Special Features:

Continuously monitors both inbound and outbound traffic, applications and services at real-time production traffic rates, simultaneously capturing, time-stamping and indexing full-packets in the niksun network knowledge warehouse for zero loss monitoring of enterprise, carrier and isp networks and services

Properties:

An item specifically designed to function as a node on a computer network, and provide service to terminals on the network through managaing an expensive shared resource. includes file server which manages a set of disks and provide storage and archival services to computers on the network that may or may not have their own disks, printer server which provides high quality and/or high speed printing so that each terminal on the network need not have its own printer, and/or communications server which provides connection to various communication media including other lans and/or public networks. excludes: processor, file server.