netscout ngeniusone overview
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| Bob Cronin | 26 November 2014 | Confidential | © 2013 NetScout Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.1
NetScout SystemsnGeniusONE
Unified Performance Monitoring
Bob Cronin
EMEA Engineering26 November 2014
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NetScout Products In A Data Centre
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nGenius 1500 & 3900 Packet Flow Switches
• Modular, highly scalable switch optimizedfor 10 GbE
• Up to 480 ports of 1/10 GbE + 24 ports of 40 GbE
• 100 GbE ready
• Over 8 Tbps switching fabric
• Ultra-low latency port-to-port and across switch fabric
• Advanced layer 2/3/4 traffic filtering and conditioning on every port with wire speed performance
• All features standard – no licensing or special modules for advanced features/services
• Redundant, non-stop operation for mission-critical environments
• Unified management and provisioning simplifies large-scale deployments
Data Center-Class Switching Platform Architected
for High-Performance, Low-Latency Networks
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nGenius InfiniStream Appliances
• Continuous packet capture, analysis
and storage
• Advanced packet-flow performance
statistics on all monitored protocols
• Advanced data mining through
sophisticated indexing and filtering
algorithms
• Hardened, redundant systems support
• Variety of storage and performance
configurations to scale to any
environment
Flexible and reliable Intelligent Deep Packet Capture and Analysis
appliances supporting service assurance and network forensics
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Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI)
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nGenius InfiniStream Deployment Strategies
Core Dist.Access Remote OfficesDist.
WAN
7900
4500
1900
2900
4500
6900
2900
• APM & Server farms• Service aggregation points
• Primary traffic paths• High-volume branch offices
4500 Series-Best suited for:
• Access layers• Space-constrained links
• Lower storage needs• Small branch locations
2900 Series-Best suited for:
7900 Series-Best suited for:
• Datacenter core• High capacity links
• High storage needs• Modularity
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Introducing nGeniusONE
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nGeniusONE Unified Performance
Management Platform
• Service-oriented, top-down perspectiveof application and network performance
• Proactive real-time monitoring of service health, quality, availability and the resulting user experience
• Packet-flow based architecture enables unified monitoring across physical, virtual, and cloud applications
• Decisive, easy-to-use contextual workflows enable high level to low level analysis across multiple IT users
• Massive scalability to support large, high-volume, distributed environments
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Integrated Analysis Architecture Streamlines
Performance Management Activities
Performance Analysis – multi-dimensional
analysis of application and network
performance correlated with all
interdependencies
Service Dashboard – real-time service
health and holistic status of all business
services with intelligent early warning for
proactive problem identification and triage
Deep-Dive Packet Analysis –
expert packet-level analysis and
decode for historical forensics
and reconstruction
Session Analysis – granular user
session tracing and analysis with
hop-by-hop transaction and latency
Multiple analysis tools consolidated into
a single plane of glass, with contextual
views supporting all performance
management activities
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nGeniusONE Enables Service-Oriented,
Enterprise-Wide Visibility
Services Traverse a Highly Complex Delivery Environment
User Communities
Server Groups
Voice/
Video
Industry-SpecificServices
Cloud /
CRM
Any Service End-to-EndInside the data center, and across the enterprise
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nGeniusONE Provides a Unique Service
View for Network and Application Teams
• Unified business perspective of complex service delivery environments
• Monitoring and recognition of ANY application - data, voice and video
• Service-oriented view reveals interactions between application, server and network
• Visualize transactions across tiers, server farms and distributed data centers
• Triage between network, application and server and between distributed applications
Service consumption in delivery context with all dependencies
Visualize service performance after it leaves the server
Macro view of a service, not an application component
Solves Problems Server-Focused APM Products Can’t…
Measures community user experience – region, group, location
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nGeniusONE Simplifies and Streamlines
Managing Service Delivery
Abstracts Applications into Simple Business
Services Resulting in:
Single-pane of glass with
correlated multi-hop,
network/ application
performance analysis
Multi-dimensional
analysis views speed
incident analysis
• Faster identification of emerging problems
• Faster isolation of likely problem domain
• Faster diagnosis and troubleshooting of incidents
• Faster resolution of incidents and service restoration
Advanced analytics
automates analysis and
detects anomalies to
quickly identify and
triage problems
Quickly isolates
problem to offending
infrastructure component
Supports both reactive
and proactive models
Supports both real-time
and historical analysis
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Simple Workflows Enable Rapid
Triage and Problem Resolution
Service Dashboard
Alerts Indicates a Critical
Service Issue
Launch Application Service
Monitors to verify and
correlate service Impact
Cause: Database server
is unable to respond....
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Service Dependency
• Simple Configuration
• Dynamic and service configuration view
• Identify
Server Application Failures
Server Loading
Server Latency
• Launch in Service Monitors
• Filtering
• Ability to print
Automatically Discover Server Farm Architectures
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The Value of nGeniusONE for
Unified Service Delivery Management
• Enables a more efficient and automated service management strategy
• Addresses ITs biggest pain points – service availability, quality and performance and managing the User Experience
• Encompasses key IT operational requirements and meets multiple IT organizational needs
• Minimizes degradation and downtimeof critical business applications
• Delivers rich data that supports IT operations and decision making
• Consolidates multiple tools, improves collaboration, and simplifies IT Service management
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nGeniusONE
Unified Communications
Server
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nGeniusONE Unified Communications Server
• Real-time voice and video quality measurements with per-session QoE and signaling metrics representative of user experience
• Real-time dashboards with user-based service-level alerting
• Powerful troubleshooting and automated diagnostics with seamless drill-down to individual user sessions
• Flexible business-relevant service-level reporting
Proactive Service Management for Voice, Video, and Telepresence Unified Communications environments
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App l i ca t i on -Focused UC Ana l ys i s
Critical Unified Communications
Performance Measurements
Vi d e o P e r f o r m a n c e
• Impact of IP impairments calibratedto endpoint characteristics
• Video application analysis
• Video compression artefacts
• Frame-rate and bit-rate
• Mid-call coding changes
• Impact of IP impairments calibrated to end point characteristics
• Listening quality
• Conversation quality
A u d i o P e r f o r m a n c e
• Video codec performance and errors• Video payload awareness (frame & service type)• Application behavior (bandwidth throttling)
• Signal/Noise Ratio • Speech level• Speech distortion
• Acoustic echo• Delay• Noise
Quickly isolate service impact beyond network
performance
Understand application-level behavior and impact
on user experience
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Video Quality Assessments
• Detects change in
video application
behavior
• Assesses audio and
video together for video
conferences
• Detects video frames
affected (I/P/B)
• Identifies changes in
resolution during
sessions
Begin @ full 1080
resolution at 4Mbit/s
Mid-point @ 720
resolution and 1Mbit/sPayload Inspection
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Summary