GenieNRM

Companies strive to provide maximum value for their customers through delivering high quality products at competitive prices with an as low as possible time-to-market turnaround, only made possible through the running of a lean, efficient, information sharing, value chain. Such demanding internal infrastructure requirements today are only made possible through operation of intelligent, real-time business critical services, with network connectivity forming the backbone of the enterprise.

While network connectivity can improve operational efficiency and productivity, it also introduces a plethora of challenges in IT management and network outage risks. Enterprises with geographically distributed offices face additional issues, such as traffic management which traditional network management systems fail to address adequately.

Challenges of Network Administrators of Telecom/SP

Network Traffic Analysis	Network Security Diagnose	Network Traffic Control
Lack of timely and accurate info from all organizational functions and geographically distributed sources (only discrete device-/ link- based information)	Lack of internal security defense capability (perimeter security devices only protect network from external threats)	Lack of L7 application distribution and user role knowledge to build effective traffic usage policies
Lack of automatic intelligence for cohesive, insightful network analysis crossing departments, and business units (only traffic volume, utilization statistics of individual links and segments)	Lack of detection capability for zero-day threat, especially for DoS/ DDoS, worms, flood and scanning attacks (need to wait for signature patches or no way to detect at all)	Lack of policy granularity for administrators to enforce control policies aligning the business strategies
Lack of real-time and historical network health reporting capabilities providing high-level management views	Lack of detailed analysis of detected events (need further info to fortify security policies)	Lack of control options for different goals (abuse prevention, QoS guarantee, security protection, etc.)
Lack of effective troubleshooting capability for real-time 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 is designed to minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprises’ network infrastructure and services – reduce investment costs by optimizing network utilization for business-critical applications and lowering management and security protection costs by automatic analysis intelligence.

Solution benefits

24 x 7 Enterprise-wide Network Traffic Monitoring - Built to meet the demands of the largest enterprise networks, GenieNRM provides a comprehensive, real time understanding of activity across the entire network. The capability to conduct long-term monitoring, drilled-sown Top-N analysis and focused analysis on critical network spot, gives enterprise network managers a holistic view of the enterprise-wide network, anywhere, anytime.
Automatic, Customizable Traffic Analysis Reporting - With an abundant selection of traffic analysis reports of GenieNRM solutions, MIS staff can now fulfill reporting tasks in few clicks. Its flexibility in analysis reporting allows MIS staff to respond to high-level management demands instantly.
Decision Support in Capacity Planning - Instead of guesswork, network administrators can optimize their network planning by utilizing practical traffic information such as trending traffic statistics. Managers are then able to make just-in-time investment decisions to plan network bandwidth deployment before a congestion taken place.
Visibility for Usage Analysis & Cost Analysis - Displays distribution and cross analysis of user behavior and up-to-L7 application traffic of the complex enterprise network environments. The detailed traffic information can help managers to perform Business-Unit based cost analysis and usage accounting.
Automatic, Adaptive, Enterprise-wide Threat Detection - Augmenting existing perimeter security devices, GenieNRM provides an internal security protection solution to guard the entire enterprise 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 the signature updates.
Performance Protection & Investment Optimization - Enterprises can implement quality of service on Internet connection and VPN. It enables network managers to throttle high bandwidth consumers such as P2P applications and optimizing performance of business-critical applications such as web, mail, ERP and VoIP. Business efficiency and employ productivity can hence be improved.
Security Threat Mitigation - Via GenieATM’s intelligent enterprise-wide anomaly detection and GenieNPC’s granular traffic control capability, detected security threats in the enterprise networks can be eliminated in real-time without disrupting the business. 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 enterprise 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, friendly Web-based GUI and support of multiple languages makes GenieNRM’s solution meeting global-scale enterprise traffic managements’ needs perfectly.

Figure. Enterprise Deployment: abundant data source, cohesive management

GenieNRM Products for Telecom/SP Solutions

GenieATM 6200- The GenieATM 6200 series system consists of controller and the collector functionalities in a single appliance. The system collects a variety of traffic information from multiple data sources, classify, aggregate, and then monitor the traffic health and detect the potential threats. The system also supports real-time GUI data monitor, analysis reports, anomaly console, troubleshooting utility, historical examination and system configuration. With superior system capacity and performance provides it meets the demanding and challenging needs of large networked enterprises.

Success Story
GenieATM Helps LNEPC Address Network Attacking Threats Effectively
The LNEPC (LiaoNing Electric Power Corporation) Information Network was planed and constructed since the end of 1997, and it has always been the pioneer in the arena of information technology infrastructure among the national state-owned large and middle enterprises ever since. At the present, the LNEPC information network had completed the cross-provincial, three-layered network architecture – backbone network, city territory network, and WAN........(more)

MIS’s Challenges to Manage the Global-Scale Networks of ASUS
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