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With new technology continually changing the way we do business, the demand on networks is growing at a rapid pace. Network managers need to ensure that the network has the capacity to run new applications, or deal with increased demand for existing applications. Capacity planning measures trends and traffic growth over long periods so that you can make informed decisions on future bandwidth requirements and avoid unnecessary infrastructure expenditure.

By measuring the traffic with respect to present and past metrics, network performance and capacity trends can be quickly identified allowing policies to be put in place to match business growth. Effective budget forecasting can be achieved by determining when current WAN infrastructure will exceed capacity or how many users can be supported for a specific task or application.

nMetrics’ capacity planning tools allow for verification of carrier or network provider service level agreements (SLAs) with a comprehensive set of customizable reports. Because the nMetrics’ Application Monitor is 'subnet aware', usage based billing and chargeback can be undertaken on both volume and/or application usage from a single central appliance.