Enterprises require an integrated approach to end-user experience monitoring and application performance management. ACE Live delivers an end-to-end solution that spans monitoring, measurement, and detection of violations, and then bridges seamlessly into uncovering the root-cause of application performance problems.

ACE Live:

• Provides complete visibility of all transactions and users across the enterprise
• Includes detailed real-time and historical information about performance, utilization, route quality, ISP performance, and end-user response times
• Supports complex network infrastructures and technologies
• Automatically summarizes data according to applications and user-defined business groups (e.g., departments, campuses, etc.), so that results are presented in a way that is meaningful to the business
• Monitors actual network flows – all your traffic, all the time – through passive Ethernet connections to a spanning port or tap

ACE Live uniquely features rapid, integrated and detailed transaction-level troubleshooting with OPNET’s ACE Analyst. ACE Analyst’s industry-leading analytics embed expert knowledge about network protocols and application behavior as seen from a network perspective, providing a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end performance of networked applications. With software and hardware-based appliances, ACE Live enables both mid-size companies and global enterprises to proactively detect response time problems for faster diagnosis and resolution, thereby minimizing business impact.

Leverage extensive coverage across your entire network with non-intrusive hardware and software ACE Live appliances.

 

Key Features

• Agentless deployment
• 24x7 appliance-based application performance monitoring
• Rapid, non-intrusive installation via a SPAN or mirror port or tap - often in less than an hour
• Automatic application discovery and classification by user-defined application and business groups
• Unique point-and-click guided work flows for numerous common management tasks
• Advanced live and historical analysis accurately determines components of delay, top-talkers, trends, and reports on abnormal behaviors
• Seamless drill-down to ACE Analyst for rapid, integrated troubleshooting
• Centralized probe management, including data aggregation and consolidation
• Executive-level business reporting and web-based dashboards
• Real-time VoIP performance management for voice and data converged networks
• NetFlow data collection

Quantify end-user response time by components such as payload transfer time, network latency, and retransmission delay.

Easily diagnose application and network problems with more than 20 point-and-click guided workflows

ACE Live Modules

NetFlow Monitoring – Combines real-time end-user response data and utilization metrics in a unique unified view and in a single appliance.

Utilize the NetFlow module to:

• Extend visibility into network capacity including branch-office-to-branch-office traffic
• Visualize and report on live response time data and NetFlow utilization metrics in a single, unified view via powerful web-based dashboards
• Identify and report on key traffic and bandwidth metrics including top-talkers and bandwidth hogs by leveraging NetFlow data

VoIP Performance Monitoring – Embeds real-time, speech quality analysis to easily monitor and troubleshoot voice call quality. 

Utilize the VoIP Monitoring module to:

• Monitor and troubleshoot call quality from any VoIP vendor
• Isolate percentage contribution of loss, jitter, codec, delay, signal level, noise level, echo, and latency to a MOS score for a true picture of the end user’s experience
• View the overall network health and VoIP performance in a business-context in order to prioritize problem resolution and set meaningful SLAs