GigaStor's retrospective network analysis (RNA) capabilities give you the benefit of perfect hindsight for attacking every network problem and anomaly. With continually captured data, GigaStor makes it easy to rewind your network, determine the problem source, perform comprehensive analysis and move on.

By removing the guesswork and the need to start a packet capture, RNA greatly speeds network troubleshooting and provides long-term corporate-wide benefits.

With retrospective network analysis:

• Quickly isolate and resolve network and application issues


• Ensure successful application deployments


• Reconstruct and troubleshoot VoIP calls


• Investigate and document compliance violations

Drill Down on Problems

In an enterprise, minutes of downtime can quickly multiply into hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds lost. With terabytes of stored data, it's critical to be able to sift through the data and pinpoint the problematic transactions.

Use GigaStor's unique time-based navigation and comprehensive expert analysis to quickly drill down from high-level issues to perform root-cause analysis. From an enterprise-wide view, you can track bandwidth utilisation, network Top Talkers, application metrics, NetFlow data, and even VoIP quality statistics. Then use expert analysis to isolate the problem cause and find potential resolutions.

Ensure Successful Application Deployments

NETFLOW AND APPLICATION ANALYSIS In large-scale deployments of new applications like unified communications, IT staff shouldn't neglect performing predeployment assessments or baseline analysis. Use GigaStor’s trending reports to define normal network and application behavior and establish baselines. Configure alarms to alert IT staff when performance deviates from the norm.

When you're alerted to an application problem, investigate deeper with GigaStor's in-depth application analysis and experts.

With GigaStor:

• Isolate transaction issues


• Identify latency concerns


• Track server delay


• Monitor application-specific errors

Troubleshoot 10 Gb Networks

We take unparalleled efforts to ensure your ability to capture and process network data on gigabit or 10 Gb networks. We design and manufacture our Gen2 capture card to be the fastest available, supporting full-duplex gigabit and 10 Gb. In order to minimize network overhead, data processing and analysis occurs at the GigaStor probe rather than by pulling captures over the network for processing at the console.

• NETFLOW STATISTICS VIEWOptimized for 10 Gb Analysis


• 16-lane PCI Express card


• Filtering and statistics performed on the Gen 2 card


• Data and analysis processed on the GigaStor probe

Investigate Security and Compliance Issues

GigaStor plays a critical role in data mining, network investigations, and data-retention compliance. The GigaStor network recorder provides you with a separately stored, unaltered view of network traffic that you can play back to investigate connections and transactions exactly as they happened.

GigaStor not only shows you communications that occurred, but it can reconstruct the mined data–providing hard evidence such as web pages (including images),VoIP conversations, documents, and e-mails.

 

Extending the Power of NetFlow

Using NetFlow in New Environments
Use GigaStor to produce NetFlow from any device in any network environment, including servers and non-NetFlow capable routers and switches. GigaStor captures and converts packets into NetFlow data flows, pushing them to reporting applications.

Moving beyond NetFlow Statistics
NetFlow cannot solve network or application problems. When metrics indicate a problem, use GigaStor to conduct detailed back-in-time investigations. By capturing and saving every packet, GigaStor provides a detailed packet-level view of the problem occurrence. Replaying network activity eliminates problem recreation and provides efficient resolution.