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Cisco Branch Routers Series Network Analysis Module 4.0
Overview
Q.
What is Cisco
®
Branch Routers Series Network Analysis Module (NAM)?
A.
Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM is a powerful network-aware performance monitoring solution that delivers
unparalleled insight into application performance and network traffic to help ensure the consistent and efficient
delivery of applications and services to end users. It provides visibility into the applications running on the
network, how the network resources are being utilized, and how the users experience the services being
delivered over the network. It enhances the performance of the empowered branch with integrated
manageability, improved service quality, and operational effectiveness.
The unique design of Cisco NAM combines a rich set of embedded data collection capabilities and performance
analytics with a remotely accessible, web-based management console, all of which reside on a single network
module that is installed into Cisco 3900 Series, Cisco 2900 Series, Cisco 3800 Series or Cisco 2800 Series
Integrated Services Routers (ISRs), or Cisco 3700 Series Multiservice Access Routers (MSRs). Cisco NAM
includes a Traffic Analyzer GUI, which provides quick access to the configuration menus and both real-time and
historical performance reports.
Q.
What are the key features and benefits of Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM?
A.
Table 1 lists the key features and benefits.
Table 1.
Key Features of Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM
Feature
Description
Application performance
monitoring
monitoring
Offers application performance monitoring and real-time visibility for voice, video, and data applications. Cisco NAM
helps improve the operational efficiency of IT organizations by helping enable them to proactively detect
performance degradation, quickly identify its source, and troubleshoot the underlying issues.
helps improve the operational efficiency of IT organizations by helping enable them to proactively detect
performance degradation, quickly identify its source, and troubleshoot the underlying issues.
Transaction-aware application
response time monitoring
response time monitoring
Analyzes TCP-based application packets as they travel from the client through the network to the data center and
out again, providing insight into network round-trip time, server response time, data transfer time, transaction time,
and so on, to improve application performance.
out again, providing insight into network round-trip time, server response time, data transfer time, transaction time,
and so on, to improve application performance.
Cisco Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS) support
Services (WAAS) support
Provides end-to-end application performance visibility in a WAAS deployment. It measures and reports on
application response time, WAN bandwidth usage, LAN/WAN data throughput among a number of other
performance metrics.
application response time, WAN bandwidth usage, LAN/WAN data throughput among a number of other
performance metrics.
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and video
packet quality analysis
packet quality analysis
Analyzes voice and video packet streams and provides visibility into key network performance indicators to
maximize the quality of the user experience.
maximize the quality of the user experience.
Comprehensive flow-based
monitoring
monitoring
Automatically identifies hundreds of protocols and provides real-time and historical performance reports on hosts,
conversations, and applications using critical network resources.
conversations, and applications using critical network resources.
LAN and WAN monitoring in
one solution
one solution
Provides visibility into traffic from local and remote switches and routers for comprehensive traffic monitoring.
Web-based captures for deep,
insightful data analysis
insightful data analysis
Captures the packets to help resolve acute problems before they affect users. Captures can be performed using a
web browser from any desktop, and the decodes can be viewed through the Traffic Analyzer GUI. Extensive capture
features, including trigger-based captures, decodes, filters, and a capture analysis toolset, help to quickly pinpoint
and resolve problem areas.
web browser from any desktop, and the decodes can be viewed through the Traffic Analyzer GUI. Extensive capture
features, including trigger-based captures, decodes, filters, and a capture analysis toolset, help to quickly pinpoint
and resolve problem areas.
Anytime, anywhere access
Includes an embedded Traffic Analyzer web interface that can be accessed from any desktop, eliminating the need
to send personnel to remote sites or haul large amounts of data over WAN links to the central site.
to send personnel to remote sites or haul large amounts of data over WAN links to the central site.
Pre- and postdeployment
metrics to quantify business
changes
metrics to quantify business
changes
Provides valuable “before and after” traffic analytics to help plan for and verify changes in network resources, such
as new application rollouts, WAN optimization, server consolidation, segmenting the network, and deploying VoIP
and video.
as new application rollouts, WAN optimization, server consolidation, segmenting the network, and deploying VoIP
and video.
Secure solution
Offers TACACS+, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol-based security.
Deployment flexibility
Cisco NAM can be deployed in blade form factor in Cisco Catalyst
®
6500 Series Switches, Cisco 7600 Series
Routers, and Cisco Integrated Services Routers, and as a multigigabit appliance. This complement of blades and
appliances allows NAM instrumentation to be broadly deployed in the network for comprehensive performance
monitoring.
appliances allows NAM instrumentation to be broadly deployed in the network for comprehensive performance
monitoring.