SCENARIO
Network performance and user experience are critical aspects of your business. It is vital to understand customers’ perception of network, website, application, and Wi-Fi services. New applications introduce potential network bottlenecks that must be quickly identified and corrected. Not knowing impacts your revenue stream.
Hawkeye provides you with the insight you need to manage your network, web, application, and Wi-Fi performance.
IXIA SOLUTION
Hawkeye is an active monitoring platform for live networks and field use. Its core capability is synthetic traffic generation. Hawkeye is based on an open framework for integration with operation support system (OSS)/element management system (EMS) and IT environments. It can be used in physical on-premises, public cloud, and virtual data center environments.
Hawkeye offers a single Web-based interface, which scales to monitor hundreds of endpoints anywhere in the world. Endpoints sit at remote sites (e.g., branch office or home) and at a data center, headquarter, or private or public cloud. Endpoints are available in both hardware and software formats and are easy to install. They generate synthetic traffic to inject into and receive from the live network, reproducing real users traffic patterns. The synthetic traffic is processed for objective quality metrics and use for insights. Hawkeye continually measures network performance and service status.
Hawkeye makes measurement simple with the largest application library in the industry; this allows users to generate many kinds of synthetic traffic to proactively monitor their live networks. With the application library, you can:
• Ensure the QoE for your users. Emulate voice and video traffic, covering services like standard VoIP, unified communications (e.g., Skype for Business), or other video conferencing.
• Make sure your users can access businesscritical applications, such as Office 365, YouTube, Dropbox, and more.
• Qualify and maintain network SLAs with diagnostic tools for IP Transport testing, and assess L3 network performance indicators (loss, jitter, delay).
• Diagnose network routing and resolution: verify DNS server access and response time, discover routes between endpoint locations and fast track trouble shooting.
• Qualify the real capacity of your circuits; test TCP and UDP traffic throughput over wired or wireless connections.
If there is an issue, Hawkeye helps you identify it, quantify it, and ultimately resolve it—before your customers experience it.