AdventNet NetFlow Analyzer Offers Enhanced Application Visibility Using Cisco NBAR.PLEASANTON, Calif. -- AdventNet Inc., the leading provider of affordable enterprise IT management software today announced the immediate availability of NetFlow Analyzer analyzer /ana·ly·zer/ (an´ah-li?zer) 1. a Nicol prism attached to a polarizing apparatus which extinguishes the ray of light polarized by the polarizer. 2. 5.5 EA (Early Access), with support for Cisco NBAR NBAR Network-Based Application Recognition (Cisco) NBAR National Bureau of Asian Research NBAR Nonbinding Allocation of Responsibility NBAR Non Binding Preliminary Allocation of Responsibility (Network Based Application Recognition). Cisco NBAR performs deep packet inspection Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as video, audio, chat, voice over IP (VoIP), e-mail and Web. to provide intelligent identification and classification of application traffic in real time. This allows system administrators to use the classification reports and set QoS standards. The new release also supports advanced application categorization based on IP address, apart from the port and protocol from the NetFlow data. Additional enhanced features of NetFlow Analyzer 5.5 EA include: --Automatic scheduling and emailing of reports --Grouping multiple sub-interfaces into a single logical entity to monitor traffic --Support for NetFlow version 9 --Support for ToS and TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. Flag NetFlow Analyzer is a web-based bandwidth monitoring tool that collects Cisco NetFlow and Cisco NBAR data exported from routing devices, to analyze network traffic and report on bandwidth usage across the network. With instant real-time bandwidth usage reports on top applications, conversations, and hosts using bandwidth, NetFlow Analyzer gives valuable insight into bandwidth usage in the enterprise without the complexity and expense involved in deploying hardware and software probes. "By providing a real time usage statistics, NetFlow has empowered us to understand corporate in-house application network requirement and bandwidth usage. That has helped us in capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. and imposing required measurements. Application wise, it is very user friendly and away from routine network heavy terminology. My primary objective behind NetFlow Analyzer was to bring visibility of network usage and based on that perform capacity planning for future application requirement, which I can confirm happily is fully achieved," said Milan Modi ME, Area communication engineer at BAH-AO, Kingdom of Bahrain. "With enterprises more dependent on complex networked applications than ever, in-depth and accurate analysis of network traffic is crucial for optimal performance of applications. We are glad to utilize Cisco NetFlow and Cisco NBAR technologies to bring layer 2 to layer 7 visibility," said Raghunandhan Ramanujam, Product Manager of NetFlow Analyzer at AdventNet, Inc. For details on NetFlow Analyzer refer: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/netflow/ NetFlow Analyzer 5.5 Early Access is available for a free 30 day trial from: http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/netflow/ea/download.html About AdventNet Enabling Management Your Way(TM) Founded in 1996, AdventNet is a software company with a broad portfolio of elegantly designed, affordable products and web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . AdventNet offerings span a spectrum of vertical areas, including network & systems management (ManageEngine.com), security (SecureCentral.com), collaboration, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. & office productivity applications (Zoho.com), database search and migration (SQLOne.com), and test automation tools (QEngine.com). AdventNet has a large and rapidly growing global customer base, and has presence in all the major markets. The company is based in Pleasanton, California Pleasanton, nicknamed "P-town"<ref name="">Ptown (Pleasanton) Bike Advocates Meeting, East Bay Bicycle Coalition website, August 14, 2007, retrieved August 17, 2007, is a city in Alameda County, California and was incorporated in 1894. with offices worldwide. Visit us at www.adventnet.com NetFlow & NBAR are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc. |
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