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Network Capacity Planning

Network Capacity Planning

Without adequate network modeling and WAN emulator capabilities, network teams will never be able to strategically and pro-actively manage their environments – and will instead spend all their time fighting fires and fixing problems that could have been prevented with a little due diligence.

  • Can you be sure that new infrastructure will pay off in better performance?
  • Will more bandwidth actually solve your performance issues?
  • Is your infrastructure vendor selection aligned with business needs?

It used to be all about adding more bandwidth

But today, network managers have to choose between QoS, WAN acceleration, caching, compression, WAFS, and MPLS solutions from many different vendors making many different claims. To make matters worse, new applications and services are being rolled out across the network with greater frequency – and with little (if any) advance consultation with the network team.

Shunra VE addresses these pressing management issues with virtual network technology that delivers a full range of pre-production testing and emulation capabilities. Armed with this technology, network managers can gain a wide range of critical benefits, including:

  • Confident infrastructure investment decisions.With a virtual network, you can easily analyze the potential gains from alternative infrastructure investments. You can also make your own highly insightful comparison between different vendors’ solutions. For example, by simply connecting a WAN acceleration device to Shunra VE, you can see first-hand exactly how it will impact performance at your remote offices.
  • Confident change control.With Shunra VE, you can fully validate the production-readiness of any new or updated services and applications. Whether you're upgrading a CRM application or rolling out LDAP, your virtual testing environment will enable you to predict exactly what kind of performance you can expect across all your remote sites and data centers. If you spot a performance bottleneck, you can address it before your production roll-out – instead of after things have already hit the fan.
  • Confident deployment of VoIP and rich media.With Shunra VE, you can be 100% confident that your network is VoIP-ready and/or pinpoint exactly where you need to shore up your infrastructure. In fact, you can accurately model your network and attach phones to your virtual model so that you can hear for yourself exactly how calls will sound once you roll out VoIP into production.
  • Confident application-centric capacity planning.Want to know if more bandwidth will solve your application performance problem? With Shunra VE, you can test your hypothesis by simply turning up the "bandwidth knob" inside your virtual network. That way, you can avoid spending money on capacity that you don't really need.

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