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News Release from: NetTest | Subject: Fastnet v7.5
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2002
Network monitor uses IP address range
filtering
Fastnet v7.5 is the latest version of the nonintrusive enterprise network monitoring system from NetTest.
Fastnet v7.5 is the latest version of the nonintrusive enterprise network monitoring system from NetTest The upgrade's advanced functionality allows network managers to conduct IP address range filtering, which pinpoints specific ranges of IP addresses where problems typically reside
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This ability to pinpoint IP problems faster helps network mangers save time and make more efficient use of network bandwidth.
"By specifying a range of IP addresses to monitor, users can configure multiple probes to watch a line with large numbers of IP addresses.
This ability to hone in on specified IP ranges helps users efficiently monitor key, high impact IP addresses amongst the myriad of IP addresses in use", said Martin Lomp, director of research and development at NetTest.
"We believe this important new functionality meets a critical challenge facing network managers today".
Fastnet v7.5 supports a series of new ATM QoS parameters, which helps IT managers provide excellent quality of service to both internal and external customers.
The product provides users with real-time statistics, utilisation reports and VP/VC QoS reports for the following parameters: sustained cell rate (SCR); peak cell rate (PCR); maximum burst size (MBS); and minimum cell rate (MCR).
Another new feature of Fastnet v7.5 is the ability to automatically export IP and protocol statistics for use by network managers allowing them to boost the performance of their existing systems.
Other enhancements allow users to sort data on any column that uses ActiveX components, namely websites, HTML pages and dashboards.
This functionality lets users customise reports to meet the needs of their organisation.
Finally, Fastnet v7.5 monitors frame relay links where FRF.9 compression is activated.
Fastnet also now supports the "default data compression function definition".
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