Is It Feasible to Dedicate a Resource to Each Appliance?
Have you considered how you will support this product in the future? What happens
when there are changes in the network and your appliance needs to be configured
differently? How much effort is required to backup the configuration of each appliance
you are managing? Do you have to login individually to each appliance to change
its configuration, or even just to check its status? How will you roll out a mass
code upgrade to these appliances? What effort will be required to swap out one of
the appliances should that be necessary? In the final analysis, while these appliances
may solve a pain you have today, will managing these appliances in the future cause
you pain you do not have today?
Can You Effectively Manage Without Visibility into All the Applications?
Unfortunately, the applications that are critical to business do not always get
the priority they deserve on the WAN. For instance, the quality of a voice call,
which only requires a little bandwidth, is compromised if a large file is downloaded
through the same network in the middle of the call. The voice traffic, to most of
the network infrastructure, appears just like any other traffic, and is handled
with the same priority as any other network traffic. The reality is that all network
traffic is not equally important to the business, and the characteristic needs of
each traffic type varies. However, in a WAN environment where all traffic appears
the same, all traffic is treated the same, and business critical applications will
suffer in these bandwidth constricted environments. Expand’s industry leading Quality
of Service engine, providing Layer 7 visibility and control, has put unprecedented
control back into the hands of the user. Identify exactly the traffic types that
are important and quickly and efficiently build company-wide network priority policies,
all from one easy to use interface.
ExpandView
ExpandView is Expand's central management platform, enabling cost effective and
low effort management of the Expand solution. When it comes to deployment, ExpandView
can automatically discover new Accelerators and load them with the appropriate configuration.
As it sets up Accelerators, it will automatically create a network map, allowing
quick views of the network status, performance, and alerts. From ExpandView, easily
upgrade any Accelerators in the network, as well as keep an inventory of model,
code version, and status of all the Accelerators. From one station, control all
of the components in the Expand solution. This allows low effort management of the
entire Expand solution with less resource, and that is value and efficiency that
contribute to the bottom line.
Monitoring: Application and Network Reporting
Expand's solution will report on the performance of the applications running your
business. It will also automatically report on the applications that are impacting
the performance of your business - the unknown and often unmonitored applications.
Use of the Accelerator's professional graphs will allow you to visually appreciate
what is happening in the network, and easily print them off or save them as a PDF.
See throughput, acceleration, and performance of the links in the network and the
applications running on them, or use the Accelerator to send NetFlow to a collector.
Whether troubleshooting a new issue, or accounting for the performance of the network,
Expand solutions provide the visibility to stay informed.