To ensure that a business’s mission-critical network applications run smoothly at all times without interference, network managers must have a clear view of all application traffic running on the Internet, the Wide Area Network (WAN) and the data centre.
Network traffic management solutions grant enterprise network managers a clear and precise depiction of how their bandwidth is being utilised in real-time and over time.
Using network management tools within this solutions, network managers are able to optimise network performance by controlling bandwidth for critical application traffic, limiting the capacity of ‘nice-to-have’ applications and even removing non-business applications completely if required.
Layer-7 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology is key allowing network managers to look deep into each and every packet identifying and prioritising applications according to pre-defined policies.
It is vital to collate long-term reporting on the use of the Internet and WAN applications for capacity planning and trend analysis.