Netcordia Announces Network Analysis Solution with Enhanced Features for Federal Agencies.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Powerful Network Management Tool Can Be Used by Government Employees without Expensive Training or Complex Integration Projects

Netcordia, a provider of network analysis products, today announced new features for its NetMRI network analysis appliance designed to meet the unique needs of federal agencies. Based on suggestions from government customers, the data collection techniques have been given exclusionary parameters so sensitive hosts and subnets are restricted from analysis, and more invasive discovery techniques can be optionally throttled back. NetMRI now also offers translation of the user interface to foreign languages to accommodate allied users.

NetMRI is currently used globally in many tactical deployments; it is used in Iraq in support of the U.S. armed forces, in the U.S. Naval Academy, and in several large U.S. bases. Federal government and defense agencies have adopted NetMRI because it is a powerful network management tool that can be used by government employees without expensive training or complex integration projects. Since government customers don't always

have the time or resources for high-level network management, NetMRI is an easy to use plug and play solution that installs in under 30 minutes, allowing easy management for tactical networks.

"NetMRI has been shown to provide a very effective way for federal and government agencies to analyze and proactively manage their complex networks," said Terry Slattery, CEO of Netcordia. "It's like having an expert constantly working 24 hours a day, performing detailed collection and painstaking correlation analysis. Additionally, since we make the changes to the product rather than having the end customer writing custom scripts and tweaking lots of parameters, our product is consistent across deployments, something our government clients value highly as they often redeploy personnel."

Like an MRI, this diagnostic tool scans the network, and identifies issues that can be problematic to a federal network, including memory leaks, root bridge identification, configuration changes, and security checks. NetMRI identifies the routers and switches, and begins collecting data from them. At the end of each day, the collected data is analyzed using Expert Rules developed by Netcordia. NetMRI summarizes the analysis results into an easy-to-understand Network Scorecard(TM) that gives the network manager a view of the health of the major network systems, plus a list of network issues to investigate and correct. NetMRI makes it easier for staff to quickly manage a network and report the problems up and down the chain of command.

Compared with the large established industry management frameworks, it is a fraction of the price. The NetMRI line has four models which can support networks up to 2,000 routers and switches or as many as 60,000 interfaces. All four models provide the same professional collection, analysis and reporting capabilities; they differ only in the size of the network supported.