Track Applications for Each Traffic Class
Monitors and measures up to eight different traffic classes and tracks utilization for each application in each class
Monitor Bandwidth Utilization
Service provider designates an amount of bandwidth or a threshold for each CoS setting
Quickly Identify Incorrect Settings
With CoS, you can select which priority each application receives
NetScout 01614 Select Class of Service License
As enterprises start to optimize their private IP/MPLS-based IP VPNs, the Class of Service (CoS) feature becomes beneficial; by allowing you to set priorities and validate individual applications used on the network. For example, you can give the most business impacting or latency-sensitive applications higher priority utilizing a high priority CoS. However, you must monitor CoS usage to ensure you are not exceeding thresholds on your network and that you have the correct CoS setting on port hopping applications.
The Class of Service™ software module provides the critical visibility you need to manage and optimize CoS settings for private IP environments. Working in conjunction with other software modules, Select Class of Service helps you manage and fine tune application performance as well as validate SLAs for each traffic class.
Track Applications for Each Traffic Class
Select Class of Service monitors and measures up to eight different traffic classes and tracks utilization for each application in each class. Now you can see how much bandwidth applications such as voice, video, Web, FTP and streaming are using for each class of service assigned. You also can determine which priority new applications should receive, as well as monitor their effect on existing applications.
Monitor Bandwidth Utilization
With private IP services, the service provider designates an amount of bandwidth or a threshold for each CoS setting. If the network becomes congested, or if utilization of any CoS goes above its threshold, prioritized traffic may be "policed" to best effort. This means mission critical, or time sensitive traffic, may drop to the lowest prioritization or be discarded. Select Class of Service lets you see the traffic in each traffic class, and track utilization of all classes above and below threshold levels. Such timely data helps you fine tune your CoS settings to assure the most important traffic gets the highest priority. You also can minimize the risk of exceeding thresholds.
Quickly Identify Incorrect Settings
With CoS, you can select which priority each application receives. Based on this priority, the router tags the IP header with the appropriate setting. If the tag is set incorrectly, the network will not recognize the class and will forward the traffic at the lowest priority. Select Class of Service highlights these incorrectly configured settings or applications not prioritized by displaying an "unknown" category. This capability helps you quickly locate the improper setting and improve application performance.
Manage SLAs for Every CoS Setting
Different applications have different characteristics and needs based on the enterprise. For example, VoIP is extremely sensitive to delay and jitter while email is not as time sensitive. Most enterprises would give VoIP a higher priority than e-mail. Since each class has a different priority, the service level metrics should also change based on the class setting. Utilizing the proactive, customizable thresholds will allow for proactive monitoring prior to your service desk receiving a call. The SLAs include Round Trip Delay, Availability, and Packet Delivery Ratio (based on actual traffic) per Class of Service configured.
The Details
Class of Service (SKU 01614) is typically sold as part of the standard, network bundle of a number of software bundles with every Analysis Service Element (ASE), OmniPoint installation, and Select Software module. Adding additional software modules allows for deeper integration with TruView and Visual Performance Manager and your service desk.
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Advanced MPLS Package (SKU 01654) |
Advance MPLS with Application Integrity (SKU 01849) |
Advanced MPLS with VoIP Integrity (SKU 01923) |
OmniPoint Element (SKU 02224) |
OmniPoint Element & VoIP (SKU 02226) |
| Service Summary included |
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| Network Troubleshooting (SKU 01611) |
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| Back in Time (SKU 01612) |
✓ |
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| Class of Service (SKU 01614) |
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| AppFlows (SKU 01837) |
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| AppSummary* (SKU 01838) |
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| Traffic Capture (optional) (SKU 01613) |
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| VoIP** (SKU 01920) |
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*AppsIntegrity is the combination of AppFlows and AppSummary. AppSummary requires AppFlows.
**VoIP software module with OmniPoint only available on Analysis Service Elements
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TruView and Visual Performance Manager are flexible solutions that can scale to help the largest enterprises, carriers and managed service providers decrease the cost of performance management, increase revenue, and optimize utilization of existing assets. This is accomplished by enabling IT organizations to become a source of competitive advantage, not a cost center, by providing actionable visibility into a centralized integration point for managing applications, VoIP network and server performance across a complete network.
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