The average network today is under assault. After a period of sporadic growth, deploying MPLS and migrating to a converged network to support VoIP, many budgets and IT staff numbers are now shrinking within organizations. In order to keep costs in check while ensuring acceptable levels of service, IT departments are commonly turning to point or distributed shaping, compression and acceleration solutions in lieu of adding costly bandwidth.

But, one step that is commonly overlooked when investigating proprietary acceleration technologies is an independent assessment to quantify the perceived benefits and validate the expected ROI. It is in an organizations interest to do a pre assessment, which quantifies the benefits of acceleration or compression prior to a significant investment.

Once such technology is deployed, by leveraging the same agile monitoring visibility used to do the pre-assessment, a consistent set of metrics can be produced that provide a validation of the expected ROI.

During the hour-long webcast, we’ll help you answer key questions like:

• Who are the users and what applications are they using?
• What are my busiest devices and what traffic do they regularly support?
• What was happening during a specific performance issue on the network?
• Are there worms and viruses in my network, where are they, where did they come from, and how widespread is the issue?
• How is quality of service improving performance?
• How do I report overall performance and usage of my network as a whole?