NetRule, A Complete Modeling Environment

NetRule has three license offerings under NetRule® 7.0 :

1. Single User
2. Concurrent User
3. NetRule Viewer

NetRule in a Nutshell:

• NetRule is a breakthrough modeling environment for large networks. It's speed in predicting network performance results from powerful use of analytical methods. NetRule's scope of use extends beyond large network designing and planning to projects such as
  • application rollout planning on Enterprise networks
  • pre-sales benefit and impact presentations
  • PVC design on large ATM backbones.

  Just recently, a modeler in the aerospace industry said, "The value of NetRule to our project is the ability to implement the true network topology with full-scale end-to-end traffic modeling where large complex models can be constructed in a week and run in minutes."

  NetRule offers modelers the unique capability to quickly obtain latency predictions in addition to utilization predictions. The modeler can obtain predictions in network delay and in server and user delays. NetRule's multi-tier job structure provides round-trip times for complex transactions involving one or more servers. Additionally, using NetRule, a modeler can easily identify how to best make network changes in compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Check 21 regulations, and other performance and cost requirements.

• NetRule is an information generating tool for making decisions about network mangement and changes. You can readily simulate and predict capacity loads, user delays, and failures in anticipation of changes such as application rollouts. NetRule can be used for monitoring networks by loading traffic snapshots, but it is not a real-time data collecting program.
• NetRule can model changes in message traffic over circuits and server workload, and provide predictions, almost immediately, how the network will perform.
• NetRule generates reports, diagrams, graphs, and traffic animations.
• NetRule can be used to automatically draw networks and visualize proposed changes.
• NetRule imports network topology and traffic data from other network management and discovery tools. It directly imports .cap binary files for Ethernet packets. Aggregated MIB data from routers can be imported, as well as output from other measurement means as long as the data can be dumped into ASCII files. NetRule can import multiple files, even a directory of files, as a single import.
• NetRule provides easy exporting of your network inventory, protocols, and the calculated results.
• NetRule can import from and export to other competing modeling and simulation tools.
• NetRule is ideal for exploring alternative network designs and pretesting changes in the early planning and design stage, making your management process more effective and efficient.
• NetRule provides geo-spatial mapping functions, including automatic propagation calculations for circuits on a map. You can import devices with their latitude and longitude coordinates for automatic placement on your map. The mapping features include zooming and centering.

NetRule helps you:

• Predict network performance for:
  • Application rollouts
  • Server consolidation
  • Network upgrades
  • New technology & architectures
  • Service Level Agreement
• Plan bandwidth requirements
  • Broadcasts, MultiCasts,
  • Videoconferencing
  • Voice over IP, ATM, etc.
• Head off potential overloads to a network
• Plan around component failures
• Convince others of the value of your network solution
• Develop a disciplined approach that advances the practice of the network capacity and performance planning