Network Management Services and Solutions

Management of all the factors related to a network is termed as Network Management. This definition stands true both for enterprise and service provider network. So whether it is security, topology mapping, monitoring, planning, or analysis of network performance,Network Management Services (NMS) take care of all. Nowadays, networks have become more dynamic and complex in nature. A company needs to build an ability to monitor every important development happening in a network at any given moment. This would help them identify data bottlenecks and address them on time. The need for these enterprises to model and plan networks for either change or expansion has also become important in current times. Keeping all these aspects in mind, it is essential for a company to choose their NMS prudently.

IT is the backbone of almost every industry these days. On realizing the significance of IT for better functioning of various industries, day-by-day the NMS are becoming more sophisticated and intelligent. So be it large or small, complex or simple, or a heterogeneous network, there are solutions to serve each of them. An army of network management hardware and software solution providers are waiting to serve you.

A company can expect the solution provider to develop a solution catering to its specific needs or can modify the existing solution to deal with the new challenges that its IT network faces on daily basis. However, a comprehensive, automated network diagnostic tool has always been in demand. A tool that can analyze wireless, VPN, VLAN, IP and VoIP problems can never be out of demand. A solution that handles call information, call performance, and network analysis, all at the same time, can be used for troubleshooting specific VoIP problems. For such customized solutions, a company may have to pay a premium but one should never treat it as expenditure but investment as such solutions have tremendous long-run benefits. 

The industry experts believe that a modification in Enterprise Network Management Solutions to suit the ways in which IP networks are used these days, is required. There is rapid emergence of real-time applications to serve critical needs of IT operations but in the due course putting immense pressure on them, making it difficult for organizations to keep up. To solve such issues, systems management vendors would require developing  fresh approaches and solutions.

Does all this mean that managing a packet network is more difficult than a circuit-switched one? The answer is not exactly more difficult but surely much different as it has its own set of challenges, which might not be easy due to the newness of their nature. Though for many years, packet networks have been managed successfully, the time has come to develop new management techniques, keeping currently challenges of an enterprise or industry in mind.

There is also a need to educate the network administrators about the need for these latest approaches and solutions.  Many of them won’t realize the need unless significant deployment problems crops up. They need to be pushed to change their views about network performance and approach towards its management.

Network Management Solutions are improving in leaps and bounds; more in creative new ways. Shifting from current, reactive support methods to an automated, customer-centric, proactive support approach allows an organization to detect problems at an early stage and thus would be in a better position to deal with problems at the root and save time, otherwise used to be spent on interacting with customers, in data collection and complex diagnostics. The end result would be utmost network performance and uptime.