Allot NetXplorer centralised management system works in harmony with Allot NetEnforcer devices in the network to provide the network business intelligence that is needed to understand service behavior and control service delivery. Its intuitive interface, rich functionality, and wide array of on-demand reports allow broadband service providers to:
- Get a consolidated, real-time picture of all traffic on the network
- Track bandwidth usage, per application and per user
- Analyse traffic patterns and usage trends
- Identify malicious traffic and neutralise attacks
- Translate business decisions into automated service control policies
Complete Visibility and Control
NetXplorer provides the necessary in-depth insight and analysis you need to understand your network and directly link between business goals and network traffic and behavior. Facilitating the decision-making process and streamlining network efficiency, NetXplorer is a highly scalable system that uses a single, easy-to-use GUI to deliver unsurpassed network analysis suitable for short-term network troubleshooting or for understanding long-term trend and usage patterns. Control capabilities include simultaneous provisioning of policies and configuration, updating and distribution of data to all managed Allot NetEnforcer devices.
Integrated in NetEnforcer, the NetXplorer management software achieves a level of network intelligence that ensures optimal network performance, security and management, and caters to application, user and subscriber needs.
For Service Providers, NetXplorer provides the visibility and tools that deliver traffic and subscriber information and control in broadband networks. This is particularly important in controlling operation costs, reducing subscriber churn, increasing revenues (ARPU) and providing new, differentiated services.
For Enterprises, NetXplorer provides network visibility that extends beyond the infrastructure and enables you to link business policies to specific network actions, which is particularly important to ensure mission-critical applications and contain network costs.
- Network-wide visibility using DPI technology for in-depth analysis, including identification of traffic trends and drilling down to the individual device, user or application level for real-time troubleshooting
- Intuitive interface which provides both a logical network-wide perspective together with the power to quickly navigate down to the device, user or application level
- Monitoring and analysis, including in-depth analysis down to single user sessions and single applications, real-time monitoring, short-term monitoring for the collection of highly granular information, and storage of network activities in a high resolution data warehouse
- Insightful reporting of information in real time and over time for evaluation of trends and accurate capacity planning, and for tracking usage for accounting or charge-back purposes using volume-based reports in hundreds of customisable formats
- Building policies to enable the rapid deployment of services or service changes and automatic distribution of configurations and changes to all managed NetEnforcer units
- Configuration and policy provisioning of managed NetEnforcers without logging into each device
- Frontline security enabling easy detection of potential DoS/DDoS attacks or network-born security attacks, setting of thresholds, generation of alarms, and automatic execution of corrective actions
- Intelligent alarms about abnormal events and automatically invoke corrective actions before problems become costly
NetXplorer is based on a highly-scalable architecture which powers the monitoring of all NetEnforcer devices from a single, intuitive user interface. A single installation package for Windows XP and Windows 2003 servers, system architecture consists of three layers:
The Client Layer is the NetXplorer GUI application, comprising different clients that connect to the NetXplorer Server.
The Server Layer incorporates the actual NetXplorer application, including the database. Managing and communicating with the different clients that access the system, it facilitates NetEnforcer configuration, policy provisioning, alarms, monitoring and reporting. The NetXplorer also includes an integrated data collector, which streamlines the required collection of data from the managed NetEnforcer devices.
The Agent Layer is an optional component which enables the NetEnforcer to be managed by the NetXplorer and support all management functions.
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