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Why Network Management Your network is at the very heart of your company, and it's up to you to keep it running at peak performance, at all times. But if your company is like many Non IT companies, you simply don't have the time to manage your LAN or WAN the way you know you should. For companies gaining the best performance from their network is of utmost importance and downtime is unacceptable. With the ever-increasing demands on networks, companies need to get the most out of the bandwidth they have allocated. The wide availability of network resources accessible to employees has added complexity to the issue of the network utilization and has made the job of an IT manager even more difficult. Performance monitoring takes the guesswork out of effective networking. It enables network managers to view network traffic, identify applications running on the network, and monitor bandwidth usage. Companies need to be able to ensure that business-critical transactions have top priority over non-essential applications. Does the company need additional bandwidth or is the available bandwidth being misused? In most cases, the bandwidth is simply being misused; so acquiring more bandwidth is not always the best solution. It’s just a matter of effectively managing available bandwidth. Purchasing additional bandwidth results in higher recurring costs. It does not address the real problem: the need to control the network. In this environment, if the network is not managed properly, companies are at risk. Industry analysts have estimated that more than 40 percent of all customers who experience errors while visiting a Web site never return.
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