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Niksun - Network security and performance monitoring

Today’s globally integrated IP networks, applications and services are very tightly coupled. Understanding the complex interactions to ensure that the network, applications and services are robust and secure requires a new approach.

  • continuous network data capture and storage
  • advanced data warehousing and mining
  • drill-down forensic analysis to packet level
  • enterprise-wide event corellation
  • signature and statistical anomaly detection
  • advanced reconstruction of web, email, IM, FTP, telnet, VoIP and applications

Overview

NIKSUN's revolutionary approach is similar to having a "Camera on the Network" with all the intelligence built into the camera for real-time motion analysis. By combining techniques from various fields such as chaos theory, fractal analytics, data warehousing and data mining, the company has completely revolutionized how networks, applications and services are secured and managed. Niksun's “network recording” technology is the basis of its NetVCR and NetDetector products.

NIKSUN has perfected its multidisciplinary technology for use in many business areas - including security surveillance, anomaly/intrusion detection, forensics, compliance, interception, network performance, quality of service / service level management, and root-cause analytics.

The Niksun product range is built around specialist network-connected hardware appliances - which provide the basic data capture, storage, mining and analysis functionality - and a number of software modules for applications such as expert forensic and compliance analysis.

Since its inception in 1997, NIKSUN has been the premier provider of solutions that comprehensively monitor the network for performance , security and policy compliance initiatives .

It was the first in the industry to invent technology that can be used to oversee large, complicated network environments in a manner similar to a camera recording real-life events.

NIKSUN NetDetector

Proactive Security Surveillance Solution

NIKSUN's award-winning NetDetector is a full-featured appliance for network security surveillance, detection, analytics, and forensics. It complements existing network security infrastructure, including firewalls/IPS, IDS, and switches/routers, to help provide defence at unprecedented depths.

NetDetector acts as a Security Camera and Motion Detector for your network by continuously capturing and warehousing network traffic, and  alerting on specific signatures and traffic patterns. Built-in modules provide complementary signature and statistical anomaly detection, thus locating the "needles" of relevant actionable information in the "haystack" of raw data. Advanced reconstruction capabilities allow for detailed review of  web, email, Instant Messaging , FTP, Telnet, and other applications.

A highly intuitive web-based GUI eliminates the need to load a special client application for access. As a single appliance the NetDetector suite offers a powerful security surveillance solution in its own right. When appliances are distributed throughout the enterprise and then centrally managed along with aggregated reporting and analysis , a new unprecedented level of security monitoring unfolds.

Key Benefits

  • Continuous and complete real-time surveillance
  • Capture network events the first time and store for long time
  • Superior drill-down forensic analysis, down to packet level
  • Signature and Statistical Anomaly Detection
  • Advanced reconstruction of web, email, IM , FTP, Telnet, VoIP applications
  • Powerful string search
  • Advanced reporting, both scheduled and on-demand
  • Flexible and secure data export/import, including common 3rd party formats
  • Powerful Event Viewer
  • Unlimited storage (add as you grow)
  • Secure and easy-to-use web interface with role-based access control
  • Cisco IDS, Micromuse NetCool, and IBM/Tivoli Risk Manager compatible integration

NIKSUN NetVCR

Proactive Network, Service and Application Monitoring Appliance


NIKSUN NetVCR is the world's first full-function network appliance that proactively alerts you to network, service or application performance issues. If a problem does occur, you can troubleshoot it remotely via a secure web connection. NIKSUN's powerful and easy-to-use tools help you minimise network disruption and understand the underlying causes of problems.

The NetVCR full-function appliance offers you all the features and functions you need for proactive end-to-end SLM/QoS monitoring, alerting and surveillance from the link to application & service, real-time & historical expert analysis , and the industry's first and leading data-warehouse allowing for quick and easy remote troubleshooting.

