Net Optics appTap Offers Real-Time Network Visibility Issue Diagnosis And Resolution

An integrated and application monitoring tool for tapping networks at remote sites, appTap has been launched by Net Optics. Equipped with a built-in Tap, appTap proves to be a simple, plug-and-play solution that eliminates the need for costly onsite engineering support. Businesses can make use of this feature to not only reduce complexity and increase automation but also save thousands of dollars per year.

Remote branch sites with up to 100Mb internet connections are constrained by limited IT resources and smaller budgets and are always looking out for an easy to use and affordable solution to gain visibility into network and application performance. By detecting and resolving problems in real-time, appTap allows businesses to drive business continuity, competitiveness as well as revenue. By performing services such as network traffic analysis, application activity and VoIP call monitoring, the product can help pinpoint performance issues leading to low-quality VoIP such as jitter, underperforming applications as well as insufficient network bandwidth.

In a release, Sharon Besser, vice president of technology for Net Optics (News - Alert), said, “Small satellite offices and remote branch sites face the same network and application management challenges of large data centers, but have few or no engineers on staff and smaller IT budgets. Even one instance of business downtime can result in a loss of thousands of dollars and long-term damage to the business image. appTap prevents these losses by enabling total visibility into both network traffic and application performance, helping to quickly isolate problems before they interrupt the business and affect revenues.”

Using appTap’s broad access and monitoring capabilities, businesses can preserve historical network performance data for early detection of behavior changes. Locally deployed Web-based applications can be automatically detected along with their utilization statistics of network resources. Using the solution, businesses can monitor network use to determine capacity needs so as to future-proof the network. Also, Intrusion (News - Alert) Detection Systems and other solutions can easily be implemented using its monitoring ports.

Based on individual business needs, end users can choose their level of monitoring visibility such as network, application and session monitoring. While Network Monitoring captures network data and generates NetFlow records, Application Monitoring also includes flow monitoring at various levels. Superseding both network and application monitoring, session monitoring allows troubleshooting VoIP calls.