A network bandwidth analyzer can help network administrators identify network performance issues, troubleshoot service degradation and ensure productivity within the organization. Without access to a bandwidth analyzer, detecting and rectifying performance degradation issues can be a very time consuming and daunting task
In today’s modern networks, the available bandwidth to users on a typical internal network is quite large. But with bandwidth intensive applications and services growing day by day, network congestion can become a real issue. In best-effort networks, which are prevalent in smaller organization, the problem is even more pronounced as all users/applications/services must share the available bandwidth.
A network bandwidth analyzer can help to identify the potentially many factors that are causing your network congestion issues. These factors can include things such as the patterns of usage, types of data traversing the network, bandwidth consumption per application and non-work related traffic.
Network bandwidth analyzers are becoming an essential tool to identify the trend in a given network. Based on the utilization trend, a proper capacity planning exercise can be undertaken by the administrator. As well, various policies can be implemented and enforced based on the bandwidth analyzer’s results. (e.g. high volume data transfers can be deferred to off peak hours.)
Slow network performance can interfere with productivity in academic institutions or in the workplace and a network bandwidth analyzer can help troubleshoot existing issues or even prevent problems from occurring at all.
