses ensure suppliers are
meeting their SLAs.
"ANS5 makes possible the kind of highly available, highly reliable,
adaptive
wide area network we need to support our operations," said Michael Smith, CTO
at Forbes.com. "The growing use of complex, distributed applications for
everything from wireless mobile sales forces to offshore outsourced call
centers requires a highly available and reliable application delivery
infrastructure, and RouteScience is the only company today providing this
capability."
ANS5's sophisticated application models allow the software to assess
application quality with the knowledge of the network services needs of Web,
enterprise, voice-over-IP and multimedia applications. The models take into
consideration the relative impact of different types of network impairment
(latency, loss, and jitter), which are evaluated in a manner consistent with
each specific type of application. Each of ANS5's application models can be
fine-tuned to correspond to a specific customer's application environment.
RouteScience ANS5 offers a wide variety of application-oriented reports,
and
the main dashboard provides a summary view of key operational aspects of ANS5.
The software also offers a report-only mode that recommends best path updates
and calculates the potential for increased availability, improved performance
or reduced cost but does not communicate them to the network infrastructure.
This allows the IT staff to review the improvement RouteScience ANS5 could
make before actually allowing the automatic adjustments to occur.
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