Cisco Services Modules

The innovative design of Cisco NAM combines a rich set of embedded data collection and analysis capabilities with a remotely accessible, Web-based management console, all of which reside on a single blade that is easily installed into Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches, Cisco 7600 Series Routers, or Cisco Integrated Services Routers. The Cisco NAM includes the embedded Web-based Traffic Analyzer console which offers quick access to configuration menus and presents easy-to-read performance reports on data, voice, and video traffic.

Cisco is pleased to introduce its second-generation Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM, NME-NAM-80S, which replaces the first-generation, NM-NAM. The high-performance NME-NAM-80S offers up to 100-Mbps WAN traffic monitoring throughput, an 80-GB capacity hard disk drive to store even more capture data onboard, and a Gigabit Ethernet external interface to support high-throughput LAN traffic monitoring in the empowered branch. The NME-NAM-80S is integrated in the Cisco 2800 and 3800 Series integrated services routers and the Cisco 3700 Series multiservice routers. It includes the embedded, Web-based Traffic Analyzer GUI, providing anytime, anywhere visibility into network traffic.

Cisco NAM users can experience a powerful new transaction-based response-time monitoring solution that bridges the chasm between application performance and end-user experience. Passively gathering data on TCP-based client/server requests and acknowledgements, the new response-time monitoring solution of Cisco NAM provides intelligent information on client, server, and application latency to help enterprises assure the reliable delivery of the applications that make up the business. The response-time metrics of Cisco NAM can assist busy IT staff in troubleshooting application performance problems, analyzing application behavior and trends for capacity planning, identifying application consolidation opportunities, performing pre- and postdeployment monitoring of application optimization and acceleration services, and defining and helping ensure service levels.

Cisco NAM offers an enhanced historical reporting capability that provides highly granular visibility into network traffic, including individual applications and end users. Helping enable operations staff to identify issues that can disrupt business operations, the live reporting capability of Cisco NAM exposes problems that would otherwise be masked if critical report updates occurred less frequently. This information facilitates the quick identification and verification of traffic anomalies so that impending problems can be rapidly resolved.

Cisco NAM Software 3.6 is supported on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series NAM (available in two hardware versions, NAM-1 and NAM-2), on the second-generation Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM (NME-NAM-80S) and on the first-generation Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM, NM-NAM. Information regarding system (switch or router) hardware and software requirements can be found in the Cisco NAM Software 3.6 Release Notes posted on Cisco.com.

Cisco NAM Software 3.6 will be available in April 2007 as part of NAM hardware orders. At that time, current Cisco NAM customers can download the new release from the Cisco.com Software Center at no charge using their Cisco SMARTnet® contract access privileges.

Table 1 provides ordering information for Cisco NAM Software 3.6. Table 2 provides ordering information for the new Cisco Branch Routers Series NAM. To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center.

For more information about Cisco NAM, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/nam, contact your local sales representative, or e-mail the Cisco NAM product marketing group at nam-info@cisco.com.