Cisco^® Catalyst^® 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series Network Analysis Module (NAM) is a powerful network-aware performance monitoring solution that delivers unparalleled insight into network traffic to help you ensure the consistent and efficient delivery of applications and services to your end users.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco 7600 Series NAM is a powerful performance monitoring solution designed to give you more visibility into your network than ever before. It shows you how the network is being used and how your users experience the services the network offers to help you improve network and application performance. Because Cisco NAM provides visibility for comprehensive performance analysis and simplified troubleshooting, it is ideally suited for today's dynamic, evolving enterprises.

The innovative design of Cisco NAM combines a rich set of embedded data collection and analysis capabilities with a remotely accessible, web-based management console, all of which reside on a single blade that is easily installed into the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch or the Cisco 7600 Series Router. Cisco NAM is available in two hardware versions, NAM-1 and NAM-2 (Figure 1) and offers extensive monitoring capabilities to meet diverse network analysis needs in scalable switching and routing environments. Cisco NAM includes a Traffic Analyzer GUI, which provides quick access to the configuration menus and presents easy-to-read performance reports on web, voice, and video traffic.