Bandwidth Capacity Planning
Analyze network traffic and bandwidth to plan capacity needs
Plan Your Bandwidth Capacity by Using Intuitive Network Analytics Software
With intuitive analytics for your network, SolarWinds® NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) allows you to easily collect network performance data and view trends through customizable data correlation. You can analyze flow data from a variety of vendors, such as NetFlow v5 and v9, Juniper J-Flow, Huawei NetStream, and more. NTA also allows you to create customizable address groups, so you can analyze traffic patterns of your most important IP addresses.
Determine the Source of Bandwidth Usage by Using Detailed Bandwidth Monitoring
With NTA, you can perform custom network analytics for easier bandwidth capacity planning. NTA allows you to measure bandwidth usage per application, and set alerts that trigger when bandwidth crosses a customizable threshold. You can also measure bandwidth usage for IP groups, to track traffic between your most important sources and destinations. NTA’s intuitive interface allows you to view bandwidth usage and graphical data from your NTA control center.
Analyze Network Traffic and Identify Bottlenecks by Using PerfStack
A central feature of NTA is PerfStack, which allows you to easily correlate and compare data points from your network monitoring. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, PerfStack provides an opportunity to quickly analyze disparate network traffic metrics, as well as other metrics, like database and virtualization data—all a common timeline. With fast, comprehensive insights, bandwidth capacity planning has never been more user-friendly.
Identify High-Bandwidth Applications and Discover Top Talkers for Effective Capacity Planning
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For effective network capacity planning, you will need a way to quickly identify top talkers. IP addresses consuming the most bandwidth are the top talkers in your network and are slowing down your network performance. NTA offers top talker alerts based on utilization thresholds so you can receive an email notification as soon as a device’s bandwidth exceeds your custom threshold.
View Detailed Network Traffic and Bandwidth Reports for User-Friendly Capacity Planning
Bandwidth and network traffic reports are another reason why NTA is so effective in helping admins identify and plan bandwidth capacity. Customizable reporting tools in NTA allow you to zero in on the metrics that matter most, all in a user-friendly format that can be easily exported. NTA reports can include a variety of receive and transmit statistics, as well as MAC address metrics and more. With reporting on current and historical data, you can plan your bandwidth capacity in the context of past trends.
Get More on Bandwidth Capacity Planning
Do you find yourself asking…
Bandwidth capacity planning provides the groundwork for ensuring that your network can effectively support future usage levels in a way that doesn’t impact business performance.
Bandwidth is a measure of the rate of data transmission across a certain path, calculated in bits per second. When bandwidth is high, a large amount of data can flow per second through a given path. When bandwidth is low your overall network performance becomes slow. Bandwidth capacity planning allows you to both optimize current network usage and be proactive in allocating sufficient bandwidth for future needs.
When you plan for your bandwidth capacity, the first step is understanding your current network traffic patterns. Once you identify how your network is being used, you can find the sources of low bandwidth, and decide how to address your top talkers.
Effective bandwidth capacity planning ultimately allows you to make your network faster and more effective to avoid business disruptions and save money.
Bandwidth capacity planning provides the groundwork for ensuring that your network can effectively support future usage levels in a way that doesn’t impact business performance.
Bandwidth is a measure of the rate of data transmission across a certain path, calculated in bits per second. When bandwidth is high, a large amount of data can flow per second through a given path. When bandwidth is low your overall network performance becomes slow. Bandwidth capacity planning allows you to both optimize current network usage and be proactive in allocating sufficient bandwidth for future needs.
When you plan for your bandwidth capacity, the first step is understanding your current network traffic patterns. Once you identify how your network is being used, you can find the sources of low bandwidth, and decide how to address your top talkers.
Effective bandwidth capacity planning ultimately allows you to make your network faster and more effective to avoid business disruptions and save money.
Bandwidth Capacity Planning Tools to Reduce Downtime and Improve Network Performance
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
- Automate bandwidth monitoring to find the source of bandwidth usage
- Get in-depth network traffic data comparison
- Use intuitive network traffic and bandwidth reports
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