Continuous Packet Capture

nGenius® InfiniStream®
Continuous packet capture functionality provides unparalleled retrospective analysis, which is critical for solving today’s most difficult modern IP network problems.

Application degradations and subtle intermittent problems can have a severe impact on business revenue. Having a fast and efficient means of analyzing packet/flow data is critical to resolve network performance issues and requires real-time solutions and post-event investigation to prevent further occurrences and business-impacting service interruptions.

The nGenius InfiniStream is the combination of two industry leading continuous capture solutions: nGenius AFMon and Sniffer InfiniStream. NetScout’s nGenius InfiniStream provides the crucial packet-level details, which can only be seen by monitoring the network links, to NetScout’s nGenius Performance Manager, nGenius K2 and Sniffer Intelligence offerings. This level of detail ensures system users that the data needed to combat today’s toughest network issues will be available when needed, minimizing mean time to resolution.

The nGenius InfiniStream, when combined with NetScout analysis and reporting solutions, provides the critical KPI-to-Flow-to-Packet top-down workflow needed to quickly and efficiently detect, diagnose and verify the resolution of elusive and intermittent IT service problems. NetScout’s real-time analysis and packet recording minimizes mean time to resolution by:

Eliminating the need to sift through numerous packet trace files to find specific network or link behavior
Alleviating the need to wait for an issue to reoccur by utilizing continuous packet capture and playback to view the packets associated with an issue
Mining the recorded data in an efficient, flexible and logical methodology to reveal issues much faster and meet the challenges of the modern IP network.
Delivering the post-event forensic analysis necessary to diagnose problems quickly and minimize the impact on the end user.