Network Management Solutions

Enterprise Network & Service Management Solutions are used by network managers to gauge and assess the impact of new applications and services on the network—ensuring acceptable levels of performance and reliability for all business functions.

Reduce Network Management Costs —With new applications, network convergence, and increased security requirements, enterprise networks are more complex than ever. Network management solutions from Nortel Networks include automated discovery, simplified processes for configuring and deploying QoS and security policies, and visualization tools that help to reduce the complexity and control the costs of managing and maintaining a secure, high performance enterprise network.

Improve Troubleshooting —The enterprise relies on its network. Network downtime results in missed commitments and lost opportunities. With fault correlation, visualization, and closed-loop policy analysis capabilities, network and service management solutions from Nortel Networks give network managers the tools they need to quickly resolve and correct network or service problems.

Ensure Network Performance —As enterprises consolidate servers and optimize their use of new applications and services there is increased demand placed on the network. Management solutions from Nortel Networks include:

• Real-time performance analysis and visualization tools
• Policy provisioning and closed-loop analysis tools

Nortel Networks Portfolio

The Nortel Networks Optivity family of products is a suite of software applications used for managing data and telephony networks designed to ensure network resiliency and reduced total cost of ownership for enterprise customers.

• Optivity NMS provides a fast and efficient way to manage and troubleshoot networks built with Nortel Networks products. This powerful application provides a comprehensive set of discovery, fault, and diagnostic capabilities for identifying problems before they impact network services.
• Optivity Policy Services is a system-level software application designed to manage the traffic prioritization and network access security parameters for business applications in the enterprise-networking environment. It enables network managers to take a proactive approach to bandwidth management, security, and prioritization of business-critical traffic flows across the enterprise.
• Optivity Switch Manger is a Java-based real time network management application that enables network managers to discover, view, and configure more than 300 network devices and their physical links on a topology. Network managers can import, export, or modify individual port settings, default gateways, SNMP traps, VLAN configurations, and product or image files.
• Optivity Telephony Manager is an advanced management application that provides an integrated suite of management tools for configuration, control, and analysis of Nortel Networks Meridian 1 and Succession Communications Server for Enterprise (CSE) 1000 systems. These tools are accessed through a Windows graphical user interface (GUI) or Web browser interface.
• Optivity NetID is a scalable, fault-tolerant software application that provides Internet Protocol (IP) addressing to devices in an Enterprise network. It also provides Domain Name Service (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) management.

Network Associates Portfolio

Sniffer Technologies provides a full range of portable and permanent network monitoring and analysis products that offer robust plug and play network troubleshooting capabilities for maximizing network performance and avoiding downtime.

• Netasyst Network Analyzer LAN offerings keep your 10/100 Ethernet network running at peak performance levels. The analyzer captures frames, simultaneously building a database of network objects from observed traffic to detect network anomalies. Netasyst leverages Sniffer Technologies’ Expert Analysis system to provide enhanced management automation, more comprehensive problem-solving information, and greater network visibility.
• Sniffer^® Basic Analyzer is the software-based fault and performance management tool for the Internet Age. It captures data, monitors network traffic, and collects key network statistics, giving network managers the vital information they need to effectively troubleshoot, manage, and migrate today's complex network environments.
• Sniffer^® Portable can help close the knowledge gap, by providing your network engineers with portable network analysis solutions for quick identification and resolution of network performance issues. These solutions help IT professionals resolve the toughest problems across all Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) topologies, from 10/100 Ethernet to the latest high-speed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Gigabit backbones
• Sniffer^® Investigator is an affordable, turnkey 10/100 Ethernet network management solution. It addresses the unique troubleshooting needs of small and medium-sized enterprises by combining six essential network management functions in a single, easy-to-manage appliance.
• Sniffer^® Reporter is an affordable, turnkey 10/100 Ethernet network management solution. It addresses the unique troubleshooting needs of small and medium-sized enterprises by combining six essential network management functions in a single, easy-to-manage appliance.
• Sniffer^® Voice is a separate application that installs on top of Sniffer^® Portable 4.5+ or Sniffer^® Distributed 4.1+, allowing you to now troubleshoot, monitor, and perform expert analysis on emerging Voice-over-Networks (VoNs). Sniffer^® Voice enhances the quality of converged networks at every level and optimizes the management of voice, video, and data over a single network.

Intellinger UPM

• Intellinger Unified Performance Monitoring (UPM) allows any size enterprise to collect performance data from all layers of their system environment. UPM users also enjoy improved system performance and availability by receiving pro-active alerts to potential bottlenecks and critical errors in their environment via email, pager, and SMS.