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nGeniusONE Service Assurance for
Why Choose NETSCOUT?
Innovation
• Inventor of network instrumentation
Dependability
• More than 25 years dedicated to
delivering ITOPs solutions
Scalability and Scope
• Carrier-class scalability in an easy-to-use
solution
Core Functionality
The nGeniusONE™ platform with ASI
technology delivers real-time, actionable
operational intelligence enabling:
• Rich analysis and metrics to quickly
isolate and address service-impacting
issues with nGeniusONE ASI technology
combined with the NSX virtual network
visibility.
• Holistic end-to-end visibility into
physical, virtual, and hybrid service
delivery infrastructure.
• Proactive service triage that helps
resolve problems in real-time, and
assure positive customer and user
experience.
• Comprehensive service performance
management platform across voice,
data, and video services from a single
pane of glass.
• Ultra-high scalability assures service
delivery across any size service provider
and enterprise infrastructure.
ENTERPRISE
VMware NSX Environments
The Challenge of Keeping End-Users Happy
The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is defined by three pillars – compute virtualization,
storage virtualization and network virtualization. VMware®, the market leader and technology
innovator, deploys NSX for network virtualization, the third critical pillar, and delivers key benefits
to the network including simplified management, provisioning agility and enhanced data center
economics. With NSX, networks can be programmatically managed and provisioned on demand,
resulting in improved service velocity.
If services leveraging NSX are disrupted or delayed, the data center team must resolve the issue
quickly (Mean-Time-to-Repair/Resolution – MTTR) and in most cases, also prove it is NOT an
NSX issue at all (Mean-Time-to-Innocence – MTTI). Relying on point management tools that look
at symptoms one at a time, without context, typically can only rule out one area of the service
delivery chain. Often cumbersome and incomplete, the use of these tools introduces large
delays in diagnosing the true root cause of the problem, while the impact to customers and
business users can be devastating. NETSCOUT’s unique approach eliminates these problems
and enables faster MTTR and MTTI.
NETSCOUT has partnered with VMware NSX to provide service assurance solutions for SDDC
environments. The solution enables enterprises and service providers to have end-to-end
application visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid data center environments, allowing
them to deliver agile, high quality, cost effective IP services. With accelerating adoption of
SDDC architectures, distributed functions and increasingly dynamic data center environments,
data center operators need real-time feedback on applications to ensure service assurance.
NETSCOUT provides application-level visibility into VMware’s NSX including connected virtual
machines (VMs) and network health.
nGeniusONE
User Communities
Network Ingress/Egress
Domain Controllers Load alancer/ADC
DNS, RADIUS, Diameter
Active Directory
Kerberos
Application Application
Servers Servers
Web Servers
VXLAN VXLAN
Intra-VM Traffic Intra-VM Traffic
Monitoring SQL Servers Monitoring
Figure: nGeniusONE with ASI technology delivers always-on, real-time monitoring and analysis
of mission critical NSX environments to reduce MTTR.
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With the nGeniusONE platform, data center operators gain visibility into applications traversing NSX environments for the following use cases:

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enterprise environment, often referred to as north – south traffic, using the InfiniStream® appliances that decode the Virtual Extensible LAN
(VXLAN) encapsulation and access the original packet flow data between the VMs.
• a c a a sis i a c by correlating application performance in the VXLAN overlay network with the VXLAN Network Identifier
(VNI) and underlying physical network and host identities.
• i s a i i i a a a sis a c s sa is by embedding NETSCOUT’s patented ASI
technology into a VM, for east – west traffic analysis.
• Continuous real-time monitoring and analysis of multi-tier east – west and north – s a ac a c by collecting data from a
combination of multi-tier physical and virtual service delivery environments, correlating, and contextually analyzing all the interrelationships and
dependencies across all monitored service delivery components including n-tier applications, workloads, protocols, servers, databases, users,
and devices.

Trusted Leader in Service Assurance

NETSCOUT has been singularly focused on providing innovative technology and solutions targeted to network, application and service performance
management for nearly three decades. NETSCOUT is an International Data Corporation (IDC) market share leader with more than one billion
dollars in annual revenues. We invented network instrumentation, created Sniffer®, patented ASI and most recently, released nGeniusONE with its
one-of-a-kind view of services across network and application environments. Our solutions are deployed and operating in the world’s largest, most
complex networks for some of the most demanding enterprises, government agencies and services providers. By providing unmatched visibility,
high quality analytics and superior visualization capabilities, we help people pinpoint the root cause of service delivery problems across complex
global environments.

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• Enable quick time to resolution and MTTR reduction with carefully crafted workflows
• Use contextual analysis of server, network, and application performance with patented ASI technology
• Support large scale geographically distributed deployments with scalable, enterprise-class architecture
• Continuously monitor, triage and troubleshoot IP-based business services
• Get insight into the performance of all infrastructure and application components involved in service delivery
• User-friendly Dashboard, Service and Traffic Monitors with contextual Session Analysis and Packet Analysis drill downs
• Create day-to-day operational reports which can be scheduled for recurring delivery with built-in reporting module

About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTCT) is the market leader in service assurance solutions that enable enterprise and service provider
organizations to assure the quality of the user experience for business and mobile services. NETSCOUT technology helps these organizations
proactively manage service delivery and identify emerging performance problems, helping to quickly resolve issues that cause business disruptions
or negatively impact users of information technology. For more information, please visit www.NETSCOUT.com.

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