2. About the Institution
• Headquartered in California
• 85 distinct business units
• 20 hospitals
• 3,100 beds
• 18,800 employees
• 16 home centers
• 3 joint venture retirement centers
• Numerous outpatient facilities
3. Challenge
• Ensure continuous WAN availability
• A network downtime has the following
impacts:
a. Can jeopardize the entire infrastructure
b. Affect patient health monitoring systems
c. Monetary loss
d. Loss of connectivity
e. Loss of reputation
4. Requirements
• Minimize network downtime and lower mean
time to repair
• Provide network visibility to ensure optimum
performance of business critical applications
• Identify top talkers in the network – top hosts,
top destinations etc.
• Minimize costs arising out of inappropriate
bandwidth provisioning
6. The Solution
• ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer was installed
• NetFlow was enabled in the routers &
switches
• The flow exports were captured and data was
extracted
• NetFlow Analyzer converted them into
understandable information
• The reports were presented to the end-user
for easy identification of traffic patterns
7. The Benefits
• Better visibility into network traffic
• Clear insights on network bandwidth usage
• Easy-to-understand reports on network traffic
• Better bandwidth management
• Better capacity planning
• Instant alerts for threshold violations
• A safe and secure network
9. Business Benefits
• Quick troubleshooting – Minimum downtime
and associated costs
• Better capacity planning – Better
infrastructure and investment decisions
• Actual dollar savings by streamlining
bandwidth usage
• Minimizing wastage of bandwidth and
associated cost saving