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News Release from: Fluke Networks | Subject: OptiView Series III
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2007
Network analyser integrates full
functionality
Fluke Networks has added several new capabilities to its market-leading OptiView integrated network analyser.
Fluke Networks has added several new capabilities to its market-leading OptiView integrated network analyser With these added functions the OptiView Series III integrated network analyser becomes the only portable integrated analyser with enterprise-wide vision for managing infrastructure changes, deploying new applications and technologies, solving network and application performance issues and securing the network from internal threats
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The OptiView Series III integrated network analyser has been re-engineered to help network managers and engineers implement their current IT projects as well as perform rapid root-cause troubleshooting analysis.
This results in lower IT costs, reduced risk of deploying new network services and infrastructure, increased data security and regulatory compliance and improved internal user satisfaction.
The new OptiView Series III supports major IT initiatives through several capabilities.
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In addition to free string match filters and triggers, OptiView Series III now offers 802.1x authentication, gigabit line rate traffic generation and Internetwork Throughput testing, encapsulation independent protocol filtering, application-level traffic analysis and application-layer bounce charts for application performance visualisation.
The analyser can identify and match any set of words or phrases in network traffic, regardless of the position in the packet, for full line rate filtering on gigabit links.
This allows detection and capture of traffic containing certain words or phrases in nonencrypted e-mails, web pages, file transfers or documents to identify illicit use of the network.
"The combination of free string match and trigger is a great tool to solve an issue I run into frequently".
"Now I can enter the error message the terminal receives from the server, trigger on it and capture the traffic around the event - before and after", said Mike Pennacchi, Executive Network Analyst, Network Protocol Specialists.
Free string match can also identify and track applications that are not allowed on the network, such as streaming media that may consume valuable bandwidth, or P2P applications that may pose a security risk.
Intermittent performance problems can also be diagnosed faster with free string match.
Intermittents which can take days or even weeks to solve can now be fixed in a day or less.
OptiView Series III integrated network analyser can capture traffic around any application error message, saving time and frustration when pinpointing elusive intermittent problems.
New to the OptiView Series III integrated network analyser is real-time application analysis on gigabit links.
Users can determine the specific endpoints (server, host) using each application, and perform layer 3 or layer 2 trace routes to identify the switch or router interface to which the endpoint is connected for each application.
This saves time and takes the pain out of deploying new applications on higher-speed links.
The OptiView Series III integrated network analyser is available for immediate delivery from Fluke Networks sales partners worldwide.
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