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Extreme Networks Introduces Purview™, Delivering Breakthrough Network-Powered
February 2014 by Marc Jacob
Extreme Networks® introduced Purview, a first-of-its-kind solution built on patented ASIC technology. Purview provides visibility into application use across the network, helping organizations in four ways: improving the experience of connected users; enhancing organizations understanding of user engagement; optimizing application performance; protecting against malicious or unapproved system use. By using Purview, organizations are better able to deliver significant improvements to their critical technology assets.
In today’s highly connected, and overly stimulated world, it is exceedingly difficult to measure user engagement, improve the mobile and social user experience, and ensure the integrity of mission critical networks. Purview uniquely addresses these complex requirements by integrating with network data that carries context of users, devices, locations and applications in use. Purview captures network data and then aggregates, analyzes, correlates, characterizes, and finally reports; providing unprecedented insight into how and why systems and users perform. Purview leverages breakthrough technology to bridge the gap between IT network management, security, and business intelligence through a single integrated view. Purview helps organizations improve user experience, while meeting the growing needs of network users, and improving network performance. The benefits of Purview can be realized with Extreme Networks solutions, or networks from any other Ethernet switching vendor.
Purview is capable of collecting, analyzing and reporting application data from the entire network, including wired and wireless devices and core/data centers.
Key Facts
? Purview provides three sets of unique benefits:
o Business analytics – Measure and report adoption, usage and responsiveness of applications.
o IT network management – Accelerate troubleshooting through measurement and reporting of application and network performance, and optimize network design to improve user experience.
o Network security – Detect use of unapproved and malicious applications to ensure compliance, and recognize instances of shadow IT.
o Coupled with Network Access Control (NAC) solution from Extreme Networks, Purview enhances IT operational and services efficiencies by providing a richer set of analytics: username, location, device type, network policies and more.
? Purview is powered by patented CoreFlow2™ ASIC technology which provides access to application usage information in flows traversing the network.
? At initial release, the Purview customizable signature set supports over 13,000 application fingerprints over 7000 applications, including enterprise CRM, ERP, HCM, storage, web, collaboration, email, social networks and gaming.
