Brix Releases Service Assurance Solution for Enterprise Networks

Enterprise Networks & Servers,  Jan 2004  

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Brix Networks has announced BrixMon, the company's new performance management and service assurance software offering specifically designed for large enterprise networks.

BrixMon provides network administrators with proactive, end-to-end verification of their IP-based networks and applications, including VoIP, video, VPN access, and Web services.

BrixMon affords remote visibility into service performance across the enterprise LAN and WAN, including branch offices, through the management of a network of software-based Brix Verifier Agents or optional hardware Brix Verifiers. A secure, central-site software system, BrixMon provides automatic test threshold auditing, compliance analysis, real-time and historical reporting capabilities, storage for performance data, and Application Programming Interfaces for integration with various third-party management tools.

The system supports the enterprise-standard Windows 2000 operating system, and embeds Oracle's database management system for transparent installation and management.

BrixMon also sports a Web-based provisioning, monitoring, and reporting user interface that provides a reporting interface designed to troubleshoot network operational issues, monitor network and application performance in real time, and mine historical performance data for trends. Users can choose from among a suite of pre-configured Quick Reports or create Custom Reports, while Executive Reports provide bottom linefocused performance summaries.

BrixMon software supports a complete set of modular, extensible, plug-in test suites for measuring today's IP-based services, plus network connectivity and traffic monitoring. In addition to active tests that simulate enduser transactions, BrixMon also supports tests that passively monitor actual user-generated traffic. all tests can be customized to meet the precise testing requirements of an organization, and are automatically downloaded to the testing endpoints deployed throughout the enterprise.

The optional BrixMon Advanced VoIP Test Suites enable network managers to perform pre-deployment testing, ongoing performance monitoring, and troubleshooting of VoIP networks and applications. The targeted Advanced VoIP Test Suites provide performance and quality tests for Session Initiation Protocol, H.323, or Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol networks. Detailed test results pinpoint key VoIP quality factors, including call setup, media transmission performance, and voice quality.

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