We use it for monitoring our network, MPOS, and top-trending interfaces that are either over-utilized or under-utilized. We're then able to change the bandwidth of those accordingly and save money.

It also help us with the back-end stuff, such as authentication as we have people all over the world trying to log on.

One of the key benefits is doing the performance management piece where you can crack the utilization of network connections and see where your block points are, and if you have errors happening that effect performance that you don't necessarily see as alarms. You can set thresholds inside the Performance Center for those alarms.

It gives us an easier way to start troubleshooting problems. It lets us dig more granularly, so if we saw something come in a couple hours ago the old way of looking at the stats was very, "This is what you're going to get," but now you can dig down and say, "I want to see the specific time frame," or even "I want to dig back days ago and see a two-hour block of what was going on and try to isolate what caused it."

With this product's help, it can greatly ease:

1. Troubleshooting slow issues based on flow data.
2. Troubleshooting high bandwidth utilization and tracking down the root cause.
3. Bandwidth usage reporting for bandwidth capacity planning.