Key Benefits

  • 100% visibility into your network in real-time
  • Capture network events the first time
  • End-to-end proactive network and application performance monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Superior drill-down forensic analysis
  • Integrated performance reports on all traffic
  • Unlimited storage (add as you grow)
  • Secure and easy-to-use web interface
  • Extensive 3rd-party compatibility

NIKSUN NetVoice

VoIP Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting Solution

NIKSUN NetVoice is a powerful Voice-over-IP (VoIP) network management and security monitoring solution. NetVoice measures, records and reports on every VoIP flow in the network in real-time at production network traffic rates. It enables no-loss VoIP monitoring for enterprise and service provider networks. Its distributed and scalable architecture enables complete end-to-end monitoring in large-scale environments.

NetVoice's multi-time scale (packet to seconds to minutes to hours...) and multi-level (link, to application level) monitoring capability makes it an essential tool for VoIP network performance monitoring and troubleshooting. NetVoice provides 100% visibility into a VoIP network and captures network incidents the first time saving time and reducing costs for enterprises and service providers.

Key Benefits

  • End-to-end proactive network & application performance
  • High-speed non-intrusive complete or filtered VoIP recording, analysis and playback (audio & video)
  • Collects, records and analyzes virtually unlimited calls
  • Analyzes data with time resolution down to the microsecond
  • Completely correlated call to message to packet level analysis
  • Complete call level QoS details: Delay, Loss, Jitter and MOS score
  • Powerful analysis & filtering for real-time remote diagnostics

NIKSUN NetTrident

Enterprise Network Monitoring and Analysis Solution

The speed and complexity of today's enterprise networks is rapidly increasing with more users, applications and global offices going online and contributing to a business's operations and revenues.

Monitoring a complex global enterprise network is a challenge. - Which application uses the most (or least) amount of enterprise bandwidth? - Which IP address is the Top Talker across the enterprise? - What are the unauthorized protocols on the network?

Network incidents and outages, even if they are of very short duration, can have enormous financial consequences. This has resulted in an urgent need for powerful and easy-to-use enterprise-scale surveillance solutions that can continuously and proactively monitor the network. 

NIKSUN NetTrident is an integrated and scalable enterprise surveillance solution that captures and quickly resolves any security, network or service event the first time. Proactive alerting and drill-down forensic analysis enable you to quickly identify the root-cause of any incident, wherever it may have occurred, to help you ensure that your network is secure and operating at peak performance all the time.

Key Benefits

  • 100% visibility into your network in real-time
  • Capture network events the first time
  • End-to-end proactive network and application performance monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Superior drill-down forensic analysis
  • Integrated performance reports on all traffic
  • Unlimited storage (add as you grow)
  • Secure and easy-to-use web interface
  • Extensive 3rd-party compatibility
  • Packet viewing, Trend Analysis & Network Planning

NIKSUN NetX

Centralized Network Management and Reporting Solution

NIKSUN NetX is a centralized network management and reporting application for NIKSUN NetVCR & NetDetector . NetX reports provide an enterprise-wide view of services, applications and networks. A variety of specific network reports such as application response times, network latency, network utilization, application performance, server usage, subnet to subnet latency, Top N, talkers, etc. easily provide total network visibility. In addition, specific security related reports show exactly where and how viruses, worms and trojans propagate the network.

Besides generating enterprise-wide reports on well-known applications (WEB, mail, database, etc.), NetX enables the creation of custom applications and generation of custom reports.

With aggregated analysis, monitoring and reporting capabilities provided by NetX, users now have the ability to compile data from multiple NIKSUN appliances providing an in-depth 24x7 view of the entire network.

Key Benefits

  • Aggregates all Warehoused Data to Generate Business Unit Specific Reports
  • Cross Organizational Benefits: Leverage Data For Security, Optimization, Trending, ...
  • Manipulate Enterprise-wide Data to Profile, Design & Ensure Highly Available Services

Add-on Solution Modules

NIKSUN offers a number of easy-to-use solution modules that extend the power and capabilities of NIKSUN appliances for performance and security management of LAN, MAN and WAN environments.

NIKSUN NetReporter

NetReporter enables users to create on demand or scheduled network, application, security and performance reports. The graphical and tabular reports are published on web pages or are available for distribution in email using PDF, CSV or HTML formats. Performance reports include link utilization, application performance, top host, host pair, Frame Relay QoS, etc. Security reports include event severity distribution, most frequent breaches, top offenders, etc. Network Journal reports combine various reports and correlate information in one easy step.

