Enterprises rely on networked applications and the supporting IT infrastructure to successfully operate their businesses. Business growth pressures combined with the complexity of today's technologies have forced enterprises to confront significant challenges in cost-effective infrastructure management.

IT Guru® Network Planner automates analysis and planning of multi-layer, multi-vendor networks. Organizations can accurately plan for growth, consolidation, technology migration, and new application deployment, including Voice-Over-IP (VoIP), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and IPv6. Exclusive OPNET algorithms automatically optimize the network, in terms of capacity and configuration, to meet traffic growth projections, and achieve performance and survivability.

Inspect network utilization for current and future traffic demands, and identify bottlenecks and network vulnerabilities.

Key Features

• Project traffic growth and automatically size links and tunnels to meet service level objectives
• Automatically design network topologies based on user-configurable priorities for cost, resiliency, and performance-related criteria
• Predict the network MOS score for planned voice-over-IP services with an automated VoIP Readiness Assessment
• Verify the impact of protocol tuning, QoS deployment, or traffic engineering
• Automate analysis and planning for transition to IPv6 with an Automated IPv6 Readiness Assessment and automated IPv6 planning
• Ensure network survivability, predicting the impact of failing nodes, links, or resource groups
• Leverage optional NetDoctor® configuration analysis to validate network configuration changes prior to deployment

Perform VoIP pre-deployment analysis to predict voice performance and impact on the network and other services.

Assess network readiness and perform migration planning for IPv6 deployments.