This presentations highlights how the SteelCentral Network Performance and Configuration Management (NPCM) product family reduces the time and effort spent manually collecting and reconciling data from multiple sources to document the status, dependencies and configuration of the enterprise network by helping separate teams share information. • Reduce network outages with customized, automated audit reports, detecting policy violations before they affect service availability • Reduce outages caused by misconfiguration for infrastructure that’s too important and too complex to be managed manually, using automated network configuration analysis • Plan for network resiliency despite network changes and growth without making any risky changes to the production network Learn more at: http://www.riverbed.com/npm

1. Ensuring the compliance, resiliency,
and availability of business-critical
network services
Introducing the SteelCentral™ Network Planning and
Configuration Management (NPCM) product family
September 10th, 2014
1:00PM EST/10:00AM PST
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2. Today’s Agenda
Topic Presenter
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Presenc
e
Duration
Welcome and
Introduction to NPCM
Greg Paul Local 10 Minutes
Analyst perspective on this
market segment
Jim Rapoza,
Senior IT Research Analyst,
Aberdeen Group
Remote 15 minutes
Overview of NPCM Products
Pradeep Singh
VP, Engineering
Local 15 minutes
Partner Experience
Paul Thomas,
Net Consulting UK
Remote 10 minutes
Live Demo Sushil Suvarna, Akshay Kakar Local 20 minutes
Wrap-up/Q & A Greg/PM team Local 15 minutes

3. Introducing NPCM
Greg Paul
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, SteelCentral
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4. The Riverbed Application Performance
Platform
Analyze, diagnose, and resolve application performance
and data delivery issues before end users notice a problem
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5. Introducing Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM)
NPCM is part of the SteelCentral™ Management & Visualization product family
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Predictive Multi-Layer
Network Planning
• Multi-layer Planning
• Proactive Change Validation
• Optical Network Design
Real-Time Network Data
Management
• Multi-vendor deep network
discovery and collection at Layer
2/3
• Real-time network data model of
physical, logical and virtual
relationships between network
elements
Intelligent Configuration
Management
• Network Troubleshooting
• Automated Diagramming
• Policy Compliance
• Configuration Management

6. Introducing Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM)
Riverbed SteelCentral™ Network Planning and Configuration
Management (NPCM) family helps overwhelmed IT staff deal with the
everyday challenges of delivering critical business services to end users.
NPCM products can make a daily impact by:
• Having a complete, up-to-date set of network change, topology and
configuration data using NetCollector.
• Keeping your network in compliance with an ever-increasing number of
regulatory, organizational, and security policies using NetAuditor.
• Planning ahead for the growth and the network impact of new services
and technologies using NetPlanner.
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7. SteelCentral NPCM Products
(Formerly NEOP)
Network Planning and
Configuration Management
OPNET VNE Server® software OPNET Network Planner® software
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OPNET NetMapper® software
OPNET Sentinel® software

8. Key NPCM Takeaways
• Improve efficiency – Create accurate network diagrams
on-demand in minutes, not days or weeks
• Reduce network outages – Reduce network outages up
to 30%; detect policy violations before they affect service
availability
• Ease infrastructure management – Reduce
misconfiguration by up to 70%
• Mitigate Risk – Accurately plan for changes without
making changes to the production network
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9. Analyst Perspective
Jim Rapoza
Senior IT Research Analyst, Aberdeen Group
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10. THE CHALLENGES OF NETWORK
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
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11. TOP NETWORKING HURDLES Top challenges businesses face when it comes to understanding and
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managing their network performance

12. An hour of downtime costs
businesses an average of $163,000.
For large enterprises, the cost
skyrockets to $686,000!
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13. "Appropriate metrics supported by robust
data collection and dashboard technologies
are key enablers to manage performance
and optimization. Getting to the root cause of
performance issues is a "game of chance"
without the proper tools and insightful
attention to manage/interpret the results."
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THE RISE OF
MOBILE PHONES
MEANS GREAT
THINGS FOR
FINGERS
EVERYWHERE.
CIO, North American manufacturing firm

