using qos and liveaction to solve application performance programs across the wan
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Download the LiveAction 14-Day Trial from http://liveaction.com/download-qos/ Applications running on today’s networks are mission critical or latency sensitive. So enterprises need to adopt QoS or Quality of Service that control how traffic is prioritized and handled during congestion. Take a look at this presentation to understand why LiveAction's QoS solution is easy to deploy, and how it provides powerful monitoring and analytics tools plus quick diagnosis of application performance issues through visual displays.TRANSCRIPT
USING QoS TO SOLVE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS ACROSS THE WAN
CONTROL
AUTOMATION
VISUALIZATION
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Using QoS to Solve Application Performance Problems Across the WAN
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Today’sIT Challenges
KeyConsiderations
AvailableSolutions
Today’s IT Challenges
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Quality of Service(QoS)
Troubleshooting Cisco Solutions Thousands of Apps Network Outages Total Cost toOwnership (TCO)
Poor voice and video over IP
Poor application performance
Underperforming mission-critical apps (ERP)
Challenges of multi-site enterprises using constrained WAN links
90% of trouble-shooting time is spent identifying (not fixing) the problem
QoS is built into Cisco routers and switches
Difficult to learn and deploy
Time consuming and error-prone CLI
Business-critical apps
Latency-sensitive apps like voice
Bandwidth-hungry recreational apps
Apps that IT didn’t authorize
Reduce/eliminate service interruptions
Human configuration errors cause 50%-80% of all network outages
How do all of these challenges impact TCO?
Drilling Down on QoS
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QoS management is the collection of mechanisms that control how traffic is prioritized and handled during congestion
All these QoS tools rely on traffic classification:the better the classification, the better the QoS
Most common QoS tools Packets Packets
Clas
sify
LFI
Priority Queue
Class Based Queue
Class Based Queue
Class Based Queue
Default
QueueSetting
Mark Shape Police WRED
Drilling Down on QoS
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To make the process as manageable as possible, QoS deployments need to take into account:
QoS needs of the organization Current network architecture Applications used by the staff Traffic running over the network QoS capabilities available in the network devices
With QoS Without QoS
Visibility and analysis Protection of real-time and
high priority data applications
Free for all No protection of critical data,
voice or video
Key Considerations
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Ease of use
Look for these capabilities:
Visual Visio-like diagrams but with real-time and historical flows for quick diagnosis of performance issues
Full visibility into devices and policies
Key Considerations
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FlexibilityLook for these capabilities:
Copy and deploy an existing policy to multiple network devices
Deploy cloud-based and on-premise business applications
Work in MPLS, DMVPN, Performance Routing (PfR) and Intelligent WAN environments
Accommodate on-the-fly QoS policy adjustments
Key Considerations
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Power of solutionLook for these capabilities:
Powerful Monitoring Effective Management Scalability
Deep application awareness Comprehensive monitoring and
analysis Robust troubleshooting real-time
and historical capabilities
System intelligence to facilitate creation and execution of effective QoS policies
Instant validation of QoS policy changes
Fast resolution of application performance issues
Synthetic traffic generation and analysis for measuring the impact of QoS policies in a controlled manner
Thousands of network devices and millions of flows per second
Works with Cisco advanced technologies
Finding the Best Solution
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End-to-end flow
visualization for a holistic view of the
network
Easy to deploy, configure, monitor and analyze - with
Cisco advanced technologies such as QoS, Medianet, PfR, AVC, AX, NetFlow and FnF
Quick diagnosis of application
performance issues through visual displays
What to look for to find the best, most cost-effective solution
QoS graphical control to
troubleshoot and fix issues
Instant validation of QoS policy
changes
LiveAction’s Solution Delivers on All Fronts
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End-to-end flow
visualization for a holistic view of the
network
Easy to deploy, configure, monitor and analyze - with
Cisco advanced technologies such as QoS, Medianet, PfR, AVC, AX, NetFlow and FnF
Quick diagnosis of application
performance issues through visual displays
QoS graphical control to
troubleshoot and fix issues
Instant validation of QoS policy
changes
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