Network Associates has announced Sniffer Pro Packet over SONET, the next generation of the market-leading Sniffer network and application troubleshooting and analysis solution that now ensures the maximum availability and performance of carrier-grade SONET network backbones. Sniffer Pro Packet over SONET is the industry`s first and only integrated hardware and software network analyser that delivers end-to-end visibility into all layers of network and application traffic, giving network engineers the most detailed views into the performance of high speed Internet backbones to help ensure maximum availability.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), which provide the Internet infrastructure to enable e-business, currently have no easy-to-use solution to troubleshoot and analyse high speed Packet over SONET network backbones.
The Sniffer Pro product helps network engineers quickly pinpoint the cause of complex internetworking problems that can have potentially crippling business impacts. With network downtime costing thousands of dollars per minute for most large companies and service providers, the Sniffer Pro software can help network engineers reduce network downtime by detecting potential network and application problems before they affect end-users.
"Sniffer technology gives ISPs and CLECs a solid, carrier-class network troubleshooting platform that can readily handle the capacity of high-speed SONET networks," said Network Associates SE manager Nazeem Kassiem. "Service providers now have access to the most advanced network analysis and troubleshooting tool that has more than a decade of proven value among the thousands of companies that use Sniffer software to help ensure the availability of e-business networks and applications."
The Sniffer Pro Packet over SONET product is designed to make SONET network analysis and troubleshooting fast and simple by giving ISPs and CLECs immediate access to Sniffer Technologies` award-winning Expert Analysis for real-time troubleshooting decodes. The Sniffer Pro operates with SnifferBook Ultra, Sniffer Technologies` high-speed capture hardware.
SnifferBook Ultra can operate in High Speed Capture Mode offering the industry`s largest capture buffer (up to 256 MB per channel) for the most complete and accurate post-capture analysis of Packet over SONET network traffic. Alternatively SnifferBook Ultra can operate in streaming mode offering real-time analysis for long sequences of uninterrupted traffic analysis. This capability is further enhanced by hardware filtering and triggering mechanisms supported by custom pattern comparator logic capable of wire-speed pattern matching.
"Sniffer technology gives ISPs and CLECs a solid, carrier-class network troubleshooting platform that can readily handle the capacity of high-speed SONET networks. Service providers now have access to the most advanced network analysis and troubleshooting tool that has more than a decade of proven value among the thousands of companies that use Sniffer software to help ensure the availability of e-business networks and applications," adds Kassiem.
Sniffer Pro Packet over SONET with SnifferBook Ultra supports standards-based packet technologies to help network engineers pinpoint problems on SONET backbones. Its dual-speed physical-interface modules support troubleshooting and analysis of OC-3c and OC-12c links and are available in both single mode and multi-mode fiber. SnifferBook Ultra is available as a portable unit for field service engineers to deliver on-site network analysis and troubleshooting of LAN and WAN segments.
With more than 13 years of market leadership, thousands of Sniffer units are deployed at companies worldwide, including at more than 85 percent of Fortune 1000 companies. Sniffer software is the industry`s most complete network analysis solution, enabling network engineers to monitor, troubleshoot and conduct capacity planning for LAN, WAN, high-speed network backbones and e-business applications with a single integrated tool.
Sniffer Pro allows on-demand and proactive analysis of network traffic in real-time, providing Expert analysis on data to help network managers identify and resolve hundreds of network problems such as hardware conflicts, slow WAN application response times and database transaction failures.
The Sniffer Pro solution addresses the analysis and troubleshooting requirements for network managers and quality assurance professionals by offering full duplex and full bandwidth capture, the industry`s most comprehensive set of protocol decodes and Sniffer Expert analysis to ensure maximum availability and performance of mixed device, multi-protocol networks. Other features of Sniffer Pro include:
Full line-rate analysis in full duplex for major protocols or capture and filter at full line rate in full duplex capture mode for Packet over SONET and ATM (OC-3 and OC-12) and Gigabit Ethernet. Sniffer Pro supports more than 435 protocols, the largest number of any analyzer in the industry and provides Sniffer Expert analysis for rapid problem resolution across the most network topologies, protocols and applications.
Provide network analysis in virtually any network environment -- Sniffer operates with the industry`s broadest array of network switches, routers and hubs.
Analyse node-to-node conversation pairs, LAN statistics, including protocol distribution, network utilization, average frame size, frames transmitted, bytes transmitted, frame errors, runts, frames per protocol, bytes per protocol, etc.
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