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Feature | Benefit | It's an appliance | Swift installation and configuration | Pop up panels and intuitive GUI | Easy to understand network status – ensuring that navigating and viewing the network is simple and requires little time | Auto-discovery and traceroute | Rapid methods of interpreting a network's topology | Flexible alert options | Ensures key personnel can be alerted 24 hours a day by email, phone or pager | Extensive data collection | Typically Mutiny can store 12 months' worth of monitored data, allowing for accurate graphing, reporting and trend analysis | Graphing | Instant method to present and analyse historic data | Unbeatable price | Breaking down this price over 3 years, businesses can protect their network for under £3.50 per day |
Competitor productsThe network-monitoring marketing is almost entirely software only, leaving the client to source the correct hardware, load it and configure it, or pay high service rates to have it done for them. The market-leading products are aimed at large corporate companies and are, therefore, cost-prohibitive to most businesses. Compared to Mutiny, the graphical interfaces of other products tend to be cluttered with low priority information and use obscure technical jargon. Both these factors lead to confusion and don't draw attention to where the real problems lie. Most network-monitoring products have complicated pricing structures that are sometimes ‘per node’, ‘per agent’, or based on annual service fees. Ultimately, it can be difficult to ascertain exactly how much it will cost you, both from the onset and in the future. Freeware is available at no cost, but requires a high level of technical support and weeks to configure. Most businesses do not have the technical resources to implement such products. Furthermore, most businesses want support, which free products do not provide. In summaryThe best functionality, ease of use and value package, all in a pre-configured appliance. Functionality - Provides the most popular features required by a Network Administrator
Ease of use - Little need for speciality knowledge
Value - At a starting price of under £3,000 - a genuine low cost of ownership and ROI
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