Take a "60 Second Product Tour"
Do you spend too much time tracking down application performance problems and defending the network against "the network is slow" complaints? Are you tired of not being able to see what's going on with your network? Tired of fighting fires with a budget that's barely sufficient for a bucket of water, let alone high-priced management tools? What if there were a tool that could give you the upper hand over your top 10 application performance problems, with a simple interface that gave you the answers you need with just a few mouse clicks? What if you could do that within 10 days of installation? And what if the solution started at less than $10,000?
10 Problems, 10 Days, Under $10K
NetSensory Professional
Defend Yourself against "The Network Is Slow" Complaints
Network Physics NetSensory Professional helps you eliminate application response time problems and ensure the performance, security, and availability of your application delivery infrastructure without the management burden of SNMP, RMON2, agents, or synthetic transactions. It operates across the most complex networks-any combination of LAN, WAN, VPN, MPLS, Internet, and third-party-to deliver detailed real-time and historical information about performance, utilization, and end-user experience through a set of best practice action guides that deliver the answers you need in just a few clicks of the mouse.
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Manage Across Complex Networks
The NetSensory Professional OSlets you organize network data into Business Groups (sets of IP addresses) and Applications (combinations of ports, IP addresses, and/or URLs). The NetSensory Professional OS then uses these Groups and Applications to automatically aggregate and display that data in the context of major business entities and the links and traffic between them, including branch offices, departments, buildings, users, server clusters, business applications, and end-to-end business services. The business impact of any problem is immediately apparent, so you can rapidly prioritize your troubleshooting efforts.
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All Your Traffic, All the Time, Real Time
NetSensory Professional monitors actual network flows — all your traffic, all the time. It records and stores over 50 network metrics: response time (based on the industry's first real-time turn-tracking for persistent connections), utilization, and congestion measurements, from TCP/IP header information. This rich and unified data view enables you to immediately discern the source of a problem as server, application, or network. No more fingerpointing; no more "the network is slow" even when it isn't!
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NetSensory Insights: Questions. Answers. Now.
The unique NetSensory Insights interface enables you to use the rich data collected to solve network problems as fast as you can move your mouse. Insights package the appropriate parts of the extensive set of NetSensory tools — charts, tables, topology maps, and the like — into step-by-step action guides that encapsulate the best practices for common network tasks. Insights free high-level engineers for critical initiatives and vastly improve the productivity of everyone on the IT team. And Network Physics' growing network of reseller partners can deliver customized Insights in as little as a day to make your day-to-day work even easier and keep you on top of application performance issues!
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Scales as Your Needs Grow
The NetSensory Professional OS allows you to easily upgrade via license key to the full functionality of the NetSensory Enterprise, for even more insight into your application infrastructure, as well as distributed operation with the addition of more Network Physics appliances.
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NetSensory Insights™
The fastest way to find and fix application performance problems
NetSensory Insights are point-and-click action guides that encapsulate best practices for the tasks involved in assuring the integrity, performance, and security of your application infrastructure.
Audit — Assess your application infrastructure. What's really on your network? Who's talking to whom? Understand the structure of your network and prepare for network transitions.
Baseline — Spot trends and establish what's normal and what's not: latency, load, response time, chattiness, and more. Get a handle on what to expect from branch offices, data centers, server clusters, partners, customers, and other business resources.
Troubleshoot — Isolate application response time issues: where's the problem, what applications are affected, which users, what's the business impact? Drill down to the problem source: server, network, or application.
Secure — Find the stuff that's not supposed to be there: worms, spambots, malware, anomalous file transfers, etc. Track down rogue traffic and bandwidth hogs, reclaim bandwidth capacity.
Optimize — Manage network transitions before and after: WAN & server optimization, application acceleration, server consolidation, firewall upgrade. Measure the improvement and prove that it was worth it.
Benefits
Find and fix application response time problems
- Defend against "the network is slow" claims end to end across WAN, LAN, Internet, BGP,VPN, partner & customer networks, etc.
- Immediately identify which applications are affected, which users, and the business impact
- Easy drill-down to problem source: server, application, network, branch office, etc.
- Breaks down end-to-end response time to server, connection, network, retransmission, and round trip time components
- Industry's first real-time turn-tracking for accurate minute-by-minute metrics on enterprise applications using persistent connections.
- Accurate "barometer" of application performance for early detection of problems
Define applications by port, server, and/or URL to handle ephemeral ports (e.g., Exchange) and web-enabled apps
- Track and compare application usage and performance trends over time
Planning & SLA Analysis
- Easily discover and visualize application service flows between business groups
- Stores and intelligently condenses metrics via year-long-plus storage algorithms
Easy to install, easy to use, immediate results
- No agents, no SNMP, no synthetic transactions, no network impact
- Unique NetSensory Insights encapsulate best-practice step-by-step workflows for all management tasks
- Troubleshoot and solve complex problems as fast as you can move your mouse
- Customized Insights available from your Network Physics reseller.
NetSensory Professional is available on both the NP-2000 and NP-3000 appliances.
| Packets/second |
Approx. bandwidth* |
Approx. data storage** |
| NP-2000 120,000 pps |
750 Mbps |
1-minute averages for 3-7 days;
1-day averages for up to a year |
| NP-3000 150,000 pps |
900 Mbps |
1-minute averages for 1-2 weeks;
1-day averages for up to a year |
* Estimate, depends on average packet size
** Estimated, depends on configuration
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