Application visibility

Ipanema's Autonomic Networking enables full visibility over applications, network usage and performance.

With the Ipanema System, you can:


Discover and classify applications with up to Level 7 traffic inspection

Ipanema discovers how the network is used by applications. Flows are automatically classified through layer 7 traffic inspection. Both business and non-business applications are recognized. All information can be displayed with multiple levels of granularity, from the entire network down to local subnets and individual servers.

Automatically discover applications using Layer 3 to 7 Classification


Manage application SLAs

Ipanema provides two high-level application quality indicators: MOS and AQS. MOS (Mean Opinion Score) is computed using ITU’s E-Model and applies to voice flows, while AQS (Application Quality Score) follows an Ipanema proprietary model that applies to all data applications. These indicators directly assess application performance and provide at-a-glance reports of application quality for the whole network in real time.

These KPIs allows enterprises to drive their performance from application SLAs over the global WAN.

KPIs allows enterprises to drive their performance from application SLAs over the global WAN


Measure applications usage and performance in real-time

Ipanema also measures application quality metrics such as TCP RTT (Round Trip Time), TCP SRT (Server Response Time) and TCP retransmits. It also computes unique “one-way” metrics (including transit delay, loss and jitter) that provide the highest precision information available about the performance of any protocol, including UDP flows used in VoIP, video and tele-presence. These one-way metrics are unique in their ability to represent the actual network performance delivered to end-users and to precisely show the network versus the IT contribution to application performance.

High level application quality scores based on accurate flow metrics


Report on usage and performance throughout the enterprise’s organization

Ipanema reporting includes numerous templates that apply to a variety of application and topology criteria. Templates include detailed technical reports for network managers as well as summary reports to communicate usage and performance across the organization for up to C-level managers. Reports also include powerful metrics describing the impact of control and WAN optimization on users’ quality of experience. Reports are updated in real time with click-able views and hyperlinks to support drill-down into data details. They include the flexibility to go back in time using intuitive slider controls.

  • Usage and performance reports for network and site managers
  • High level reports for CXOs
  • SLM and SLA reports
  • Technical reports


Combine proactive and reactive help-desk support via top-level views, alarming and drill-down

The Ipanema System leverages its unique ability to capture a global real-time view of networked application performance:

  • Top-level views provide a compact, real-time representation of application performance. Each square in a view represents a collection of application flows or sites, with the size of a square being proportional to the quantity of data and color coding to represent the quality of flows according to AQS and MOS metrics.
  • Alarms can be set on any local or global performance event: for example, a dedicated alarm can be triggered when the MOS of a VoIP call is going below a threshold at the company headquarters.
  • Once a problem has been identified through an alarm or an amber/red indicator, it is possible to progressively drill-down to an “oscilloscope view” of a given flow for a graphic representation of all technical metrics in real-time.

Performance bird’s eye views (Maps), alarming and drill down


Rightsizing: optimizing the cost versus performance trade off

The Ipanema System’s rightsizing computes the relationship between bandwidth and achievable application SLAs, using measurement of network capacity, users activity and application performance objectives. Leveraging the system’s QoS & Contol and WAN Optimization capabilities, Ipanema’s rightsizing provides all the necessary information for an IT manager to decide and justify about the network sizing policy:

  • Usage-based sizing: this is the traditional way to size networks. The performance is good for all applications, including recreational ones. The bandwidth demand being uncontrolled, over-provisioning is high.
  • Rightsizing: the performance is excellent for all business applications, and occasional degradation is accepted for non critical ones. Over-provisioning is eliminated, and bandwidth is sized based on business needs: Facebook and Daily motion do not lead the demand anymore.
  • Under-sizing: the performance is acceptable only for critical applications with important brownouts for others. Inflation is small, costs are reduced to the very minimal.

Under-sizing
 

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