Network & Application Performance Monitoring

The Network Can't Afford to Fail

Are 'smart' devices making the network act dull?

What impact are mobile devices having on security?

Are online courses meeting student expectations?

Online learning, multimedia course content, and the sheer number of devices attaching to campus networks all keep growing. With the complexity of applications and security risks also on the rise, detecting and preventing potential performance issues in higher education networks is more critical -- and more challenging - than ever before.

Ixia's Anue Net Tool Optimizer® (NTO) suite of network monitoring switches delivers the actionable insight needed to ensure a high-quality student and faculty experience both on campus and online. NTO equips engineers to dynamically detect, avoid and address issues impacting network and application performance, while helping to ensure security, compliance, efficient management, and scalability.

Leveraging breakthrough innovation, NTO provides the ongoing visibility engineers at higher education facilities need to optimize:

• Multimedia and teleconferencing session quality
• Online application performance
• Aggregated Higher Speed Ethernet (HSE) 20G / 40G WAN link performance
• Resistance to hacker attempts
• Security of file-sharing programs
• Packet-capture for federal CALEA compliance
• Mobile client interoperability and WLAN capacity

NTO Solution Highlights

Ideal for higher education environments where many thousands of devices may locally attach to the network, the best-of-breed Net Tool Optimizer™ 5200 Series of network monitoring switches delivers increased visibility into traffic and improves the utilization of security and performance analysis tools. NTO aggregates, filters and de-duplicates data from multiple SPAN and TAP ports to provide each tool with exactly the data it requires.

Net Tool Optimizer features:

• Expanded network monitoring capacity with simultaneous monitoring of multiple connection points from a single port;
• Maximum tool utilization extending 1G monitoring tools to 10G and 40G networks to defer costly upgrades;
• Automated troubleshooting that reduces mean time to repair (MTTR);
• Industry-first "drag and drop" interface that speeds and simplifies configuration and management;
• Industry first 40G capabilities;
• Faster response and remediation of security issues with unique ability to receive data from SIEM and NMS for modifying monitoring policies on-the-fly.

Ixia's Net Tool Optimizer solutions vastly improve the economics of scaling monitoring tools to optimize security and performance across complex higher education network infrastructures. Learn more about our network visibility solutions or contact us for information on how NTO can help in maintaining security and simplicity while delivering a superior user experience.

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Ixia's products include:

5293 Anue Net Tool Optimizer - Carrier grade, NEBS-compliant 40GE network monitoring switch featuring high density availability. Up to 16 40GE ports or 64 10GE ports. 5288 Anue Net Tool Optimizer - High-density solution for large, complex data centers providing up to 64 10G ports and scaling to monitor 1G, 10G, and 40G links. 5273 Anue Net Tool Optimizer - Carrier class, NEBS-compliant solution for high-availability service provider networks. 5236 Anue Net Tool Optimizer - Enterprise class, high-performance solution delivering 10G visibility for network monitoring tools in all parts of a fiber network. Up to 24 SFP/SFP+ Ethernet ports. 5204 Anue Net Tool Optimizer - Cost-effective, entry-level solution for smaller enterprises: ideal for copper networks, network access layers, providing large numbers of 1G monitoring tools with access to network traffic.

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