IT INITIATIVES

WAN Management

Mazu Profiler™ augments your WAN management initiatives by helping ensure that you:

• Deploy WAN optimization and acceleration technologies for maximum effect
• Maximize the savings you get from your WAN optimization efforts
• Maintain visibility into the WAN post-optimization
• Accurately quantify the bandwidth savings

How Mazu Profiler Helps

Identify Optimization Candidates
Mazu Profiler helps you identify the best optimization candidates:

• Find highly utilized links with traffic that can be optimized
• Determine when links won't benefit from optimization (e.g. those with high proportion of UDP traffic)
• Determine if bandwidth is being consumed by non-business applications

Provide Visibility Across the WAN
One tradeoff companies find they have to make is between performance and visibility. The performance and availability improvements that WAN optimization delivers is often accompanied by reduced visibility that IT personnel have into the network. Mazu Profiler provides visibility across the WAN post-optimization through dashboards and report by application, site, link, or user.

Quantify Optimization Benefits
Mazu Profiler can help you prove and quantify the benefits of WAN optimization and acceleration at a granular level including:

• By application
• By user
• For a single site
• Site-to-site
• Across the entire WAN

Mazu Profiler in Action

The WAN at an international news organization was saturated at 60-70 percent and the company was considering whether the link needed to be upgraded. They used Mazu Profiler to identify what kind of traffic was traversing the link and discovered that 30 percent was unauthorized peer-to-peer applications. They eliminated all peer-to-peer traffic, implemented a rule-based event to detect future non-business applications, and avoided a costly WAN upgrade.

For more stories on how Mazu Profiler helps WAN optimization and acceleration initiatives, download Mazu in Action: Solving Real Problems for Real Customers.