Network performance tools
➤ Mimic (Gambit Communications, http://www.
gambitcomm.com): SNMP (simple network management protocol)-based enterprise management
tools for network management developers and users.
➤ Chariot, Pegasus (Ganymede Software, http://www.
ganymede.com): A tool intended for managing,
testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network
performance.
➤ NetClarity (LANQuest, http://www.lanquest.com):
Network performance management and diagnostic
tools for load balancing, capacity planning, and
service-level management.
➤ NetMaker (Make Systems, http://www.makesystems.
com): Network planning, network engineering, and
traffic analysis.
➤ Link Analyst (Network Instruments, http://www.
networkinstruments.com): Graphical network
mapping, route analysis, quality-of-service management, troubleshooting, and up-time monitoring.
➤ NetSpec (University of Kansas, http://www.ittc.
ukans.edu/netspec): Traffic generation tools for
network experimentation, passive measurement,
and performance testing.
Application and business
performance tools
➤ Total Control (Lightspeed Systems, http://www.
lightspeedsystems.com): Traffic load, quality of
service, firewall, and server monitoring and control.
➤ VitalSuite 7 (Lucent Technologies, http://www.ins.
com): Network application and business performance data, custom reports, and views.
➤ S3 (NextPoint Networks, http://www.nextpoint.
com): Managing networks, e-commerce, IP services, and applications designed to support the business objectives of the enterprise.
➤ Application Expert (Optimal Networks, http://www.
optimal.com): Visualizing, reporting, and tuning ecommerce, ERP, and Web-based applications over
wide area networks.
➤ WebLoad (RadView Software, http://www.radview.
com): Simulating and confirming real-world traffic
to test Web applications’ performance and scalability requirements.
Special-purpose tools
➤ SystemView (Elanix, http://www.elanix.com): Designing and simulating analog, wireless, cellular,
and other communications systems and networks.
➤ Odyssey (Logica, http://www.logica.com/offerings/):
Design tools for radio-based networks.
➤ Visio 2000 (Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/
office/visio): Network drawing and diagramming tool.
➤ Simulink (The MathWorks, http://www.mathworks.
com): Digital signal processing and control system
component design.
➤ Telsoft (Telsoft International, http://www.telsoft.
com): Extracting and presenting real-time network
activity, traffic, and routing data; primarily for
telecommunications networks.
➤ VPI Suite (Virtual Photonics, http://www.virtu
alphotonics.com): Bandwidth design tools for
physical layer components, and access and transport networks.
➤ NetSuite (Visionael, http://www.netsuite.com):
Discovering, validating, and designing complex
networks.
➤ VisSim (Visual Solutions, http://www.vissim.com):
Modeling and simulating analog, digital, and
mixed-mode components and systems.
➤ NPAT—Network Planning and Analysis Tool
(WANDL—Wide Area Network Design Laboratory, http://www.wandl.com): High-end tools for
network design, capacity planning, failure analysis,
and network management; includes a sophisticated
database of tariffs.