The use of packet data and synthetic test technologies, or in some cases both, for monitoring at the client edge is a leap in visibility over what was available even just a few short years ago. Until recently, visibility was expensive, impractical, and silo-based in nature, making investments and usefulness unattractive. However, technology innovations and advancements have resulted in ideal alternatives to gain visibility at the client edge.
Packet-based monitoring leverages visibility into actual user traffic traversing the enterprise environments, seen as wire-data on north-south physical Ethernet segments, as well as across virtualized environments over east-west traffic paths. Monitoring actual user packets in a passive, non-intrusive manner provides consistent, real-time visibility that is essential to gain precise metrics on the actual activity of users as they interact with application services in their data centers, co-los, public cloud, and SaaS providers.
NETSCOUT solutions utilize packet data to enable rapid IT troubleshooting, predictive analysis, network topology and health diagnostics reporting.