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Trends in Network Performance
Management
• Increased focus on deep
THE RISE OF
MOBILE PHONES
MEANS GREAT
understanding of existing network
• Businesses realize that performance
THINGS FOR
FINGERS
EVERYWHERE.
issues need to be resolved as fast as
possible
• Information on network performance
and configuration is vital
• Avoid downtime at all costs

15. NPCM Product Overview - Product
Snapshots
Pradeep Singh
VP of Engineering
Network Planning and Configuration Management
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16. Riverbed’s NPCM Product Suite
Network Devices
Monitoring Appliances
Management Systems
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Up-to-date Network maps
Policy Compliance
Configuration
Management
Predictive Multi-layer
Planning
Proactive Change Validation
Optical Network Design

17. New in NPCM 18.0 Release
NetCollector
Rebranded and
refocused
Expanded SteelHead
support to enable
diagramming and
configuration auditing
Quick, trace-route
independent, and more
accurate application
network paths
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NetPlanner
Optimized for
planning use cases
Integration with
NetProfiler (Cascade)
for flow-based
capacity planning and
routing analysis
VPN browser for
one-stop VPN
planning in carrier
networks
NetAuditor
Streamlined
web interface
For network
diagramming
workflows
Overlay configuration
differences/violations
on network maps
Configmanagement,
incl. OS upgrades
using Provisioner

18. NetCollector Product Snapshot
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19. Pain Points
Keeping up
with the Network
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• Expensive and slow to manually collect and document the infrastructure in a
multi-vendor, dynamic environment
• Logical and virtual topologies make it even harder to keep up-to-date with
constant network changes
Managing
Complex Networks
• Understanding the relationships between infrastructure elements
• Inadequate visibility into logical and virtual overlays
Using
Point Solutions
• Disjointed, vendor-specific methods lead to knowledge gaps
• Lack of integrated reporting leads to inefficient manual reports

20. NetCollector
Unified, Real-Time Network Intelligence
• Foundation for other NPCM Products
– Manages topology, configuration, inventory, metrics, traffic, and event data
– Intelligently merges and reconciles data
– Online, real-time, 24x7 operation
• Comprehensive device support
– Detailed CLI support for most popular
vendors
– Universal device support via
CLI and SNMP
– Detect hosts/servers and their switch
port connectivity
• Integration with external data sources
– E.g., AppResponse
– Third party NMS and OSS tools
• Network data at your fingertips
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21. Framework to acquire
comprehensive
network data
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Automated deep
network discovery &
collection
Rich data model with
physical, logical, &
traffic overlays
Key Take Away Points

22. “Misconfigurations were reduced by more than 70% in
just a few months through regular network configuration
analysis. Our credit card services network is now
operating with higher than ever infrastructure availability -
over 99.5%. … all of these are too important and too
complex to be managed manually.”
VP, Infrastructure Performance Management, Major US
Bank
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23. NetAuditor Product Snapshot
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24. Pain Points
Slow Recovery
from Outages
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• Time-consuming, manual troubleshooting workflows slow down identification of
root causes and recovery from outages
Troubleshooting
with Stale Data
• Relying on manual systems and spreadsheets to document constant changes to
network topology, settings and configuration
• No easy way to see the relationship between for physical and logical topology
Maintaining
Audit Compliance
• Fear of being out of compliance and the penalties that could bring
• Always worrying that any network changes may create non-compliance
IT Staff
Efficiency
• Have to use different, vendor-specific tools to do OS upgrades and configuration
changes

