Concord Combines Live and Historical Management With Network Health - LiveTrend.MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- New value-add application extends Network Health to the NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, Concord Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CCRD CCRD Colorado Civil Rights Division CCRD Clear Certainty Rundown CCRD Center for Community Research and Development CCRD Climate Change Research Division (US DoE) CCRD Certified Chiropractic Rehabilitation Doctor ), the leader in Web-based network performance reporting and analysis solutions, today announced Network Health - LiveTrend, integrating live and historical reporting in one application. LiveTrend reports make it easy to check on known trouble spots throughout the day by collecting, analyzing and presenting updates on critical devices and metrics in five-minute increments. The LiveTrend reports appear as "windows" on the network operator's desktop and in response to a drilldown request for more detailed information on the performance of a particular network device. "LiveTrend eliminates the need for two point products by allowing users to easily navigate from historical to real-time analysis, " stated Joe Askins, director of data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. at Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. . "I'm able to make well-informed business decisions using the most accurate data available." LiveTrend broadens Network Health's mandate to provide reports for multiple levels of the IT organization. IT managers rely on the existing Network Health reports to identify dangerous trends and take action before performance and critical business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets are affected. LiveTrend allows the analyst in the Network Operating Center (NOC) of the organization to immediately check and validate the effect of these changes. For example, the network operator can instantly determine if his recent router reconfigurations had the desired effect on the router's performance and if the network is running more smoothly as a result. Designed specifically to meet the need for time-sensitive information now, LiveTrend runs on the desktop and automatically updates with each five-minute poll of the Network Health application. Operators can run drilldown reports on potential problem areas across the network whether it is a router, switch, server or ATM link. "As the leading provider of network reporting and analysis solutions for both enterprise and telecommunications companies, we are continuing to broaden Network Health's capabilities to cover more of the network in more detail than any other solution," said Kevin Conklin, vice president of marketing for Concord. Service provider customers can use LiveTrend to monitor service on a minute-by-minute basis and check if the provider is delivering the service levels for which the customer originally contracted. If service is slow for example, ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. customers can Web into LiveTrend reports to determine if the network is the cause without having to contact the service provider. The provider, in turn, minimizes the number of calls to support personnel and can deliver more proactive service. Network Health provides the largest source of historical performance data available. With the addition of LiveTrend, this performance information is now immediately available through Network Health's existing certified devices library. Concord's certified devices library features more than 200 devices from the major networking vendors and is designed to support the broadest number of devices and technologies in the networking environment today. Pricing and Availability LiveTrend will be available in April through the Concord Communications worldwide sales force, including agents and VARs. LiveTrend is priced at $6,000 U.S. list. It is available on both UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT platforms. About Network Health The Network Health family of analysis and reporting solutions includes LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network , Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , Router/Switch, Server, Traffic Accountant and Service Level Reports modules. This award-winning family of solutions shares the same underlying database and acclaimed presentation formats to provide a consistent and fully correlated "total view" of the entire IT infrastructure. The combined suite of Network Health products offers a complete solution, or an incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. migration path for performance analysis and streamlined reporting of an organization's entire client/server infrastructure -- from servers to the backbone through and through; thoroughly; entirely. - Lord Lytton. See also: Backbone and wide-area connections. About Concord Communications Concord Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCRD), is the leading developer of Web-based network reporting and analysis solutions that provide customers with the information they need to measure the effectiveness of their IT investment. The premier service providers, ISPs and Fortune 1000 companies turn to Concord each morning to assess the health of their corporate networks. Concord is headquartered in Marlboro, Massachusetts. For more information about Concord, call 1-800-851-8725 or visit www.concord.com. The Total View is a trademark, and Concord, the Concord logo and Network Health are registered trademarks of Concord Communications, Inc. All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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