F7 Optimal Management Center

An Innovative Approach: Centralized, Proactive Management of All Network Traffic

F7 OptimalCenter provides a bird’s-eye view of all traffic on the network, coupled with the dynamic provisioning, alerting and policy-based control needed to manage IP/broadband services efficiently and profitably.

The intuitive and colorful OptimalCenter GUI provides network monitoring tools which help network operators monitor their network to understand how their bandwidth is being consumed by applications and users on the network, and allows them to directly link service deployment and performance policies to their business goals.

Align bandwidth with business needs

F7 OptimalCenter centrally manages the configuration, policy management, software distribution and adaptive response tracking of multi-unit deployments. OptimalCenter ensures that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with the changing demands of your business, whether for several appliances located at one site or thousands of appliances distributed globally.

Ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with changing business demands across the whole network. Exert comprehensive network control with centralized configuration, policy management, software distribution and Adaptive Response tracking for multi-unit OptimalQoS or/and OptimalAoS deployments.

Using F7 OptimalCenter, you can:

• Automatically deploy and configure remote appliances in minutes.
  Flexible Configuration Overrides. Flexible configuration overrides make it easy to design location-specific settings.
  Shared Hierarchical Configurations. Hierarchical configurations are sharable by multiple OptimalQoS or/and OptimalAoS appliances.
  Schedulable Distribution. Schedule the distribution of Optimal Management Center system upgrades and plug-ins.
• Apply customized policies based on location, function or other criteria
• Centralized Control Mechanisms. Manage up to 512 OptimalQoS or/and OptimalAoS deployments through a single, intuitive interface. Select from a wide variety of centralized mechanisms available to control performance-including dynamic partitions and sub partitions, rate control and never-admit, ignore and discard policies.
• Scale IT resources to reduce overhead and total cost of ownership.
• Centralized Adaptive Response View. Maintain a centralized view of Adaptive Response status for thousands of OptimalQoS or/and OptimalAoS appliance.

Centralized application monitoring and reporting

F7 OptimalCenter provides powerful application performance monitoring for OptimalQoS or/and OptimalAoS appliances deployed across your entire system. By collecting, correlating and reporting on business critical applications, OptimalCenter empowers IT organizations to:

• Track Voice over IP (VoIP) performance levels.
• Quickly identify and diagnose performance problems.
• Ensure business critical applications meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• Identify rogue applications on the network.
• Provide reports on application and network utilization.
• Secure, role-based Management. Hierarchical logins based on secure LDAP technology assign rights to users or groups with audit trails to monitor activities.

F7 OptimalCenter Solutions (pdf)