Abstract

Telecommunications service providers face extreme pressure to preserve high network performance while trying to satisfy their users’ demands for increased network bandwidth. Spikes in network traffic consumption, often associated with social media, video and other multimedia traffic, can present a formidable challenge to service providers. Specialized applications such as high-frequency trading also have strict requirements to measure network performance. To meet these challenges, network teams require sophisticated and expensive network analysis gear coupled with a solution that optimizes the use of these network tools.

Ixia Network Visibility Solutions commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance and features of the Ixia Anue Net Tool Optimizer® (NTO) 5288/5293, which aggregates data from multiple visibility points and ensures the delivery of mission critical network traffic to essential monitoring and security tools, giving network operations teams complete visibility into their networks. The Anue NTO delivers line-rate throughput across the range of topologies and scenarios tested.