The new nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance extends
intelligent Deep Packet Analysis capabilities to improve end-to-end
service delivery management
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 9, 2009--
NetScout
Systems (NASDAQ: NTCT) today announced the nGenius® InfiniStream®
2900 Series appliance, a lower capacity, compact form-factor member
of the nGenius InfiniStream intelligent Deep Packet Capture (iDPC)
appliance family. The new nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance
extends “always-on” service-level visibility and continuous packet
recording into more areas of the modern IP network, addressing the
increasing need for comprehensive packet-level visibility and in-depth
analysis of application and service traffic to better support end-to-end
Unified Service Delivery Management.
With a growing reliance on always-on, anytime/anywhere access to
business applications and services, IT organizations need to have a
better understanding of the operational health of the service delivery
environment. Now more than ever, IT professionals need extensive
service-level knowledge with the ability to conduct back-in-time
analysis of application and network traffic. While a number of different
data sources are available, Deep Packet Capture, combining network
packet analysis with packet storage, best enables IT staff to predict,
identify and resolve application performance degradations faster and
more efficiently. Until now, Deep Packet Capture capabilities have been
typically limited to the ingress/egress of the data center,
high-capacity links at the network core or at major aggregation points
due to physical device size and relatively high costs. Alternatively,
packet-based Probe technology has been deployed on secondary links and
in remote locations to collect traffic statistics with rather limited
on-demand packet capture capabilities. With today’s pervasive service
delivery challenges, IT personnel require more granular real-time and
historical visibility into the service delivery environment to optimize
performance and predict and prevent performance issues and speed the
problem resolution process.
“Polling results from recent Gartner conferences show that network
managers are increasingly being pressured to move up the stack, and not
just prevent network performance problems, but meet application
performance objectives,” said Debra Curtis, research vice president at
Gartner. “Out in departments and branch offices, users of business
applications are usually unfamiliar with the intricacies of IT and often
blame the network for any performance problems. With increased
visibility in these areas, network managers can correlate network,
unified communication service, and business application data to develop
an integrated picture of overall system behavior, helping to prevent
network performance problems and diagnose any issues that do occur.”
Leveraging the deployment-proven intelligent Deep Packet Capture
capabilities found in larger, higher capacity nGenius InfiniStream 6900
Series appliances, the new 2900 Series appliance has been designed and
purpose-built for deployment in areas where there are cost and space
constraints. Featuring 500 Gigabytes of storage capacity in a compact
1RU form factor, the nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance enables
InfiniStream technology to be deployed more affordably in areas closer
to the user, including mid-tier distribution points, wiring closets,
branch offices, and remote data centers.
Available with Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the nGenius
InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance continuously captures every packet
crossing the network, analyzing, indexing and storing these packets in
real-time, with a high degree of accuracy. Whether used in a standalone
mode or as part of the end-to-end, always-on nGenius Service Assurance
Solution, the nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance reliably stores
all network traffic providing statistical information about application
performance, network usage and related traffic patterns. Network
managers can access rich packet information in real-time or perform
comprehensive historical forensic analysis of events to maintain peak
performance of the service delivery environment and dramatically speed
the diagnosis and resolution of performance issues to prevent service
delivery degradations or downtime.
“Today’s IT organizations need better strategic insight into the health
and effectiveness of their service delivery environment. Having
visibility closer to the user has long been known as a means to this
end,” said Steven Shalita, vice president of marketing, NetScout
Systems. “The obstacle to achieving broader visibility has been that the
physical size and cost of InfiniStream devices limited widespread
deployment. The new nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance tackles
this head on, enabling IT organizations to extend intelligent Deep
Packet Capture capabilities to more network locations. As a result, IT
staff gains better insight into real-time service dynamics along with
immediate access to captured and stored packets for on-demand
retrospective forensic analysis. The result is better end-to-end service
delivery knowledge providing a more unified way in which to optimize and
protect the delivery of business applications and services.”
Migration Path for Existing NetScout Customers
Offering up to six times more storage and processing power than existing
former Network General Distributed Sniffer® devices and nGenius Probe
technology, the new InfiniStream 2900 Series cost-effectively extends
continuous packet capture capability to existing management environments
— further extending their analysis and service assurance analysis
capabilities to meet the needs of today’s growing network traffic and
application growth. Through December 31, 2009, NetScout is offering a
trade-in program that allows existing deployments of nGenius Probes and
former Network General Distributed Sniffer devices to be upgraded to
nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series Appliances.
Availability
The nGenius InfiniStream 2900 Series appliance is available now in
2-port and 4-port versions with support for 10/100/1000 copper and
SFP-based fiber Gigabit Ethernet. Pricing begins at less than $20,000.
Please contact NetScout or your NetScout authorized reseller for more
information.
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified
Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network
and application assurance. For 25 years, NetScout has delivered
breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and
comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence
enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These
solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and
service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and
capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius® and
Sniffer® solutions are deployed at more than 20,000 of the world’s
largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers, to
assure the network, applications, and service delivery to their users
and customers. More information about NetScout Systems is available at http://www.netscout.com.
NetScout, the NetScout Logo, nGenius, InfiniStream and Sniffer are
registered trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc.
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