Ethernet IT managers require visibility into and control over the rapidly growing number of applications running across the Wide Area Network (WAN) as well as the Local Area Network (LAN). The combination of Ethernet’s low cost and its ease of use has made it the de facto standard for LAN-based communications. With the proliferation of broadband Ethernet access to remote sites via Business DSL/Cable, management of multiple access type environments has become increasingly challenging. These remotes sites pose a potential application and network management nightmare. This is due to access application technologies such as IPSec VPNs, compression and wireless. Such technologies significantly reduce IT managers’ visibility into users accessing such widely-deployed, head-office systems as e-mail services as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.  Datasheets 10/100/1000 Ethernet ASE 10/100 Ethernet In-line ASE 10/100 Ethernet In-line ASE LE    Demo See how Visual UpTime Select delivers LAN visibility    Media Read the sneak preview of the Visual UpTime Select Ethernet ASE Suite in Network Computing   IT Managers’ Challenges Does encrypted traffic in your network limit your management capabilities? What applications are running on your network? Will my existing network support Voice over IP (VoIP)? Are unauthorized applications consuming valuable bandwidth? How’s the transition to MPLS going? Visual UpTime Select Ethernet ASE Suite With the introduction of Visual Networks’ Ethernet Analysis Service Element (ASE) Suite, enterprises can now utilize the same set of rich network and application performance management capabilities for applications in the LAN that they’ve traditionally leveraged for WAN access. Whether your network is Frame Relay, ATM, IP or Business DSL/Cable, Visual’s family of Ethernet appliances can meet your organization’s IT needs. These Ethernet appliances provide visibility into environments regardless of encryption or compression at head-end or remote sites, giving IT managers complete visibility into performance-sensitive technologies like VoIP. A modular solution, Visual UpTime Select provides in-depth, real-time and historical visibility into network performance and the availability of critical applications. Visual Networks’ Ethernet appliances provide granular, site-to-site performance information for all the applications traversing our network.   –L. Wyman Cook, manager of technical services, Southeastern Freight Lines   Visual UpTime Select delivers: Real-time and historical views into application and network performance Troubleshooting of real-time and intermittent problems Detailed visibility of VPN tunnels down to individual application flows Auto-discovery of client-to-client, client-to-server and server-to-server application flows and individual conversation pairs in the LAN or across the WAN Class of Service (CoS) visibility Synthesis of data into actionable information via a centralized server LAN Visibility With Visual UpTime Select, place Ethernet ASEs in LANs throughout your network environment to gain in-depth, real-time and historical visibility into application performance. The Ethernet ASE family's flexible deployment options allow for instrumentation of the WAN from the LAN side of the CER (Customer Edge Router). Actionable Intelligence While real-time monitoring takes place, Visual UpTime Select archives network, server and application performance data. This architecture allows IT managers to sectionalize faults rapidly - they can call the right vendor the first time and avoid costly downtime due to finger pointing between service providers and equipment vendors. Simple-to-use screens, such as application flow verification and server performance, as well Visual's granular Layer 1 - 2 visibility, are hallmarks of the solution. The architecture enables you to upgrade existing remote sites by introducing additional software functionality where and when it is needed.