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WAN management tools


Network World, 11/13/00

For wide-area management, the winner is Visual Networks' Visual Uptime service-level agreement enforcement tool. Visual Uptime came up tops in our comparative review because of its performance. Nance scored Visual Uptime an overall 8.2 for its soup-to-nuts approach to monitoring WAN connections and services.

Best of Tests Award winner: Visual Uptime

Company: Visual Networks, www.visualnetworks.com

Date reviewed: April 3

Score: 8.2

Score above the category mean: .99

Reviewer's comment: "Visual Uptime is the perfect tool for understanding WAN link bandwidth usage, determining [service-level agreement] compliance, isolating WAN link faults and monitoring frame relay expenses."

- Barry Nance, independent consultant

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