CETA is a suite of diagnostic applications designed specifically to evaluate network realities regarding collaboration products.
Successful IP Collaboration depends upon 3 fundamental factors:
1) Are the appropriate firewall ports open from one end to the other?
2) Is there sufficient bandwidth from end to end?
3) Is the network link stable, or is it "blinking" on and off?
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You simply must know the answers to all three questions before you can predict whether communication will be successful.
Therefore, CETA was designed to answer all three. It is comprised of three separate modules that will test firewall ports, available bandwidth and network stability. After each test, CETA generates an HTML report that can be forwarded up the chain to appropriate personnel to resolve the problem.
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CETA is a firewall analyzing application. The Firewall Analyzer portion of CETA provides users the ability to determine if the firewall ports required for various collaboration products are open. In the event that required ports are closed, CETA provides concerned parties with a printable report that can be delivered to the appropriate personnel in order to have the firewall configuration changed.
You don’t have to be a firewall administrator to have your success dependant upon a firewall. Numerous collaboration products have failed once fielded because of a misconception that they simply didn’t work, when firewalls are to blame. Why risk your job or program on what someone else tells you regarding firewall configuration? CETA lets you find out first hand if the ports that you need open are in fact open.
Until now, collaboration software administrators have rarely been equipped with the hard facts needed to force firewall configuration changes. CETA places these facts in their hands.
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CETA is a bandwidth testing application. The Bandwidth Tester portion of CETA provides users the ability to determine if the necessary bandwidth is available between collaboration Servers and clients to allow for successful conferencing communications.
While a network may be rated at a certain amount of bandwidth (ie. T1), successful collaboration depends on the available bandwidth at the time of use. The amount a bandwidth available before your conference may be significantly lower the amount needed for success, even if the network “should” have much more.
Until now, collaboration Server administrators rarely have any substantial information regarding the exact places on a network are best suited for collaboration products. CETA provides real data that will aide engineers and planners in this decision making process.
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CETA is a stability monitoring application. The Stability Monitor portion of CETA provides users the ability to determine the short and long-term network stability via ICMP echoes, replies and corresponding analysis.
With many organizations, the actual stability of their current network is often an unknown. What may appear to be a stable network in terms of e-mail and web server applications may be completely unsuitable for the real-time demands of conferencing. With a long-term stability test, site administrators can better predict the performance of their collaboration products.
CETA gives its users a report that they can then share with others, that clearly states the actual stability of a network. This also serves as a way for administrators to keep a historical log of when their network links are more or less stable, thus allowing for much better planning of collaboration sessions.
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CETA provides users with reports indicating the results of any test that it conducts. As soon as your test completes, your report is presented to the screen.
These reports can be printed or emailed, allowing CETA users to share the results with others in order to affect the needed changes.
It is far easier to argue on behalf of you program when you have real tangible evidence of an undesired network reality, CETA gives you that evidence.
CETA also archives your test results, building a historical reference that you may access at any time.
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