This newsletter is sponsored by NetReality TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter From The Editor CMP News 1. Carriers Expand QoS Options 2. Agilent, NetReality Team To Ease Bottlenecks 3. App Monitoring Moves To The WAN 4. IT Confidential: Napster Touted NetReality's WiseWan NetReality News ======== A Message From Our Sponsor ====== So, you think WAN management is unattainable? Well, think again. NetReality's WiseWan network application priority switch (NAPS) ensures you are never left in the dark about the status of your business-critical protocols. Is your network running efficiently? Are your business-critical applications delivered on-time? Find out how to achieve network-wide Quality of Service and use existing bandwidth more efficiently. For a FREE QoS Analysis, log on to: http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.0 ==================================== LETTER FROM THE EDITOR This time last year it seemed everyone had money to burn. Today, however, IT managers are feeling the pain of ever-dwindling budgets. One category where spending has not been affected, however, is network management; sales have skyrocketed as tight times have forced IT managers to search for better, more efficient ways to use existing bandwidth and forego costly upgrades. Managing bandwidth efficiently and avoiding network traffic congestion are key concerns of IT managers everywhere. With new tools and services available to help confront these ever-present challenges in such rapidly changing environments, companies are now able to take huge steps in prioritizing traffic on IP networks. In this issue, we will examine the new strategies and tools being used to prioritize and manage network traffic for both LANs and WANs. Whether it be a network application priority switch that provides full featured application monitoring that enables QoS and SLA management, the future is now in what some are terming a banner year for bandwidth expansion and management. CMP NEWS 1. Carriers Expand QoS Options New MPLS bandwidth services allow companies to prioritize traffic on IP networks, as carriers expand with QoS options and services. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.1 2. Agilent, NetReality Team To Ease Bottlenecks Companies release existing bandwidth and performance management products. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.2 3. App Monitoring Moves To The WAN A.T. Kearney installed NetReality's WiseWan switches on its T1s, reporting unsurpassed application-level analysis at the WAN level. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.3 4. IT Confidential: Napster Touted NetReality's WiseWan NetReality's WiseWan prioritizes network bandwidth so that Internet downloads don't interfere with enterprise applications. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.4 NETREALITY NEWS NetReality's WiseWan let's you take network management to new levels. NetReality is the leading provider of network application priority switches (NAPS). WiseWan is a total network management solution that provides full-featured monitoring, SLA management and adaptive bandwidth shaping, allowing management of integrated voice and data traffic over IP and Frame Relay networks, helping to guarantee performance of mission-critical applications. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.5 Learn more about WiseWan's key features: Not only does WiseWan sense network congestion and actively employ adaptive techniques for control of network traffic, but it also provides real-time status of the network health, compares traffic flows against QoS policies, boosts performance, cut costs, and more. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.6 WiseWan for the Enterprise Datasheet: Get monitoring, classification, application prioritization, reporting and network troubleshooting answers with this helpful report on WiseWan for Enterprises (in pdf format) http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.7 Visit Net Reality and learn more about the solutions for your enterprise, carrier, and ASP. Plus, view a digital demo. http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.8 For more information about NetReality, click here http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.9 Did someone forward this to you? Would you like to subscribe? http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.10 CMP Media LLC http://destinationsite.com/c?c=341554.22175.0.36174.11 Copyright 2001 CMP Media LLC