In today’s challenging economic environment, IT directors must find ways to improve total cost of ownership through more efficient use of existing infrastructure, and expand opportunities to analyze and predict performance of the applications they use every day across the enterprise.
XO Applications Performance Management is a suite of analytical tools to help businesses optimize the performance of their XO MPLS Wide Area Network (WAN) service, and all of the critical business applications that run over those networks including Voice over IP (VoIP). XO has one of the industry’s most comprehensive, application-aware solutions for increasing applications and network performance.
XO Applications Performance Management helps businesses proactively manage their investments in bandwidth and applications by providing real-time and historical network, server and application statistics through a private web-based interface. It provides end-to-end, panoramic visibility of the performance of applications at all specified locations across the WAN—plus the granular focus into specific Local Area Network, hardware, application or call details, to help resolve issues whenever necessary. Using this intelligence, businesses have better visibility into the performance of network, applications and VoIP layers of the WAN. With XO Applications Performance Management, networking professionals can quickly pinpoint whether an issue is in the network or in the application, monitor bandwidth use, classify and route traffic according to the importance of each application, see how fast data delivers by Class of Service at every location, plan network upgrades and new applications, among many other capabilities—capabilities that immediately enhance the end-user experience of employees, associates and customers using the network.
The XO Applications Performance Management suite of tools is fully integrated as part of the XO MPLS IP-VPN network service that allows businesses to connect offices, customers and partners and converge a range of voice, video and data applications over a single IP network or as part of the XO IP Flex with VPN service that includes the award-winning XO IP Flex bundle of voice, data and web hosting. Customers of these XO MPLS network services select from one of three tiers of XO Applications Performance Management that corresponds to their network needs and requirements:
- Tier 1—Network Performance: a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute snapshot of network performance
- Tier 2—Network and Applications Performance: all of the capabilities of Tier 1, plus powerful applications analysis
- Tier 3—Network, Applications and VoIP Performance: all of the capabilities of Tiers 1 and 2, and VoIP readiness and performance information
XO Applications Performance Management provides the intelligence that network administrators need to make informed decision about the issues confronting them every day.
Contact your local XO sales representative, or submit an online request form for more information.
- Related Resources
- APM On-Demand Webcast: Why MPLS and other Managed Services in These Economic Times
- Metastorm - APM
Customer Video - Applications Performance Management Demo
- Podcast Interview
- Press Release: XO Launches Applications Performance Management Tools
- Applications Performance Management Data Sheet
- White Paper: Increase Application Effectiveness with XO® Application Performance Management
- White Paper: Building an ROI: Application & Network Performance Management
- White Paper: The Benefits of Migrating to an MPLS-based Private IP Network: It's Time
- White Paper: Avoid Three Common Pitfalls with VoIP Readiness Assessments