NIKSUN NetMulticast

NetMulticast monitors and troubleshoots multicast traffic on the network's Access, Distribution and Core layers. NetMulticast provides multicast application, traffic and protocol drill-down information for all sources and groups. NetMulticast alerts on utilization levels (including short spikes), retransmits, QoS level, etc. NetMulticast reports enable long-term trending and capacity planning. Optional reachability analysis tools are available for testing end-to-end reachability, path delay analysis, active source/groups, etc.

NIKSUN NetVoice

NetVoice measures, records and reports on every VoIP flow in the network (in real-time) at production network traffic rates. It enables no-loss VoIP multi-time scale (packet to seconds to minutes to hours ...) and multi-level (link- to application-level) monitoring and troubleshooting on LAN, MAN and WAN interfaces. NetVoice provides VoIP protocol decodes, QoS statistics (jitter, delay, packet loss), MOS score, audio/video reconstruction & playback and quality metrics based on the ITU standard 'E Modal' (MOS).

NIKSUN NetXperts

NIKSUN NetXperts is a client side non-intrusive analysis and troubleshooting expert solution that delivers powerful network performance and security analysis capabilities. NetXperts not only has a substantial library of experts but also includes a set of performance analysis tools providing an in-depth analysis of networks and applications. The Xpert analysis enable users to find and fix network performance and security problems faster than ever before. NetXperts allows sensitivity analysis using easy parameter variation.

NIKSUN NetRTX

NetVCR Real-Time Xperts (NetRTX) bring powerful real-time expert and alerting capabilities that enable network operations and trouble-ticketing personnel to quickly resolve problems in the network or application. From the NIKSUN Event Viewer, users can view and analyze NetRTX alerts and drill down to pinpoint the root cause and identify the services and users impacted. The alerts (SNMP traps or Syslog) can be exported to external management systems and easily integrated into existing management systems.

NIKSUN NetSLM

NetSLM generates service-level or quality of service (QoS) alerts on application or network response times, retransmissions, utilization, bit-rate service levels, etc. NetSLM alerts (upper or lower threshold breaches) can be analyzed with NIKSUN's analysis tools. NetSLM alerts are completely customizable with user-defined filters, monitoring severities, time intervals, etc. Also, NIKSUN alerts are compatible with and can be exported to various external management systems.

NIKSUN NetUsage

NetUsage enables users to generate and collect IP flow based detail records for IP Billing, Accounting, etc. NetUsage polls the data from NIKSUN appliances. The measurements, data collection parameters, export file format/time intervals are all user-configurable. Internet Protocol Detailed Records (IPDRs), aggregated and generated by NIKSUN appliances, can be viewed with NetUsage. In addition to being certified as interoperable with various third-party tools, NetUsage files can be polled by all major mediation and aggregation systems.

NIKSUN NetPoller

NIKSUN NetPoller complements NetVCR's extremely powerful and cost-effective network monitoring capability by providing detailed switch link-level traffic information and distributed polling capability. After polling switch MIB II++ data, NetPoller provides a detailed view (traffic utilization, discards, error data, etc. perswitch port) and a high-level view of the network (e.g., unicast, broadcast, multicast). NetPoller's switch polling intervals and polling targets, etc., are customizable and scale down to seconds.

NIKSUN RMON Module

Network management systems can remotely access RMON traffic statistics and data that has been captured by NetVCR. Alerts and SNMP traps can be exported to external management systems. NetVCR RMON data is more accurate than most RMON based probes, because it is derived from 'true' network traffic, as opposed to periodic sampling (polling). NetVCR supports critical RMON I /II groups.The NIKSUN RMON module is certified to be compliant with various solutions for LAN and WAN such as 10/100/1000 Ethernet, FrameRelay, ATM, PoS, etc.

To find out more about Niksun products call Phoenix Datacom on 01296 397711, send an email or use the Request More Info form.

 

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