NetQoS integrates with Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices
July 25, 2007
LONDON -- NetQoS® Inc. is working with Cisco® to develop a management interface for accurate end-to-end application response time measurement for WAN optimisation. Integrated in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) devices, the software will allow IT organisations to accurately validate the results of WAN optimisation deployments.
“This is a significant advancement in the WAN optimisation space, because accurate response time data is essential to ensuring WAN optimisation deployments are fully optimising application performance for the end user, and no other WAN optimisation solution offers this,” said Dr. Cathy Fulton, NetQoS CTO. “Current WAN optimisation technologies obscure application response times through locally acknowledged TCP sessions, making it difficult to quantify the real benefits of a WAN optimisation deployment. NetQoS and Cisco have developed a truly end-to-end solution where application performance statistics are captured and reported from the end user to the data centre.”
The integrated software on Cisco WAAS devices will export TCP header information before optimisation occurs to NetQoS SuperAgent, the end-to-end performance monitoring module of the NetQoS Performance Center product suite. Using Cisco WAAS with NetQoS SuperAgent will help enable joint customers to quantify Cisco WAAS response time improvements accurately with before and after analysis and provide consistent and improved application delivery to end users.
To measure Cisco WAAS traffic flow improvements, Cisco and NetQoS will also market NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer™, the traffic analysis module of the NetQoS Performance Center that reports on enterprise wide Cisco IOS® NetFlow statistics. Cisco WAAS provides compliance with network-based NetFlow collection and export, and does not impede the ability to see traffic composition before and after WAN optimisation is applied.
“Cisco WAAS integrates transparently within customers’ networks, and the management interface we have developed with NetQoS extends that transparency to performance reporting data, giving our customers accurate insight into how to best leverage our technology to maximise application performance and remote user productivity,” said Dr. Issy Ben-Shaul, CTO of the Application Delivery Business Unit, Cisco.
NetQoS Inc.
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