netscout ngeniusone overview

| Bob Cronin | 26 November 2014 | Confidential | © 2013 NetScout Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.1

NetScout SystemsnGeniusONE

Unified Performance Monitoring

Bob Cronin

EMEA Engineering26 November 2014


NetScout Products In A Data Centre


nGenius 1500 & 3900 Packet Flow Switches

• Modular, highly scalable switch optimizedfor 10 GbE

• Up to 480 ports of 1/10 GbE + 24 ports of 40 GbE

• 100 GbE ready

• Over 8 Tbps switching fabric

• Ultra-low latency port-to-port and across switch fabric

• Advanced layer 2/3/4 traffic filtering and conditioning on every port with wire speed performance

• All features standard – no licensing or special modules for advanced features/services

• Redundant, non-stop operation for mission-critical environments

• Unified management and provisioning simplifies large-scale deployments

Data Center-Class Switching Platform Architected

for High-Performance, Low-Latency Networks


nGenius InfiniStream Appliances

• Continuous packet capture, analysis

and storage

• Advanced packet-flow performance

statistics on all monitored protocols

• Advanced data mining through

sophisticated indexing and filtering

algorithms

• Hardened, redundant systems support

• Variety of storage and performance

configurations to scale to any

environment

Flexible and reliable Intelligent Deep Packet Capture and Analysis

appliances supporting service assurance and network forensics


Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI)


nGenius InfiniStream Deployment Strategies

Core Dist.Access Remote OfficesDist.

WAN

7900

4500

1900

2900

4500

6900

2900

• APM & Server farms• Service aggregation points

• Primary traffic paths• High-volume branch offices

4500 Series-Best suited for:

• Access layers• Space-constrained links

• Lower storage needs• Small branch locations



• Datacenter core• High capacity links

• High storage needs• Modularity


Introducing nGeniusONE


nGeniusONE Unified Performance

Management Platform

• Service-oriented, top-down perspectiveof application and network performance

• Proactive real-time monitoring of service health, quality, availability and the resulting user experience

• Packet-flow based architecture enables unified monitoring across physical, virtual, and cloud applications

• Decisive, easy-to-use contextual workflows enable high level to low level analysis across multiple IT users

• Massive scalability to support large, high-volume, distributed environments


Integrated Analysis Architecture Streamlines

Performance Management Activities

Performance Analysis – multi-dimensional

analysis of application and network

performance correlated with all

interdependencies

Service Dashboard – real-time service

health and holistic status of all business

services with intelligent early warning for

proactive problem identification and triage

Deep-Dive Packet Analysis –

expert packet-level analysis and

decode for historical forensics

and reconstruction

Session Analysis – granular user

session tracing and analysis with

hop-by-hop transaction and latency

Multiple analysis tools consolidated into

a single plane of glass, with contextual

views supporting all performance

management activities


nGeniusONE Enables Service-Oriented,

Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Services Traverse a Highly Complex Delivery Environment

User Communities

Server Groups

Voice/

Video

Industry-SpecificServices

E-Mail

Cloud /

CRM

Any Service End-to-EndInside the data center, and across the enterprise


nGeniusONE Provides a Unique Service

View for Network and Application Teams

• Unified business perspective of complex service delivery environments

• Monitoring and recognition of ANY application - data, voice and video

• Service-oriented view reveals interactions between application, server and network

• Visualize transactions across tiers, server farms and distributed data centers

• Triage between network, application and server and between distributed applications

Service consumption in delivery context with all dependencies

Visualize service performance after it leaves the server

Macro view of a service, not an application component

Solves Problems Server-Focused APM Products Can’t…

Measures community user experience – region, group, location

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nGeniusONE Simplifies and Streamlines

Managing Service Delivery

Abstracts Applications into Simple Business

Services Resulting in:

Single-pane of glass with

correlated multi-hop,

network/ application

performance analysis

Multi-dimensional

analysis views speed

incident analysis

• Faster identification of emerging problems

• Faster isolation of likely problem domain

• Faster diagnosis and troubleshooting of incidents

• Faster resolution of incidents and service restoration

Advanced analytics

automates analysis and

detects anomalies to

quickly identify and

triage problems

Quickly isolates

problem to offending

infrastructure component

Supports both reactive

and proactive models

Supports both real-time

and historical analysis


Simple Workflows Enable Rapid

Triage and Problem Resolution

Service Dashboard

Alerts Indicates a Critical

Service Issue

Launch Application Service

Monitors to verify and

correlate service Impact

Cause: Database server

is unable to respond....


Service Dependency

• Simple Configuration

• Dynamic and service configuration view

• Identify

Server Application Failures

Server Loading

Server Latency

• Launch in Service Monitors

• Filtering

• Ability to print

Automatically Discover Server Farm Architectures


The Value of nGeniusONE for

Unified Service Delivery Management

• Enables a more efficient and automated service management strategy

• Addresses ITs biggest pain points – service availability, quality and performance and managing the User Experience

• Encompasses key IT operational requirements and meets multiple IT organizational needs

• Minimizes degradation and downtimeof critical business applications

• Delivers rich data that supports IT operations and decision making

• Consolidates multiple tools, improves collaboration, and simplifies IT Service management


nGeniusONE

Unified Communications

Server


nGeniusONE Unified Communications Server

• Real-time voice and video quality measurements with per-session QoE and signaling metrics representative of user experience

• Real-time dashboards with user-based service-level alerting

• Powerful troubleshooting and automated diagnostics with seamless drill-down to individual user sessions

• Flexible business-relevant service-level reporting

Proactive Service Management for Voice, Video, and Telepresence Unified Communications environments


App l i ca t i on -Focused UC Ana l ys i s

Critical Unified Communications

Performance Measurements

Vi d e o P e r f o r m a n c e

• Impact of IP impairments calibratedto endpoint characteristics

• Video application analysis

• Video compression artefacts

• Frame-rate and bit-rate

• Mid-call coding changes

• Impact of IP impairments calibrated to end point characteristics

• Listening quality

• Conversation quality

A u d i o P e r f o r m a n c e

• Video codec performance and errors• Video payload awareness (frame & service type)• Application behavior (bandwidth throttling)

• Signal/Noise Ratio • Speech level• Speech distortion

• Acoustic echo• Delay• Noise

Quickly isolate service impact beyond network

performance

Understand application-level behavior and impact

on user experience


Video Quality Assessments

• Detects change in

video application

behavior

• Assesses audio and

video together for video

conferences

• Detects video frames

affected (I/P/B)

• Identifies changes in

resolution during

sessions

Begin @ full 1080

resolution at 4Mbit/s

Mid-point @ 720

resolution and 1Mbit/sPayload Inspection


Summary


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