Retrospective network analysis (RNA)
GigaStor provides the hindsight necessary to maintain today’s complex networks. With continually captured data, GigaStor makes it easy to “rewind” your network, determine the source, perform comprehensive analysis, and move on. By removing the guesswork and the need to start a packet capture, retrospective network analysis greatly speeds network troubleshooting and provides long-term corporate-wide benefits.

Hold everything
GigaStor can hold up to 12 TB of data or offload to a SAN for nearly unlimited storage potential. It continually updates and tracks storage capacity as it pertains to your network.

Revive the past
GigaStor can take captured traffic and recreate the communication in an easy-to-read format. Rebuild web pages (including images), reconstruct e-mails and instant messages to gather hard evidence of network activity.

Comprehensive analysis
GigaStor provides long-term, real-time and post-capture in-depth network statistics across multiple topologies and technologies. Track bandwidth utilization, network Top Talkers, link utilization, application metrics, NetFlow data, and more with a full arsenal of information at your fingertips. Expert analysis provides insight into possible causes for network problems and offers immediate solutions.

Answer the VoIP Call
GigaStor’s VoIP Analysis continually monitors VoIP performance. Save or play voice conversations. Obtain high-level VoIP traffic summaries and in-depth call detail records. Track jitter, MOS, and other pertinent areas of voice and video communication.

Suspicious web activity
HR requests a report on web activity for employee John Doe, who is suspected of accessing prohibited web sites using corporate equipment.

IT goes back in time
IT uses the GigaStor’s Time Navigation to quickly isolate and filter down to John Doe’s web traffic for the previous week.

IT reconstructs web pages
A quick scan shows a few suspicious URLs. With the GigaStor, the IT manager can see the web page exactly as it appeared on that specific day by reconstructing captured data. The GigaStor’s Stream Reconstruction rebuilds web pages that were visited during the time period in question.

GigaStor shows evidence
Evidence allows HR to take appropriate action and enforce corporate policy with the employee.

“It is imperative that our network users have the ability to access patient health records. The GigaStor appliances play a key role in ensuring network and application access is always available. The GigaStor is used to proactively diagnose intermittent issues with network, application, and infrastructure performance.” 

- Bill Lundgren,
  Lead Enterprise Network Engineer
  Aurora Healthcare