As you upgrade and/or redesign your network, evaluating monitoring tools is really important.

Application-aware network performance management (NPM) products provide deep views into apps and use patterns, and user-centric performance views. Network packet broker (NPB) products ease implementation and management of NPM and related technologies.

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