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Sniffer Technologies—Guide to Communication Protocols
Sniffer Technologies
Guide to Communication Protocols
The Sniffer Enterprise Management Architecture provides
unsurpassed network visibility.
Managing today’s complex and widespread enterprise network has never
been more challenging. As an IT professional, how can you ensure that your
network and the applications it supports delivers the availability, security,
and reliability that your business requires to succeed in this highly
competitive world—24x7?
Sniffer
®
Distributed™helps you meet these formidable challenges by
providing a fault and network performance management solution that you
can deploy across your entire enterprise. It delivers unparalleled network
monitoring, protocol decodes, and Expert analysis capabilities to all key
segments, e.g., Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN),
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and Gigabit Ethernet throughout the
network.
This powerful combination of standards-based monitoring and Expert analysis
makes Sniffer Distributed the ideal tool to proactively manage today’s
multitopology, multiprotocol distributed networks. With Sniffer Distributed
you can monitor, validate, and evaluate your entire network infrastructure
operations—from troubleshooting and baselining—to real-time and historical
analysis. Armed with these insights, you can identify and correct network
performance problems and bottlenecks—before they impact your users.
Sniffer Distributed also gives you centralized, secure, and easy access.
With its Windows
®
or browser-based UI (Sniffer WebConsole currently for
Gigabit and Ethernet only), you can access Sniffer Distributed Appliances
anytime—from anywhere.
World-Class Training, Consulting, and Support
Sniffer®University™is a comprehensive educational resource for building
and enhancing all network professionals’ skills in fault and performance
management. Sniffer University has trained over 70,000 network
professionals worldwide. The Sniffer Certified Professional Program
provides network professionals industry-recognized accreditation as
experts in their field.
Sniffer Professional Services can assist you during all network growth
stages—from planning, design, and implementation, through ongoing
management. Our consultants provide expert resources and an
independent perspective to meet your specific needs.
Network Associates
®
PrimeSupport®Services offers essential product
knowledge and rapid, reliable technical solutions. Over 80% of our
technical staff holds industry certifications and/or technical degrees and
over five years of experience in the IT industry. You can engage this high
level of expertise through our extensive support portfolio, which consists
of PrimeSupport KnowledgeCenter Service Portal, Connect, Priority, and
Enterprise. PrimeSupport is your key to maximizing processing uptime,
revenue generation, and customer satisfaction.
Better performance for your
network, and your bottom line.
Sniffer
®
Technologies realizes
that your network has become
central to your business.
A network slow-down or
outage can easily translate
into hundreds of thousands
of dollars in lost revenue
and productivity. To ensure
around-the-clock availability for
customers and partners, you
need proven solutions that
detect and resolve bottlenecks
before they become problems.
Sniffer maintains peak perform-
ance across all LAN and WAN
topologies, from 10/100
Ethernet to the latest Wireless
LAN and VoIP Network
Protocols—across the
enterprise and the Internet.
Built to analyze the entire
network, Sniffer software
proactively monitors and
troubleshoots all network
layers from the physical to
the applications layer—all
in real-time.
Get the most from your network and more from your bottom line. Contact your local
Sniffer Technologies representative today. Or visit www.sniffer.com to learn more.
Network Associates, Sniffer, and PrimeSupport are registered trademarks and Sniffer Distributed and Sniffer University are trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or
other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. © 2002 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
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