Monitoring IP Multicast Applications
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Performance Challenges in an IP Multicast Environment
As organizations look for cost-effective, bandwidth-conserving technologies for media-rich and simultaneous-user applications, IP Multicast has gained serious attention. However, managing such an environment can be difficult because there are not many tools or methodologies for monitoring and reporting on the multicast domain. As a result, network engineers often devote a great deal of time trying to ascertain the location and nature of a problem, rather than focus on solving the problem itself. In addition, the bursty nature of IP Multicast traffic complicates capacity planning for traffic engineers. As IP Multicast applications continue to become more prevalent in the business environment, organizations need the capability to manage these applications in concert with the rest of their business-critical infrastructure.
NetScout Solution Meets the Need to Manage the Performance of IP Multicast Applications
The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution incorporates real-time and historical reporting of all networked applications, including those delivered via IP Multicast, eliminating the need for separate products to manage each individual application. It monitors and reports on IP Multicast and TIBCO IP Multicast applications exactly as any other networked application, such as HTTP or SAP. Displaying IP Multicast side-by-side with unicast-based applications as they compete for resources provides total visibility and context into the global networking environment, with the ability to determine how they are impacting one another. Therefore, IT professionals gain the knowledge and insight they need to ensure service levels, detect and quickly troubleshoot degradations, support intelligent capacity planning and report performance results to the enterprise.
- Helps to quickly isolate and solve problems by providing context to performance issues, revealing IP Multicast applications side-by-side the other business applications that use the same network resources
- Optimizes the day-to-day delivery of key IP Multicast applications through proactive management of application and bandwidth growth
- Enables business-relevant decision making and reporting – identifies individual IP Multicast groups and TIBCO protocols as unique applications, providing data such as volume, utilization, publisher-to-group conversation statistics, and the capability to perform packet decodes of multicast protocols (e.g., IGMP, PIM, RTP)
- Displays details down to sub-second granularity in order to troubleshoot microburst incidents
- Provides the unique capability to troubleshoot and to isolate network vs. client issues by joining an IP Multicast session
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| The NetScout Solution identifies IP Multicast groups as unique business applications, including those that use TIBCO for reliable delivery. Here we see “Reuters Data” and “Live Training” both IP Multicast-based applications. |
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Enabling Products
To find out more information about NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer® products click on the appropriate links below:
- nGenius K2 Service Delivery Manager - Assures the availability and performance of business services with at-a-glance status and early warning of performance degradations of service traffic
- nGenius Performance Manager - Comprehensive software for network and application performance, service validation and optimization and planning across the modern IP network
- Sniffer Intelligence - Focused application and voice performance analysis for the modern IP network
- nGenius InfiniStream Deep Packet Capture Appliances - Dedicated intelligent deep packet capture appliances to support service assurance and unparalleled application and network performance analysis
- nGenius Probes - Security-hardened distributed monitoring devices that collect key network metrics utilized by the nGenius Performance Management System
- nGenius Virtual Agent - Software-based intelligent data source for virtual computing environments that delivers critical visibility to traffic inside virtualized servers
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