Real-Time Traffic Intelligence is the ability to protect and manage large IP networks by analyzing traffic behavior for a deeper understanding of the networks' health and safety.

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Challenges

Today’s service providers and government organizations face a diverse set of challenges in keeping their networks healthy while ensuring compliance with government mandates.

These organizations have become targets for increasingly complex and destructive attacks as well as targets for non-malicious, yet unwanted traffic such as spam. Beyond the risk of network issues, terrorists and criminals are utilizing IP services to communicate and coordinate, leading to a variety of government mandates. With new services, new attacks and new behaviors becoming a regular part of daily network operations, monitoring and protection solutions need to be dynamic and adaptable or they risk becoming obsolete before being deployed.

Historically, service providers and government organizations have taken a siloed approach to monitoring and managing their networks, installing applications incrementally to address specific needs and to solved specific problems. This approach led to a dispersion of information across many products that do not interact with each other and further required a large operational investment to manage and maintain.

Solution

Given this “perfect storm” of issues, service providers and government organizations require tools that make managing and protecting complex networks possible. Today's more forward-looking organizations are beginning to move toward a more holistic and cost-effective approach by utilizing Real-Time Traffic Intelligence systems. These next generation systems provide the knowledge necessary to protect and manage large, diverse and widely distributed networks.

• Monitoring traffic from the network layer through the application layer from many sources to discover abnormalities and threats

• Creating actionable knowledge by finding unique traffic patterns and utilizing the innovative algorithms and scalable system correlation capabilities

• Analyzing traffic at macro and micro levels by targeting specific or aggregate traffic and further providing complete forensic analysis of traffic and subsequently provide insight to increase confidence in policy setting

• Taking informed mitigation actions based on business and operational policies to prevent anomalous traffic from propogating through the network
  

Benefits

A Real-Time Traffic Intelligence system offers the following benefits:

• Solves complex, dynamic problems not seen or solved by existing siloed solutions

• System approach provides holistic traffic visibility not possible with an appliance or stovepipe solution

• Innovative algorithms and analysis tools create new knowledge to make better decisions (strategic and operational)

• Flexible architecture enables dynamic evolution