Despite the increased capacity available on WAN links, service providers and enterprises often find bandwidth in short supply. This occurs even though most links average only 30%-40% utilisation, and at best 50%-70% when specialised equipment is used. Today’s best practice is to reserve significant capacity, often half of the total link capacity, to ensure a constant data flow during traffic surges and bandwidth-hogging application sessions, such as peer-to-peer downloads.

FirstWave uses a technology that empowers WAN link utilisation at 95% or better without loss of connections, delay in traffic flow, queuing, or buffering. Under policy control, every user gets a fair and equitable share of the bandwidth, with high quality of experience (QoE). FirstWave’s Secure Traffic Manager (STM) runs virtual machines (VM), dedicated servers, or on our branded devices.

This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.

Key Points:

• How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
• Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
• Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
• What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.

This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.

Key Points:

• How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
• Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
• Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
• Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
• Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
• Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
• Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.

In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.

The BG Unified Solutions team consists of experts in different technologies like security, voice, load balancers, WAN, WAN optimization, Cloud, and Cisco Technologies. As experts across different technologies, their focus is to provide competitive, affordable and Unified Solutions to our clients.

BG Unified is a business that is built upon their clients trusting in the services that are delivered, whether that is infrastructure, backup, email, database or platform as a service, Saurabh Sareen (Sunny), BG Unified Solutions Co-Founder and Managing Director, aims for, and delivers, 100% uptime to his clients.

Network bandwidth has always been a precious commodity and given our current circumstances with so many people working from home, many companies have not had the bandwidth they need in the right places. This E-book will help you with some strategies on how to detect bandwidth issues, further diagnose those issues, and what actions you can take to relieve those bandwidth issues.

This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation.

Key Points:

• Focus on good operational practices.
• Picking the right tasks.
• Handling of common issues through automation.
• Mapping out the automation process.
• Time savings.
• Checklist.

The guide discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the steps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.