Chevin Give Away Wide Area Network Monitoring Software

A software module that monitors network performance is being made available free by UK-based network management specialist Chevin. Arguably, the most expensive part of any network is the Wide Area Network, and yet many Network Managers continue to pay for these services in blissful ignorance of whether they are getting value for money. Now they can start to gain an insight for free.

The powerful WAN Reporter trial module is one of many available with Chevin's flagship TeVISTA network management suite. It is available now for free download from

Chevin's WAN Reporter is a straightforward and easy to use software module that is designed to monitor and manage your central site router and links to remote sites - with the full version of the product there is no limit to how many sites and connections can be monitored. Best of all, the software has been developed with all manufacturers products in mind, so any flavour of router, switch or bridge can be monitored in exactly the same way, greatly simplifying the management of any typical, multi-vendor network.
According to Koby Amedume, Vice President of Marketing at Chevin, "For many organisations the biggest cost within the network is the cost of bandwidth - year after year. Network Managers should ask themselves - How do I monitor WAN usage? Am I paying for unused or wasted bandwidth? Could I reduce expenditure without compromising user performance? If I could re-allocate some of my bandwidth budget to improving other parts of the network, would I improve performance?"
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Working with Chevin's flagship product, TeVISTA, the WAN reporter module provides statistics for each port on a switch including percentage utilisation, packets per second, data volumes, error information including collisions and discards, and total uptime including counts for broadcast and multicast traffic. Other modules within TeVISTA allow the network manager to go to the next step, which is to understand who and what is actually using the bandwidth, although WAN Reporter is a good first step for those who have no WAN monitoring tools at present.