Cisco Systems offers a complete family of dedicated, enhanced LAN, WAN and ATM Remote Monitoring (RMON) probes for comprehensive, end-to-end, seven-layer monitoring of an enterprise network. SwitchProbe products provide a powerful distributed management architecture for performing traffic analysis, troubleshooting, trend reporting, and proactive network management. The real-time traffic analysis and trend reporting capabilities of SwitchProbe devices provide visibility into network behavior for long-term planning. They provide the diagnostic information needed for troubleshooting the Media Access Control (MAC), network, or application-layer problems before they can affect network availability. The probes' network-based thresholding and alarm capabilities provide an early warning system to help improve network reliability and availability.