A Comprehensive Network Engineering, Operations, and Planning Suite

Network engineers manage complex and constantly changing networks. These networks carry business-critical services and applications, and are required to deliver high-performance while maintaining no downtime. OPNET provides a complementary set of solutions to meet network management challenges faced by IT organizations. NetOne’s comprehensive solution suite:

• Supports full life-cycle coverage, including real-time monitoring and visualization, network configuration assurance, predictive planning, network design and optimization.
• Leverages OPNET’s best-in-class analytics applied to an accurate, up-to-date view of the network.
• Unifies network management to eliminate the challenge of correlating across point tools.
• Seamlessly integrates with OPNET’s Application Performance Management suite to bring application and service awareness into network management.

 

 

Benefits

• Rapidly troubleshoot critical application and network issues using real-time infrastructure visualization and monitoring.
• Maintain up-to-date network inventory and diagrams.
• Increase security and operational integrity with scheduled audits to pinpoint problems.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards, organizational policies, and best practices.
• Reduce the risk of downtime due to network failures and mis-configurations by performing survivability analysis and proactive change impact analysis.
• Accelerate new service and technology deployments using predictive planning.
• Optimize network performance by performing capacity planning, network dimensioning, traffic engineering, and what-if analyses.

 

 

Capabilities

 

 

Automated Network Discovery

• Discover devices and their configuration throughout the IT infrastructure. Continuous discovery captures all network changes.
• Capture comprehensive network data including configuration, topology, performance metrics, traffic flows, and events, via CLI and SNMP.
• Create high definition network model by correlating configuration and operational data to highlight multi-device relationships (e.g., HSRP, OSPF areas).

Real-Time Visualization and Monitoring

 

 

• Visualize real-time network topology, traffic, status, and events in a unified view.
• Consolidate data from multiple sources, including SNMP, syslog, and third-party management systems.
• Monitor key performance indicators within configurable dashboards.
• Alert on critical network events through e-mails, pager notification, and trouble ticket integration.
• Troubleshoot poor performance and network outages.

Auditing, Compliance, and Security

 

 

• Comply with security and regulatory standards (including PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, and FISMA), organizational policies, and best practices.
• Detect changes in network topology, configuration, and performance and assess the resulting impact.
• Audit the production network configuration on a regular basis to detect configuration errors, non-compliance, and security gaps.

Network Documentation

 

 

• Diagram the physical and logical network based on a detailed, comprehensive, and up-to-date network model.
• Document network inventory and configuration (e.g., device, OS, key protocols).
• Troubleshoot using detailed physical and logical diagrams. Diagrams leverage operational data (e.g., Spanning Tree) to highlight protocol configuration errors.
• Report on network changes. Highlight new and modified devices to identify possible root cause of performance problems.
  

Network Planning and Design

 

 

• Plan capacity expansion based on growth trends and deployment of new services and technologies.
• Verify proposed designs by predicting impact on performance, utilization, and survivability.
• Optimize performance and the use of existing network resources through traffic engineering and QoS policies.
• Improve reliability and minimize the impact of failures.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex routing behavior using the high definition Flow Analysis™ simulation engine to model a broad set of layer-2/3 protocols.

For Service Providers

 

NetOne provides the following additional capabilities for service providers and large enterprises.

• Automatically produce detailed logical and virtualization views for technologies and configurations common in service provider networks, including IS-IS, MPLS, BGP, HSRP/VRRP, and VPNs/VRFs.
• Perform automated off-line MPLS traffic engineering, leveraging exclusive OPNET algorithms that optimize resource utilization and ensure service survivability.
• Optimize BGP peering relationships and determine the impact of core failures, peering failures, and peering changes on inter-AS traffic.
• Conduct multi-layer survivability analysis by predicting the impact of failing nodes, links, and shared risk groups in the supporting transport network on the higher layer network and services.
• Perform multi-layer planning, analysis, and design for IP/MPLS over transport networks.
• Design resilient, cost-effective SONET/SDH, OTN, and DWDM transport networks.
• Ensure successful migration to IPv6 by performing an automated IPv6 readiness assessment and generating a migration plan.

Carriers, ISPs, cable operators, and wireless service providers achieve significant return on investment by using NetOne to:

• Accelerate new strategic offerings.
• Optimize the use of existing network resources.
• Ensure service levels.
• Improve subscriber satisfaction.
• Manage operational risks associated with network convergence and technology migration.

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