Cascade Family Overview

Application-aware network performance management

"Cascade is the first place we go when we get a call from a user…We can quickly determine where a problem is in the network and what applications and services are being impacted by it."

—Ann Murphy Associate Director Network Systems, Boston College

Riverbed^® Cascade^® is an application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution that provides intelligent, actionable information into the performance of critical business applications. With network visibility into applications, servers and users, the Cascade product family delivers real-time and historical information into network and application performance to enable smarter decision-making and faster, easier problem diagnosis. It delivers proactive alerts on abnormal changes in performance and detailed information about where the problem is – whether it's on the WAN, LAN, software-defined network or cloud – and what's causing it.

Cascade products have an elegant and simple design and deploy easily in complex environments. They give IT and network managers the power to quickly and holistically view network challenges and then accelerate problem resolution. According to IDC, Cascade customers typically experience a 67 percent reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR) with over 519 percent ROI in less than six months.

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The Cascade Difference
The only application-aware solution to provide end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting across WAN, LAN, virtualized, and software-defined networks:

• Accelerate problem identification and resolution
• Enhance IT collaboration and operational efficiency
• Protect user experience
• Maintain business continuity