Riverbed SteelCentral NetExpress
All-in-one network performance monitoring

Overview:

Business Challenge

If you work on a network operations team, you know how increasingly hard it is to understand and ensure application performance for your end users. You need visibility into areas where issues may occur – application, network, and infrastructure – in order to identify and diagnose problems quickly and minimize downtime. But it hasn’t been easy to gain this level of visibility across the WAN or hybrid networkwithout deploying additional probes, packetcapture devices, or remote site technicians. Too often, existing solutions are too complex or difficult to use and for many IT teams – you simply do not have the time or the resources to devote to a timeconsuming, bottoms-up, and traditional troubleshooting approach.

The Riverbed Solution

Riverbed SteelCentral NetExpress combines the best of flow and packet capture, plus analysis into a single, easy-to-deploy solution. It is best suited for the small to mid-size enterprise (SME), a branch office location, or a subsection of a larger network. With application awareness and packet capture capabilities integrated into a single solution, SteelCentral NetExpress gives you the intelligence and network visibility you need to quickly view network and application performance and troubleshoot issues before your users even notice.

SteelCentral NetExpress delivers an enterprise-wide view of application utilization plus packet capture and quality of service (QoS) intelligence so you can see what is really running across the WAN and in your branch locations. With full visibility into your network and proactive, real-time performance metrics per application, location, and user, you can identify the source of any problem and drill-down from layer 7 application information all the way to low-level addresses and ports with just a few clicks.

You can also use your Riverbed SteelHead to send flow data to SteelCentral NetExpress for deeper application-aware network performance management, and easy monitoring and troubleshooting across the WAN-optimized network with no additional probes required.

Steelcentral Netexpress Virtual Edition

If your organization has embraced virtualization and is beginning to adopt cloud and softwaredefined data center (SDDC) technology, you know how hard it can be to maintain visibility in these hybrid environments, let alone try to install monitoring appliances.

Riverbed SteelCentral NetExpress Virtual Edition runs on VMware vSphere to provide added deployment flexibility, gain expanded visibility, and move your monitoring where it’s needed, whether it’s between data centers or in the cloud. Its virtualized form factor allows it to be deployed:

• By companies that have fully embraced virtualization
• Within SDDCs, whether or not they are using SDN overlay networks
• By SMEs as a virtual alternative to the SteelCentral NetExpress hardware solutions

Key Benefits

• Increase application visibility and improve performance across the network and in the cloud
• Gain cost-effective, enterprise-class network performance monitoring in an easy-to-deploy solution
• Automatically detect, isolate, and pinpoint changes in performance
• Speed problem identification and resolution with fast retrieval and analysis of flow and packet data
• Use existing network devices to gain insight into traffic and bandwidth usage