NIKSUN Puma Portable

Today's global network infrastructure accommodates an intricate web of remote sites, satellite offices, data centers, server farms, applications, services, etc. While NIKSUN's NetOmni Suite empowers organizations to manage the performance, security and compliance monitoring of these remote locations from a central dashboard, it is often inevitable for Systems Integrators, Service Providers, Forensic Analysts and other professionals on the field to monitor and troubleshoot issues on-site.

The current network monitoring market offers very limited portable monitoring solutions that compromise on capture speeds, storage capacity and analysis/reporting functions. That is, until now.

With the launch of NIKSUN's Puma, a portable network monitoring appliance, NIKSUN's customers can now leverage the state-of-the-art network performance, security and compliance monitoring technology as a robust luggable appliance that can be conveniently used in the field. Deployed in a few short steps, Puma offers with exceptional functionality of NIKSUN's renowned performance and security monitoring technology within minutes to field personnel. Puma, is now capable of monitoring networks at 10G speeds. The incorporation of real-time 10G monitoring to the Puma feature-set enhances the already excellent value that Puma provides to customers, making it the go-to portable monitoring and forensics tool for network professionals.

Puma incorporates the world-renowned functions of NetVCR for comprehensive, real-time performance monitoring and NetDetector for security monitoring, compliance verification and forensic analysis. Lightweight and extremely portable, Puma is a perfect portable monitoring device for field personnel who need to fix on-site issues or even conduct pre-deployment network assessments prior to rolling out new technology, infrastructure or services. Puma captures and stores all network information (packets, SNMP, Flow, etc.) in a contextual NIKSUN Network Knowledge Warehouse just like NetVCR and NetDetector do. Puma offers terabytes worth of storage capacity, enabling data capture over days or even weeks. Traffic can be monitored at 10G line-rates and analysis can be conducted at extremely granular levels, in multiple time-scales, all the way to the subsecond level.

Equipped with packet capture capabilities of 10G rates, the Puma is designed to meet portable network analysis and forensics needs at high speed core networks. The inclusion of 10G monitoring into its feature set makes the Puma an indispensable toolf or mobile network professionals.

This enables easy on-site cause-analysis of network latency, anomaly or intrusion detection, SLA monitoring, security forensics, lawful intercept, policy compliance monitoring, capacity planning, bandwidth management and benchmarking. Puma also offers NetDetector's unique application reconstruction capability, allowing mobile security professionals to gather, trace and replay evidence of suspicious network activity.

Puma can also be deployed on-site and then left there for a few days or weeks for remote monitoring via a simple web-browser.

Puma is available in two form-factors: a high-performance, large capacity system or a rugged unit that adheres to MIL-A-8625E Type II/III Mil Specs.

Benefits

• Power of a NIKSUN monitoring appliance in a convenient, portable form-factor at 10G speeds
• Lightweight, starting at 13.5 lbs, Puma is extremely travel-friendly and fits comfortably in overhead compartments of airplane cabins (or can be checked in as regular baggage)
• End-end network security, performance & application monitoring on-site, on-the-go, in-the-field
• No-compromise network forensic analysis and diagnostics on-the-field with the world-renowned, highly intuitive NIKSUN analysis GUI, granularity, functions and speeds
• Generate powerful on-demand reports
• Highly customizable- can be tailored to specific requirements of mobile network professionals with various NIKSUN software bundles and add-on modules
• Packs terabytes of storage
• Plug & Play device deploys within minutes with no network downtime
• End-to-end network security, performance and application monitoring on-site, on the go, in the field at 10G rates