NetScout Systems has expanded its line of nGenius Flow Recorder products with new workgroup and enterprise models. The new configurations deliver a new set of powerful performance troubleshooting features, including improved expert analysis and ease-of-use functionality, at a lower cost, says the company. The announcement is part of the company's drive to broaden enterprise adoption of advanced 'trace analysis' capabilities.

Extended packet trace recording has become a well-established method for network specialists to perform deep, forensic troubleshooting and analysis of subtle or intermittent problems, such as off-hours application slowdowns affecting international operations or traffic spikes from unrecognised rogue applications. However, until now, troubleshooters either had to use traditional, portable packet analysers and hope that they could catch the problem in action, or they had to resort to expensive packet recording devices.

With the addition of the new configurations and price points, the nGenius Flow Recorder family addresses these challenges by delivering the benefits of advanced packet trace recording and post-event analysis to a broader network operations audience. Starting at less than $5000 per-port, the Workgroup nGenius Flow Recorders rival price points of traditional packet analysers that lack extended recording capabilities.

NetScout is expanding the nGenius Flow Recorder family's features with a new set of expert views and functionality, including an 'expert zoom' to provide immediate access to the most relevant data for a specified time period, 'expert data mining' to more quickly and expertly search for network or application patterns and events during a selected time period, 'open data export' to provide network troubleshooting specialists with the flexibility to tackle their most troublesome application performance issues in their preferred manner; and more advanced packet decodes, now including HTTPS.

For deployment flexibility, nGenius Flow Recorders are available in 4- and 8-port configurations and can be used in a variety of LAN and WAN network topologies, either via direct attachment or via nGenius Probes. nGenius Flow Recorders are based on a multi-CPU, security-hardened Linux appliance that ensures high performance for both capture rate and simultaneous on-board analysis and Web-enabled presentation.

'With the newly broadened expert features, improved usability and cost-effective deployment options, NetScout is leading the charge to bring the benefits of extended trace recording and analysis to more network operations groups,' said Michael Szabados, senior vice president of product operations for NetScout Systems. 'As part of our High Definition Performance Management strategy, the nGenius Flow Recorder represents a key element in our comprehensive solution for rapidly resolving network and application performance problems.'

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