Abstract

IT teams are increasingly asked to deliver more robust, dynamic, and higher performing networks on flat or shrinking IT budgets. They often deploy a large, heterogeneous mix of monitoring tools to help them ensure their networks are running smoothly including IDS/IPS, sniffers, packet analyzers and data recorders. These tools can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet are often poorly utilized; each tool requiring a dedicated stream of traffic to monitor the network effectively. Even if an engineer does gain approval to purchase one of these tools, the number of switched port analyzer (SPAN) ports available for connecting the tool are often very limited and already overcommitted.

Anue’s Net Tool Optimizer family directly addresses these problems by introducing a cost-effective, strategic solution to increase network tool utilization dramatically with minimal cost. Such tools can decrease IT costs, help reduce network outages, boost network performance, and increase the overall productivity of the IT team.