NetQoS Integrates its SuperAgent Technology with Cisco NAM

NetQoS Inc. has announced it integrated its SuperAgent application response time monitoring technology with the Cisco (News - Alert) Network Analysis Module (NAM). This integration is expected to help customers manage application performance on a complex distributed network.

The integration brings together the SuperAgent offerings ability to baseline and also analyzes application performance in an organization using Cisco's NAM high-resolution troubleshooting and embedded data collection capabilities.

“We have successfully tested the Cisco NAM/NetQoS (News - Alert) SuperAgent integration and the value is evident to us in terms of performance monitoring, troubleshooting and cost savings,” said Paul Hoyle from the WAN Management Team of The California Department of Transportation.

“We will be able to combine the data from our multiple NAMs with our other SuperAgent collection sources and view it all in the NetQoS management console, which will help us better understand how applications are performing across our organization and quickly drill down to any NAM for efficient troubleshooting. Plus we get the benefit of monitoring more applications without having to deploy additional SuperAgent hardware."

The Cisco NAM optimizes the delivery of applications and services by providing increased visibility into network and application performance. The SuperAgent offering uses this instrumentation for delivering better performance, volume and availability metrics across all NAMs.

Also, SuperAgent can detect the causes of problems in tandem with NAM diagnostics and can launch a trace route investigation for a network performance violation. Data center NAMs can also become NetQoS data collectors enabling customers to save cost related to the deployment of more SuperAgent collectors.

Matt Sherrod, vice president of product management at NetQoS noted that this integration with Cisco NAM was an important development for organizations which need enterprise-wide reporting and analysis across their NAM infrastructure.

This integration makes available NetQoS performance data collection across the Cisco infrastructure, including Cisco WAAS and ACE.