NETSCOUT Case Studies European Bank Gains Visibility to Ensure Voice and Data Performance

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	European Bank Gains Visibility to Ensure Voice and Data Performance NETSCOUT

European Bank Gains Visibility to Ensure Voice and Data Performance

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Remote Asset Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The major issue facing the IT staff at this bank was protecting performance of key voice and banking application services from the data centers, across their WAN, and out to their branches where slowdowns and disruptions negatively impact their customers. Bank teller applications are expected to be delivered seamlessly to the banks, as they supported their customers’ timesensitive savings, checking, loan, and mortgage transactions. The bank also prioritized voice traffic, given the high volume of customer and internal calls generated every day. Performance degradations in any of these services could slow customer service and shake customer confidence and corporate reputation. The bank was a long-time user of NETSCOUT solutions, and with several network digital transformations occurring, they had the opportunity to evaluate the existing deployment and determine the best steps for visibility and service assurance going forward. In addition to the current needs, the IT team wanted to ensure as they continued with some other strategic initiatives (e.g., moving some services to a co-lo site, increasing their Citrix footprint, upgrading segments to 10 GB, and expanding their virtualized server adoption) that the service assurance solution they decided on today would provide them with single pane of glass views and analysis into the future. Read More
About Customer	This is a leading international commercial bank based in Europe that focuses on both corporate clients and private / small business customers. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of financial services, including retail banking leveraging a substantial branch network, innovative on-line banking, capital market products, and foreign trade and transactions. The bank services millions of private and small-business retail customers, more than 50,000 corporate clients worldwide, as well as 5 million on-line users with their on-line banking subsidiaries. To support this substantial customer base, the bank employes 40,000+ employees operating hundreds of branches across dozens of countries, along with facilities for their on-line banking subsidiaries. It is easy to see the importance of the underlying network and technology necessary to maintain the 24 x 7 application service needs of their global employee and customer base. Read More
Solution	The recent 10 GB network upgrade in their data center was carrying substantial amount of critical traffic from the branches to appropriate application servers and the Network Operations (NetOps) team wanted visibility to stay ahead of emerging issues. The cost-effective NETSCOUT Qualified InfiniStreamNG Software appliance was going to enable visibility into both their business data applications and their network voice traffic. The NetOps and Voice teams have collaborated to set up nGeniusONE workspaces to display key VoIP traffic metrics, including packet loss, jitter, latency, and degraded MOS. Members of the Voice team have privileges to review the metrics in nGeniusONE and when issues are uncovered, they work with NetOps to troubleshoot, using contextual workflows to pinpoint the source of the issue along the call path. This is achieving quick resolution of issues so voice calls to the branches and to customers are of the highest quality. To address the blind spot in their virtualized servers, the bank has also deployed the vSTREAM virtual appliances on their KVM hypervisors to provide much-needed visibility into the east-west application traffic flows. The NetOps team is now better equipped to rollout new services in this environment, using the enhanced NETSCOUT solution to monitor performance and troubleshoot issues that may arise. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Remote Asset Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The major issue facing the IT staff at this bank was protecting performance of key voice and banking application services from the data centers, across their WAN, and out to their branches where slowdowns and disruptions negatively impact their customers. Bank teller applications are expected to be delivered seamlessly to the banks, as they supported their customers’ timesensitive savings, checking, loan, and mortgage transactions. The bank also prioritized voice traffic, given the high volume of customer and internal calls generated every day. Performance degradations in any of these services could slow customer service and shake customer confidence and corporate reputation. The bank was a long-time user of NETSCOUT solutions, and with several network digital transformations occurring, they had the opportunity to evaluate the existing deployment and determine the best steps for visibility and service assurance going forward. In addition to the current needs, the IT team wanted to ensure as they continued with some other strategic initiatives (e.g., moving some services to a co-lo site, increasing their Citrix footprint, upgrading segments to 10 GB, and expanding their virtualized server adoption) that the service assurance solution they decided on today would provide them with single pane of glass views and analysis into the future.

About Customer

This is a leading international commercial bank based in Europe that focuses on both corporate clients and private / small business customers. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of financial services, including retail banking leveraging a substantial branch network, innovative on-line banking, capital market products, and foreign trade and transactions. The bank services millions of private and small-business retail customers, more than 50,000 corporate clients worldwide, as well as 5 million on-line users with their on-line banking subsidiaries. To support this substantial customer base, the bank employes 40,000+ employees operating hundreds of branches across dozens of countries, along with facilities for their on-line banking subsidiaries. It is easy to see the importance of the underlying network and technology necessary to maintain the 24 x 7 application service needs of their global employee and customer base.

Solution

The recent 10 GB network upgrade in their data center was carrying substantial amount of critical traffic from the branches to appropriate application servers and the Network Operations (NetOps) team wanted visibility to stay ahead of emerging issues. The cost-effective NETSCOUT Qualified InfiniStreamNG Software appliance was going to enable visibility into both their business data applications and their network voice traffic. The NetOps and Voice teams have collaborated to set up nGeniusONE workspaces to display key VoIP traffic metrics, including packet loss, jitter, latency, and degraded MOS. Members of the Voice team have privileges to review the metrics in nGeniusONE and when issues are uncovered, they work with NetOps to troubleshoot, using contextual workflows to pinpoint the source of the issue along the call path. This is achieving quick resolution of issues so voice calls to the branches and to customers are of the highest quality. To address the blind spot in their virtualized servers, the bank has also deployed the vSTREAM virtual appliances on their KVM hypervisors to provide much-needed visibility into the east-west application traffic flows. The NetOps team is now better equipped to rollout new services in this environment, using the enhanced NETSCOUT solution to monitor performance and troubleshoot issues that may arise.

Impact #1	Cost-effective visibility for banking and voice applications as well as virtualized environments
Impact #2	Successful collaboration between netops and voice teams
Impact #3	Enhanced performance for the bank's user community

Impact #1

Cost-effective visibility for banking and voice applications as well as virtualized environments

Impact #2

Successful collaboration between netops and voice teams

Impact #3

Enhanced performance for the bank's user community

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European Bank Gains Visibility to Ensure Voice and Data Performance

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