NETSCOUT Case Studies Worldwide Technology Leader Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Capacity Planning of Complex Global Network

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Worldwide Technology Leader Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Capacity Planning of Complex Global Network

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Technology Category	Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Logistics & Transportation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	The company was facing bandwidth issues across its extensive global network, impacting user experience and potentially threatening business activities. With the construction of a new global headquarters and the introduction of new services, the IT team needed to ensure the network could handle the demands of technology development, manufacturing, cloud services, and retail sales and service. The wide area network (WAN) operations team needed visibility into the specific business services in use and the QoS classes assigned between data centers, headquarters, retail locations and manufacturing areas in order to achieve more effective capacity planning and respond more quickly to network changes. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a worldwide technology leader with an expansive global network that includes campuses, retail stores, data centers, and remote offices around the world. As an iconic company, countless employees and customers rely on their industry-leading technology products and innovative services for both personal and business use on a daily basis. The company's network spans multiple campuses, data centers, retail stores and remote offices worldwide, and is relied upon by retail customers and employees around the globe. Read More
Solution	To address the project planning activities and occasional bandwidth issues across the highly distributed organization, the company turned to NETSCOUT to gain an accurate understanding of WAN capacity and bandwidth needs. TruView Central Enterprise, TruView Packet Appliances, and TruView Flow were deployed across the company’s network environment, providing much needed visibility into traffic utilization coming into and out of both headquarters and data centers from the remote offices and retail stores. The NETSCOUT solution provided the intelligence needed for more effective, evidence-based capacity planning and bandwidth management. The solution also enabled IT to quickly respond to network changes that might impact users of mission critical, revenue impacting services. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Logistics & Transportation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

The company was facing bandwidth issues across its extensive global network, impacting user experience and potentially threatening business activities. With the construction of a new global headquarters and the introduction of new services, the IT team needed to ensure the network could handle the demands of technology development, manufacturing, cloud services, and retail sales and service. The wide area network (WAN) operations team needed visibility into the specific business services in use and the QoS classes assigned between data centers, headquarters, retail locations and manufacturing areas in order to achieve more effective capacity planning and respond more quickly to network changes.

About Customer

The customer is a worldwide technology leader with an expansive global network that includes campuses, retail stores, data centers, and remote offices around the world. As an iconic company, countless employees and customers rely on their industry-leading technology products and innovative services for both personal and business use on a daily basis. The company's network spans multiple campuses, data centers, retail stores and remote offices worldwide, and is relied upon by retail customers and employees around the globe.

Solution

To address the project planning activities and occasional bandwidth issues across the highly distributed organization, the company turned to NETSCOUT to gain an accurate understanding of WAN capacity and bandwidth needs. TruView Central Enterprise, TruView Packet Appliances, and TruView Flow were deployed across the company’s network environment, providing much needed visibility into traffic utilization coming into and out of both headquarters and data centers from the remote offices and retail stores. The NETSCOUT solution provided the intelligence needed for more effective, evidence-based capacity planning and bandwidth management. The solution also enabled IT to quickly respond to network changes that might impact users of mission critical, revenue impacting services.

Impact #1	NETSCOUT has enabled the technology company to ensure that its customers and employees enjoy the highest quality user experience when relying on the company’s network by reducing or eliminating congestion issues.
Impact #2	The solution has delivered critically important visibility, analysis and actionable intelligence that allows for better, more accurate planning models for network design engineering with trended evidence based on actual corporate use.
Impact #3	The NETSCOUT solutions are providing bandwidth and capacity consumption analysis and reports that are also fostering intelligent communications within the WAN operations group and other members of the IT staff which has improved team collaboration.

Impact #1

NETSCOUT has enabled the technology company to ensure that its customers and employees enjoy the highest quality user experience when relying on the company’s network by reducing or eliminating congestion issues.

Impact #2

The solution has delivered critically important visibility, analysis and actionable intelligence that allows for better, more accurate planning models for network design engineering with trended evidence based on actual corporate use.

Impact #3

The NETSCOUT solutions are providing bandwidth and capacity consumption analysis and reports that are also fostering intelligent communications within the WAN operations group and other members of the IT staff which has improved team collaboration.

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Worldwide Technology Leader Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Capacity Planning of Complex Global Network

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