Education

Education and University networks utilize Packet Design solutions to help solve the hardest problems in IP networks and deliver excellent service to their large and diverse user base

The large size and diverse composition of education and University networks, coupled with small network engineering staffs, calls for more automated and efficient ways of maintaining high quality network infrastructure services. Traditional network management solutions don't address the dynamic, network-layer problems that are the key root cause of most IP network problems today. The lack of network-layer management tools leads to unexplained brown-outs, intermittent disruptions, performance degradations, and other unpredictable network behavior, that impacts campus and educational services, as well as faculty and staff productivity.

Packet Design solutions allows IT departments to increase the availability and performance of critical applications by providing visibility into the inner workings of IP network routing and traffic flows. Packet Design solutions provide real-time, network-wide monitoring and analysis of both routing and traffic flows on every link in the network. Analysis capabilities correlate traffic and routing changes, identify top traffic talkers and listeners, and provide deep root cause analysis of complex routing issues to help avert problems as they avert and to reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) for problems that occur. Operationally accurate planning capabilities allow engineers to plan and validate network routing and traffic changes to eliminate unpleasant surprises from misconfigurations. Complementing offline modeling tools, planning features model routing changes and failure scenarios on the as-running network routing and traffic, allowing network engineers to optimize the network's performance and Return on Investment metrics and streamlining ongoing network maintenance operations.

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• Service Providers: Provide enterprise Internet and IP WAN services customers with higher service assurance and more competitive visibility into their IP Services, improve operational efficiency and productivity, achieve greater top and bottom-line results
• Broadband and Cable Operators: Provide subscribers with more reliable and predictable IP-based grand-slam services, and optimize IP engineering for more cost-effective service convergence
• Enterprises: Achieve the mandate of delivering a predictable and explainable IP service infrastructure, increase network engineering's productivity and responsiveness, and strengthen IT's credibility
• Government: Ensure availability and reliability of critical public services, increase productivity, and enhance network management visibility against security threats

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