Retrospective Network Analysis

Keeping path with the growth of business sizes and dependency on network, network structure complexity and network performance demand increase dramatically. Using network analysis tools to decrease network problem resolution time becomes one of the most important factors that network administrators to consider. In enterprise networks, especially those highly dependent on networks, minutes - even seconds - of downtime will quickly result into thousands of dollars lost. For network administrators of these networks, to recreate, analyze and troubleshoot network issues is a hard and time-consuming project, not to mention the issues happens occasionally. Fast retrospective troubleshooting and analyzing historical network issues on mission-critical network links is highly required more than ever.

Our Solution

Colasoft nChronos, a retrospective network traffic analysis product, enables networking and IT professionals to collect and save up to days, weeks' worth of packet-level network data, and browse retrospectively backwards with the simply time-based navigation to specific time period in the past to evaluation network performance, inspect security issues and analyze into network issues, such as network failure, slow network and attack, etc.

How It Works

Traditional network analyzers capture the packets and analyze down to the packet level. While they are just tools that a professional will use when a network problem has arose already, and he needs to look into what is happening now when he gets to the network. But he is unable to get the original packets when the network issue happens, and not to mention the traffic before it happens. This situation would spend him hours of guesswork, and additional hours to prove them one after another. Or some network issues would be untraceable for the lack of evidence.

For enterprise level, including mid-sized organization, network, they are useful as well. But it's more effective to have the ability to have something watch and film the network continuously without stoppage. You could think Colasoft nChronos as a CCTV system for networks, it acts like a 24/7 surveillance camera, filming every packet on the network, analyzing and saving them to hard disks or RAID. When you need to browse backwards for a retrospective analysis, you just need to specify a point of time and you get network analysis results of that time period instantly.

Sometimes you still need to go down to packet level network analysis. Colasoft nChronos enables you to retrieve the packets from a Colasoft nChronos server and analyze them in build-in powerful Colasoft nChronos Analyzer, the customized Colasoft Capsa network analyzer (a portable and in-depth network analyzer).

Benefits

• Improved efficiency to analyze retrospectively periodical and occasional network issues, etc.
• Ability to store network data for weeks, even for months, and browse backwards historical network traffic of any time period in the massive storage
• Decreased time and efforts required to reconstruct network issue scenarios
• Improved customer and employee satisfaction
• Ability to provide sufficient evidence for network performance and security breach, etc.

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