Enterprise Network Managers

From precise latency measurement to intuitive network analysis, Endace is helping elite corporations maximize network performance while consolidating monitoring infrastructure.

Is your Enterprise IT department under siege? Network operators are continually balancing the need to monitor and secure their communications infrastructure with the top floor edict to always do more for less. Has the cost of monitoring your network started to exceed the cost of implementing it? Is your monitoring infrastructure an assembly of proprietary solutions that consume their own power, too much space and your limited resource?

Endace has worked with many Fortune 1000 customers to solve these problems. As networks continue to go faster, existing implementations have continued to feel the strain. Solutions that worked well below 500 Mb/s, sucked wind at a Gig and flat out failed beyond that. This failure will often manifest itself as dropped packets, a symptom that is untenable when detecting intrusion or attack, and a cause for perpetual degradation as retransmissions further load the very infrastructure already under stress.

At Endace, we believe that you cannot improve what you cannot measure. And for measurement to be valuable it must be performed passively, with no impact on the network itself. Endace’s NinjaProbe appliance is the industry’s leading passive multi-function probe and sensor. Deployed on any network interface – circuit, packet or SONET – Ninjaprobe captures traffic at speeds up to 10Gb/s. Each and every packet captured also receives a hardware time-stamp, synchronized to universal time with nano second granularity.

Acting as a traffic “capture once, use often” probe, NinjaProbe replaces a rack of existing application-specific probes by driving multiple monitoring applications from a single appliance. NinjaProbe simultaneously filters, duplicates, stores, forwards and replays captured traffic to a range of off the shelf, Endace supplied, open source, or home grown applications. Functioning as the only piece of required hardware in a common monitoring infrastructure, NinjaProbe can be permanently deployed from edge to core, with all platforms accurately synchronized to one global reference clock.

Endace customers are using NinjaProbe for a variety of critical network monitoring activities. From network security to latency measurement, NinjaProbe scours every packet and measures every detail. Summary statistics can be forwarded as NetFlow records, while whole chunks of captured data can be requested through our data mining and open API capabilities.

For customers looking to also upgrade their monitoring applications, the NinjaProbe CACE Pilot Network Analyzer offers a completely new and intuitive drag and drop interface for network analysis. Fully integrated with NinjaProbe, the CACE Pilot Network Analysis Component is a client server solution that uses meta data for graphing traffic summaries while also supplying complete or filtered traffic captures for Wireshark dissection. Combined with the Endace Applied Watch Command Center for alert notification and data mining, Endace products can form the backbone of your monitoring infrastructure and the core of your network operations center.