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Network troubleshooting in 2008

Communications News, Jan, 2008

Network Instruments has pulled its crystal ball out of mothballs and offers its view on trends that will impact enterprise networks in 2008.

Retrospective network analysis (RNA). RNA solutions, TiVo-like devices that store and play back network traffic to immediately troubleshoot the source of a problem, rather than spending hours recreating the problem, will go mainstream in 2008.

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Steady adoption of 10-Gigabit Ethernet and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). The MPLS market is driven predominantly by carriers pushing clients to MPLS from legacy technologies like Frame Relay. MPLS advantages of quicker response times and more efficient bandwidth allocation when coupled with decentralized applications like VoIP are also fueling adoption.

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Collaborate and listen. Having Web-based applications, instant messaging and voice over IP integrated enhances business processes, but it can overwhelm networks when application performance is not closely monitored.

Virtualization. As organizations harness the benefits of virtual consolidation, they will also tackle new problems of monitoring and troubleshooting these far more abstract networks.

Track everything. Whether for compliance enforcement, e-discovery or network troubleshooting, more organizations are implementing tools that record and store every packet traversing the network.

High-level reporting integrates with in-depth packet analysis. Organizations increasingly want to seamlessly drill-down to perform root-cause analysis. High-level reporting offers quick problem detection, and in-depth packet analysis identifies the cause.

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Network troubleshooting in 2008

Communications News, Jan, 2008

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