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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 is designed for large enterprises and network outsourcing service providers, where accurate and comprehensive knowledge about networks is essential and cost of error prohibitive. Examples of Discovery Appliance use include:
- Network outsourcers that have an automated mechanism to keep network inventory updated and that 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 NetBriain Discovery Appliance shares the same network discovery algorithm as NetBriain Workstation but with a more advanced discovery engine. In a large network, the Discovery Appliance can discover up to 4,000 network devices per hour and network re-discovery 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 depth. The DAP not only discovers layer 3 (L3) and layer 2 (L2) network topology, but also discovers network design such as routing, VLAN and multicasting.
The NetBrain Discovery Appliance can completely free large organizations from keeping manual inventory of their network, where adding, removing and modifying network devices is common. At last, NetBrain offers an automated network documentation solution which brings network discovery to a new level.
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