Organizations rely heavily upon their network and applications to drive day-to-day operations and support employees and customers. With more remote and mobile users dependent on the wide area network (WAN) and more Web-based applications coming online every day, the amount of traffic crossing organizations' networks is growing exponentially. When bandwidth congestion and network issues are allowed to impede the performance of critical applications, productivity suffers and the entire organization may be put at risk.

Network managers and administrators face the daunting task of effectively monitoring and managing network resources and bandwidth while meeting user expectations for c...