Netcordia Doubles Built-In "Expert Rules" With New NetMRI 2.0.

Gives Network Managers Early-Stage Warnings on Routing Instability and Problems With Time Sensitive Applications

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Netcordia, a leading provider of network management solutions, today announced NetMRI 2.0, which more than doubles its built-in "expert rules" to assess, audit, and proactively detect over 150 configuration and QoS issues in the network. This provides more in-depth expert analysis, mapped against industry best practices, which maximizes network reliability and response time. NetMRI 2.0 now offers Routing Neighbor Analysis in the core system, and a new optional software module for detecting QoS performance.

NetMRI's new Routing Neighbor analysis rules helps identify changes in routing topology, indicating potential problems with stability, and failure of redundancy. More complete than simple link monitoring, the Routing Neighbor Analysis catches multiple early-stage weaknesses, including those in the protocols, interfaces, configurations and carrier services.

The new QoS Module detects queue performance data, which is a key benefit for determining problems for applications based on QoS setup. These include prioritized application traffic such as VoIP, Video, Web, and ERP systems. NetMRI operates with the leading routing and switch vendor's equipment, and verifies and identifies inconsistent QoS configurations, monitors and pinpoints queue drops, and operates as an early indicator of problems.

"We built the specifications for NetMRI 2.0 and the software module based on customer feedback," said Terry Slattery, founder and CTO of Netcordia. "Senior level network engineers are responsible for QoS of all critical applications running through their networks. So, we developed NetMRI 2.0 to provide a single solution that understands their networks as systems, and adds early-stage awareness to their existing post-failure alerting products."

The core system now offers automatic database backup, and the ability to use TACACS+ and RADIUS as the authentication mechanism to access NetMRI. NetMRI 2.0 also analyzes environmental issues like temperature, power, and voltage. It automatically ensures that network devices are updated to handle the new daylight savings time transition in March of this year, so scheduled tasks, events, and system logging run smoothly.

Able to run within 30 minutes, NetMRI enables organizations to maximize network engineering effectiveness and drastically reduce overall network management time and maintenance. This results in a network that is compliant, secure and cost effectively meets business requirements with the least amount of effort. NetMRI is available in a broad range of sizes, serving networks with fewer than 50 routers, switches and firewalls to those with 20,000 or more.

About Netcordia

Netcordia develops NetMRI, a network analysis and reporting solution. NetMRI is the most comprehensive automated network diagnostic tool for enterprise, service providers and government networks. This "automated best practices in a box" allows a network engineer to easily and quickly identify issues with respect to VoIP, wireless, VPN, VLAN, and IP within the network. Netcordia has been recognized as one of the top companies to watch in network management by Network Computing and one of the Fierce15 top emerging companies in IP Telephony by FierceVoIP. (www.netcordia.com)

NetMRI and Netcordia are trademarks of Netcordia, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.