Application Visibility

Enable full visibility over applications, network usage and performance.

With Ipanema’s ANS™, you can:

Discover and classify applications with up to Level 7 traffic inspection

Ipanema’s ANS discovers how the network is used by applications. Flows are automatically classified through Layer 7 traffic inspection. Both business and non-business applications are recognized. All information can be displayed with multiple levels of granularity, from the entire network down to local subnets and individual servers.

Automatically discover applications using Layer 3 to 7 Classification

Manage Application SLAs

Ipanema’s ANS provides two high-level application quality indicators: MOS and AQS. MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is computed using ITU’s E-Model and applies to voice flows, while AQS (Application Quality Score®) follows an Ipanema proprietary model that applies to all data applications. These indicators directly assess application performance and provide at-a-glance reports of application quality for the whole network in real time.

These KPIs allows enterprises to drive their performance from Application SLAs over the global WAN. The KPIs are available in multiple high-level formats including an iPhone/iPad application.

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Measure applications usage and performance in real time

The KPIs are based on the measurement of multiple flow-quality metrics. These include traditional TCP RTT (Round Trip Time), TCP SRT (Server Response Time) and TCP retransmits. In addition, Ipanema’s ANS can provide advanced metrics for TCP-based applications for a breakdown of network and server contributions to transaction response times within TCP flows. These advanced transaction metrics are perfect to remotely monitor the service delivered by public cloud providers.

Also available are unique “one-way” metrics (including transit delay, loss and jitter) that provide the highest precision information available about the performance of any protocol, including UDP flows used in VoIP, video and telepresence. These one-way metrics are unique in their ability to represent the actual network performance delivered to end users and to precisely show the network versus the IT contribution to application performance.

High level application quality scores based on accurate flow metrics

Report on usage and performance throughout the enterprise’s organization

Reporting with Ipanema’s ANS offers numerous templates that apply to a variety of application and topology criteria. Templates include detailed technical reports for network managers as well as summary reports to communicate usage and performance across the organization for up to C-level managers. Reports also include powerful metrics describing the impact of QoS & Control and WAN Optimization on users’ Quality of Experience (QoE). Reports are updated in real time with clickable views and hyperlinks to support drilldown into data details. They include the flexibility to go back in time using intuitive slider controls.

Report templates cover:

  • Usage and performance reports for network and site managers
  • High-level reports for CXOs
  • SLM and SLA reports
  • Technical reports
     

Combine proactive and reactive helpdesk support via top-level views, alarming and drilldown

Ipanema’s ANS leverages its unique ability to capture a global real-time view of networked application performance:

  • Top-level views provide a compact, real-time representation of application performance. They include color coding to represent the quality of flows according to AQS and MOS metrics.
  • Alarms can be set on any local or global performance event: for example, a dedicated alarm can be triggered when the MOS of a VoIP call drops below a threshold at the company headquarters.
  • Once a problem has been identified through an alarm or an amber/red indicator, it is possible to progressively drilldown to an “oscilloscope view” of a given flow for a graphic representation of all technical metrics in real time.

Performance bird’s eye views (Maps), alarming and drill down

Rightsizing to optimize the cost versus performance trade off

ANS rightsizing computes the relationship between bandwidth and achievable Application SLAs, using measurements of network capacity, user activity and Application Performance Objectives. Leveraging the system’s QoS & Control and WAN Optimization capabilities, ANS rightsizing provides all the necessary information for an IT manager to decide and justify  network sizing policy, including:

  • Usage-based sizing: This is the traditional way to size networks. The performance is good for all applications, including recreational applications. Bandwidth demand is uncontrolled, so over-provisioning is high.
  • Rightsizing: The performance is excellent for all critical business applications, and occasional degradation is accepted for non-critical applications. Over-provisioning is eliminated, since bandwidth is sized based on business needs. (Facebook and YouTube no longer lead the demand for network resources.) .
  • Under-sizing: The performance is acceptable only for critical business applications with brownouts acceptable for non-critical applications. Bandwidth costs are reduced to the minimum.
     

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