Chevins TeVISTA Helps Eliminate Network Bottlenecks For Renault

Renault implements TeVISTA network management system from Chevin on its Wireless networks.

Renault Ireland has chosen the TeVISTA network management system from Chevin to allow it to identify and solve system bottlenecks at its Dublin headquarters. TeVISTA is the cornerstone of a proactive network management policy implemented by Renault Irelands IT department to allow it to gain total visibility of its networks, devices and peripherals.

Renault Irelands premises house corporate offices, spares warehouses and service facilities. The decision to move to wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) was made to overcome the practical difficulties of extending and upgrading Category 5 and Category 6 network environments within the buildings, in Dublins Ballyfermot district. TeVISTA has been used by Renault Ireland to essentially iron out many of the common configuration issues associated with a new network rollout, in this case in a wireless environment.

TeVISTA is powerful network management and monitoring software that gives control of the costs and performance of the network. It is unique in that it gives total visibility of everything on your network from SNMP specific information to conversations, applications and protocols either locally or remotely, anywhere in the world. As well as providing historical reports, it gives a real-time overview of everything that is happening on complex distributed networks across a multitude of environments, enabling better scaling and planning. Potential problems can be foreseen and avoided so that downtime is eliminated and network capacity can be scaled accurately to meet demand. It can operate with existing Network Management products, such as HP OpenView, Sniffer, or as a stand-alone resource.

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Switching to wireless LANs was the ideal solution for us but created the requirement to get precise information on exactly what traffic and devices were on our networks so that we could identify existing bottlenecks and troubleshoot any problems introduced during the rollout," said Mark Shortt, IT Manager for Renault Ireland. TeVISTAs far-reaching capabilities now support our wholly proactive approach to managing our networked resources."

TeVISTA may be used to support further network management needs at Renault Ireland as the company continues to scale its network architecture.

Our ability to help Renault Ireland to solve specific LAN configuration issues underscores TeVISTAs credentials as a total visibility management suite that allows administrators to gain a single and detailed view across diverse and distributed environments," said Koby Amedume, Vice President of Marketing at Chevin. Many users deploying wireless networks face this challenge and the basic management software provided with most devices falls short of the requirements of proactive management strategy."

TeVISTA provides total visibility of everything on a network in real time by gathering information from the ‘wire without relying on polling devices on the network, which also alleviates the burden on network bandwidth that many management systems can cause.

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Most network management systems for wireline LANs are inadequate for the network manager who wants to get to grips with irksome bottlenecks. Wireless makes this headache into a full scale migraine," said Koby Amedume, Vice President of Marketing at Chevin. TeVISTA works across all platforms and protocols so allows a far more proactive approach, both saving money and supporting investment decisions. Particularly in wireless environments, people, are realising that if you cant see it, you cant manage it properly."
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About Chevin
Chevin is a leading provider of innovative software systems that enable organistions to manage and optimise their mission-critical networks. Its flagship product, TeVISTA, is platform-independent and gives a real-time overview of everything that is happening on the network as well as historical reports. All sizes of distributed networks can be managed remotely through intuitive graphical interfaces. Likely problems can be anticipated and avoided so that downtime is prevented, and network capacity can be scaled to meet demand.

Chevin was founded in 1989 and has offices in Europe and the US. Its software provides solutions for organisations whose business success depends on the effectiveness of their network and who find ease of use and a low cost of ownership particularly appealing. Customers include telcos and service providers, blue-chip companies, e-businesses and medium and large enterprises. Users of Chevin technology include AT&T, BT, ICL, British Gas, Siemens, Securicor and Reuters.