With Visual Performance Manager, Visual Network Systems has once again leveraged an important Cisco technology—Cisco WAAS. By integrating WAAS-specific analytics along with NetFlow data into Visual Performance Manager, Visual Network Systems is able to provide Cisco WAAS customers and prospects:

• A baseline of non-optimized utilization and performance—identify the sites/applications that are the top candidates for optimization
• Clear views of WAN bandwidth consumption—quantify the reduction provided by WAAS
• Visibility into application performance before, during and after WAAS deployment—prove the improvements experience by the end users
• The ability to see WAAS Policy details all the way down to the user and transaction level—measure the reduced data transfer times for optimized traffic

Simply put, Visual Performance Manager helps to prove the value and ROI of the WAAS investment, providing the justification needed for an initial or an expanded deployment. Once WAAS is fully implemented, these same capabilities can be used to provide in-depth usage forensics, response analytics, and rapid root-cause analysis.