GenieNRM

As attacks and network abuses increase colleges face tough, expensive challenges in not only keeping intruders out, but also troubleshooting and eliminating the internal source of problems.

Challenges of Network Administrators of Campuses

Network Traffic Analysis	Network Security Diagnose	Network Traffic Control
Lack of timely and accurate info from campus-wide, geographically distributed sources	Lack of internal security defense capability (to dense threats initiated inside the campus networks)	Lack of L7 application distribution and user role knowledge to build effective campus network usage policies
Lack of automatic intelligence for cohesive network analysis crossing departments and campus areas (need to know who’s accessing/talking to whom)	Lack of detection capability for zero-day threat, especially for DoS/ DDoS, worms, flood and scanning attacks (need to wait for signature patches)	Lack of policy granularity to enforce control aligning university strategies (e.g. limit P2P music-sharing without compromising on resources needed for teaching and research)
Lack of real-time and historical network health reporting providing high-level management and network planning views (need trending, statistics)	Lack of detailed analysis of detected events (need further info to fortify campus security policies)	Lack of control options for different goals (abuse prevention, QoS guarantee, security protection, etc.)
Lack of effective troubleshooting capability for ongoing problems or historical forensics diagnoses	Lack of sophisticated notification mechanisms (alerts generated from distributed security devices cause alert flood)	Lack of L7-traffic/user-role information exportation capability for better integrated analysis and reporting

GenieNRM offers a total solution, which helps to minimize down-time of campus networks by fortifying their security protection perimeter as well as internally, whilst providing a effective troubleshooting tool. It also controls Internet traffic to increase students’ and educators’ productive use of network resources and ensures service quality of research- or work- related applications by reducing their bandwidth contention with ‘entertainment content.

Solution benefits

24 x 7 Enterprise-wide Network Traffic Monitoring - Built to meet the demands of the largest campus networks, GenieNRM provides a comprehensive, real time understanding of activity across the entire network. Campus network managers will be equipped with the capability to conduct long-term monitoring, drilled-sown Top-N analysis and focused analysis on critical network spots, giving them a holistic view of the campus-wide network, anywhere, anytime.
Troubleshooting and Capacity Planning - Instead of guesswork, network administrators can identify and locate the source of the network problems precisely and rapidly via GenieNRM’s flexible troubleshooting function. With an abundant selection of traffic statistic and trending reports, administrators are able to make just-in-time investment decisions to plan network bandwidth deployment before congestion taken place.
Performance Protection & Investment Optimization - GenieNRM’s solution enables a campus to implement quality of service (QoS) on Internet connection for its users. It enables network administrators to throttle non-academic-relevant, high bandwidth consumers such as P2P-music-sharing, online gaming, without impacting research- or work-related network services. It can also guarantee bandwidth for specific user groups such as professor, administration and laboratory. Sufficient available bandwidth is thus guaranteed for research purposes only.
Automatic, Adaptive, Campus-wide Threat Detection - Augmenting existing perimeter security devices, GenieNRM provides an internal security protection solution to guard the entire campus networks. The built-in dynamic traffic learning and analysis intelligence helps to detect network threats from each segment of the networks in the zero-day without waiting for signature updates.
Security Threat Mitigation - Via GenieATM’s intelligent campus-wide anomaly detection and GenieNPC’s granular traffic control capability, detected security threats in the campus networks can be eliminated in real-time without disrupting the network services. Using GenieATM’s unique real-time/ historical troubleshooting facility, network managers can deploy effective counter-measures to protect the network performance and also refine the campus network security policies.
Painless Deployment and Easy Management - The layered-administration design of GenieNRM solutions allows network managers to easily delegate a variety of management tasks to different members of the team with varying scopes of responsibilities. Remote manageability and friendly Web-based GUI makes GenieNRM’s solution perfectly meeting the needs of campus network traffic management.

Figure. Campus Deployment: abundant data source, cohesive management

GenieNRM Products for Campus Solutions

GenieATM 6100, 6200, 6300 - A range of different GenieATM series products, 6100, 6200 and 6300, are available for different scales of networked campus.
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GenieNPC 5800 TM & GenieNPC 5100 AP - The GenieNPC 5800 Traffic Manager and GenieNPC 5100 Application Processor products enable campuses to implement quality of service on Internet connection. It throttles network abuses and guarantee bandwidth for academic relevant usage. Campus networks will be better exploited for research purposes.
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