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NetBrain Discovery and Inventory Appliance
The NetBrain Discovery and Inventory Appliance (DAP) is a Network Discovery and Network Inventory Maintenance solution. It is designed for large enterprises and network outsourcing service providers, where accurate and comprehensive knowledge about networks is essential and the cost of error prohibitive. Examples of Discovery Appliance use include:
- Network outsourcers that have an automated mechanism to keep network inventory updated and need to discover and document client networks during initial engagements
- Large enterprises which have thousands of network devices under management that need to ensure every network device is properly managed while the network is under constant change
The NetBrain Discovery Appliance shares the same network discovery algorithm as NetBrain Workstation but with a more advanced discovery engine. In a large network, the Discovery Appliance can discover up to 2,000 network devices per hour. For network re-discovery, it can run as fast as 10,000 devices per hour. The Discovery Appliance also offers customizable support for multi-vendor products.
Compared to other network discovery solutions in the market place, the NetBrain Discovery Appliance stands out in speed and more importantly accuracy and depth. NetBrain Discovery Appliance reaches up to 99% accuracy. It also has capabilities to discover both layer 3 (L3) and layer 2 (L2) network topology, and discovers network design such as routing, VLAN and multicasting.
The NetBrain Discovery Appliance can completely free large organizations from needing to keep manual inventory of their network, where adding, removing and modifying network devices is common. Finally, with NetBrain Discovery Appliance, there is an automated network documentation solution that can bring network discovery to a new level.
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