This presentation is about how ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer played an effective role in managing network bandwidth at one of America's leading real estate companies Boston Properties.

1. MANAGEENGINE
NETFLOW ANALYZER
SAVES BANDWIDTH
COSTS AT BOSTON
PROPERTIES
How ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer saved
bandwidth costs and helped monitor
network traffic

2. About the Company
• Fully integrated, self-administered and self-
managed real estate investment trust
• One of the largest owners and developers of
class-A office properties in the United States
• Focus on 5 markets –
Boston, Washington, Mid-town
Manhattan, San Fransisco & Princeton
• They monitor over 80 sites

3. Business Challenge
• Viewing information on network health and
availability without spending hours and hours
on a daily basis
• At-a-glance view of the network traffic in
terms of applications, talkers and
conversations
• Quick analysis and troubleshooting of network
slowdown

4. Business Requirements
• To pinpoint the root cause of network
sluggishness
• Top applications, talkers and conversations
• Time of usage of specific applications
• Verification of DSCP marking for VoIP packets
to ensure that priority is given to them
• At-a-glance view of network health and
availability

5. They needed a tool that:
• Provided network snapshot
• Drilled down to pinpoint
source, destination, convers
ations etc. on devices and
interfaces
• Showed DSCP marking
information
• Scaled to a high extent
• Was affordable

6. Enter ManageEngine: Exit Problems

7. What ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer
did?
• Drilled down into the devices and interfaces
• Provided high visibility into network traffic
behavior
• Had the ability to view and understand traffic
patterns in customizable timeframes
• Categorized top applications, conversations
etc. in customizable dashboards
• Saved precious troubleshooting time by
pinpointing exact cause of network slowdown

8. Icing on the cake
Exceeding expectations!

9. Additional benefits of NetFlow
Analyzer
• Ability to create alert profiles based on
thresholds
• Automatic scheduling of reports on a
daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Trend analysis of bandwidth utilization on the
network
• Saved much more time and bandwidth
• 30 day fully functional trial version for easy
evaluation

10. Business Benefits

11. About Implementation
• Monitor 750 interfaces
• Across 80 sites
• Evaluated for 500 Interfaces and are currently
using NetFlow Analyzer for 750 interfaces
• Currently use Enterprise edition
• Extensively use alerts, NBAR reports and its
deep packet inspection ability to track
applications using dynamic port

12. Benefits That They Enjoyed
• Saved troubleshooting time
• Minimized downtime a great deal
• Drilled down to the root cause of the problem
in minimum time
• Cisco NBAR reports helped tracking
applications using dynamic ports and
conserved bandwidth
• Bandwidth usage was much more streamlined
and saved costs by minimizing wasteful usage

13. Contact:
NetFlow Analyzer Support: nfs@manageengine.com
Visit: www.netflowanalyzer.com
To download the case study: Click here

14. THANK YOU
- Presentation by: Sai Sundhar P