25. NetAuditor
Intelligent Network Configuration Management
• Network Diagramming, Compliance, Security, and Change Validation
– Model-driven, and not just individual device or file-driven
– Operates on multiple devices to analyze entire network
– Extensible framework in Python
• Multi-layered Physical and Logical Views
– Spanning Tree, Device Virtualization (VRF, Nexus VDC),
OSPF, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, IS-IS, etc.
– Highlighted changed and new devices with
configuration comparison sheets
• Over 1,800 Configuration validation Rules
– Broadest standards coverage: PCI, SOX, HIPAA,
FISMA, NIST, CIS, NSA, Cisco Safe
– Vendor best practices, security advisories,
and OS End-of-Life notices
• Change Deployment and Management
– Safely validate, deploy, and track changes
in network
– Maintain audit trail
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26. Key Take Away Points
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Policy Compliance
and Reporting
Automated
Diagramming
Configuration
Management
Network
Troubleshooting

27. “Gone are the days are guessing. With Riverbed® SteelCentral™
NetAuditor, we’re in the age of ‘knowing and planning’ now.”
SOURCE : TechValidate http://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/E60-2A9-398 TVID: E60-2A9-398
Senior IT Architect, Large Enterprise Computer HW
Company
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28. NetPlanner Product Snapshot
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29. Pain Points
Network
Resiliency
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• If I have a fiber cut, which portions of my network will go down?
• Can I optimize my network while maintaining responsiveness and SLAs?
Growth
and Upgrades
• Which links will I need to upgrade in 3 months?
• How will my new corporate applications affect utilization levels?
Visibility of
Network Services
• Which VPNs do I have deployed on each of my links?
• How much network utilization is attributable to VPNs?
Balancing
Performance
vs. Cost
• Can I quickly perform MPLS TE on my service provider grade network?
• How does would route optimization affect performance of my network?

30. NetPlanner
Predictive Multi-Layer Planning
• Multi-Layer Analysis
– Integrating the layer-2/3 and the optical layer network
– Predict survivability during failures
• Capacity Planning
– Analyze multi-period build-out plans
– Optimize dimensioning to avoid capacity shortages
• Backbone Engineering
– Perform automated off-line MPLS Traffic Engineering
– View and optimize BGP peering relationships
– Design and analyze multi-layer IP/MPLS over
SONET/SDH, OTN, and (D)WDM networks
• Resource Upgrade and Consolidation
– Plan for network changes before they affect business
– Comprehensive analytics to aid decision making
• Proactive Change Validation
– Understand the impact of configuration changes
prior to deployment
– Evaluate the impact of changes on routing and
performance
– Ensure changes are compliant to defined policies
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31. Key Take Away Points
Flow-based
capacity planning and
routing analysis
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“What-if”
scenario
modeling
Comprehensive
reporting
Rich set of
network
visualizations

32. “The use of [NetPlanner] across our radio, core and IP
networks gives us the ability to model all facets of end-to-end
customer experience with a single tool. Optimizing
customer experience is the priority for the business, and
the use of a single tool minimizes the investment in time
and money required to achieve this.”
Forecasting and Capacity Planning Manager, Global Service Provider
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33. NPCM 18.0 for Existing
Customers
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34. For Existing NetMapper and Sentinel
Customers
NetAuditor provides an intuitive web interface with
integrated workflows and reports
• Map driven configuration troubleshooting
• On-demand, context-specific maps and diagrams
• Network paths to troubleshoot application performance issues
• Configuration differences and configuration violations
• Share results using web URL or download results to an HTML/Visio format
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35. For Existing SteelHead™ Customers
NetCollector and NetAuditor now give more in-depth visibility to
SteelHead appliances in the network
• Automatically detect and collect configuration and operational data
• Visualize SteelHead deployment scenarios
• Validate configurations to check for errors and violations
• Detect security vulnerabilities and get automatic updates on new advisories
• Plan for upgrades using hardware end of life reports
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36. Partner Perspective
Paul Thomas
Net Consulting UK
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37. Live Demo of NPCM
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38. For More
information
www.riverbed.com/products/performance-management-control/network-performance-
management/network-configuration-management
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Visit the NPCM Product Family
page

39. Questions?
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40. Thank You
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