DATA SHEET

Hawkeye – Active Network Monitoring

Platform
Problem: Preventing Network Problems and
Ensuring a Consistent User Experience
Network services are critical to an organization’s survival in today’s highly IT-centric and distributed
environments. However, bottlenecks, latency, Wi-Fi issues, and other hard-to-pinpoint network issues can
seriously compromise a company’s network performance, business operations, and brand reputation.

Whether you are operating your own network or a service provider delivering network services, having a
reliable way to continuously verify network performance and digital experience of your end users is key to
ensure business continuity.

Solution: Proactively Monitor Network

Performance with Active Monitoring
Hawkeye quickly and effectively validates network performance, isolates problems, and proactively
detects issues by running scheduled verification tests on any site using wireline or wireless connections.
Using a combination of hardware and software agents called performance endpoints, Hawkeye simulates
application traffic and sends key performance metrics to a central console for fast action. The agents
provide both remote-site end-user perspectives on network performance — offering network managers a
proactive way to detect, diagnose, and fix issues. Measurements range from network quality to user
experience, enabling network operators to improve overall uptime and detect network performance issues
before they impact end users.

Easy to deploy and simple to use, Hawkeye helps IT ensure peak network performance with proactive
insight.
Highlights
• Get superior visibility into your live networks with Hawkeye’s advanced network and
application testing technology.
• Save IT staff time by leveraging industry-leading library with hundreds of application tests
that enable assessment of network throughput, class of service, unified communications,
Wi-Fi connectivity tests, and much more.
• Understand the performance of your entire network and services with cost-effective active
probe distribution that delivers expansive network coverage.
• Greenlight your service with pre-launch assessments by emulating real application traffic
up to line rate for any network scenario over wired and wireless devices to see how it
performs.
• Be a troubleshooting wonder by firing off quick validation tests with clear demarcation
points and advanced Wi-Fi expert tools to find network and application issues almost

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Key Features
• Web-based platform for multi-user access, test scheduling, data storage, and real-time analysis.
• Deploy endpoints with turnkey hardware or software endpoints.
• Verify your virtual infrastructure with software and virtual endpoints.
• Generate synthetic monitoring traffic on up to 10G links.
• Verify, monitor, and diagnose your user experience on wireline and wireless network.
• Take control of your last mile deliveries.
• Verify fixes put in place in your network in real-time with pass / fail metrics.
• Proactively detect network or application faults quicker with continuous interval testing throughout the
days/weeks/months.
• Leverage machine learning to quickly pinpoint outliers and prioritize fixes.

Hawkeye solution components

• Provided as a virtual appliance

Hawkeye Console (Linux Operating System)
• Web-based, deployed in NOC,
data center, or cloud
• North-bound interfaces, APIs for
easy integration

• Completely turnkey, lightweight,

Hardware Endpoints portable
• Autodiscovery and registration,
automatic upgrades
XR3000 IxProbe • Up to 10G wireline and Wi-Fi 6
connectivity
Software Endpoints Windows VM • Low-footprint software, load into
Linux Container any device
Max OS Android
• Fully compatible with virtual
environments
• Ethernet or Wi-Fi and mobile

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Deploy Hawkeye Solution
• Deploy Hawkeye on premise web server in central location (NOC, data center, etc.)
• Strategically deploy software and hardware endpoints to cost-effectively reach any network location:
o Customer premises
o Mobile devices – Wi-Fi or Cellular
o Remote sites and head offices
o Network aggregation points (PEs)
o Core network, MPLS routers
o Data centers
o Virtual machines and servers
o In public cloud locations (Amazon, Azure…)

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Plan and Design Your Monitoring Capabilities
• Define locations network performance requirements toward data centers, private or public cloud,
software-as-a-service
• Define synthetic monitoring scenarios (IP transport performance, Speed test & throughput tests, web
server performance, Voice/Video, Teams and Office 365, etc.)
• Build large topology test (full mesh) with one click

Figure 1. Hawkeye endpoints

Select Test Types Among Pre-Calibrated Tests in

Hawkeye Library
Hawkeye supports a variety of service level agreement (SLA) and quality of experience (QoE) objectives,
including:

• Speed test from site to site with advanced configuration on traffic profiling
• Advanced Bandwidth availability or verification with bit blasting or TCP-based testing
• Class of service (COS) implementation validation with oversubscription scenarios
• IP network SLA verification (one-way delay, jitter, loss)
• Unified communications tests (Teams, Zoom)
• Office 365 applications
• Real-time streaming verification
o Mean opinion score (MOS) for voice – G711, G729, AMR …
o Media delivery index (MDI) for video streaming
• Echo tests (ICMP, TCP, UDP) and path discovery to any interface on the web
• User experience tests (downloading web pages, etc.)

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• DNS response time
• Netflix, YouTube, and any Dash/Adaptive streaming test
• Multicast video
• Remote destination port opening verification
• Wi-Fi monitoring

Create Target Thresholds for Different Tests

• Adjust applications, test variables, and thresholds based on trial data to match expectations of the
network and its performance
• Auto-learn baseline thresholds based on machine learning algorithms
• Thresholds are the baseline to decide if tests are passing or failing

Leverage Path Discovery for Troubleshooting

• Advanced Topology discovery from Keysight endpoints to any remote
location
• Hop-by-hop discovery
• Path discovered based on specific application settings
• Powerful and intuitive result display
• Quick troubleshooting tools – identify nodes with loss or long delay
• Geolocalization on each identified public node

Path discovery

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Analyze Results
• Use different result levels and granularity to get quick and efficient results and understanding
• Ensure every team member can get to required data with simple pass/fail metrics and detailed test
reports
• See results in real time in geographic dashboards
• Quickly spot network problems with outlier dashboard
• Run tests and look at single instance results or group of tests results
• Run trend reports on historical data and analyze network behaviors
• Export and send reports via email to share results between teams
• Activate alarms on critical paths
• Get notified by email, SNMP traps, customized notifications
• Reporting engine creates reports and dashboards based on the results stored in the database
• Schedule daily automatic reports to follow critical networks
• Receive automatic emails with comprehensive reports

Main dashboard Outliers dashboard

Time series analytics

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Ordering Information
Hardware
XR3000-AC

Keysight XR3000 Active Hardware Endpoint; integrated hardware endpoint for Hawkeye or IxChariot; AC
unit. requires adjunct or previous purchase Hawkeye or IxChariot Licenses

IXPR-CU3

Keysight IxProbe Copper - 10/100/1000M. 1G Intelligent in-line probe with auto speed negotiation, CLI,
Web GUI or SNMP management, and Hawkeye endpoint software. (2) front facing in-line RJ45 network
ports. Managed in band via network link IP adoption or via rear management port. Includes: (1) RJ45
Cat5 cable, (1) wall mount clip, and (1) power supply and 2m power cord. Wall, desktop, or rack
mountable. Pre-loaded Hawkeye Endpoint software requires license and activation via Hawkeye server.

SYSE1S-AC

Keysight Vision E1S System AC Chassis with fixed (4) 10G SFP+ ports and (6) 1G RJ-45 ports;
Contains two redundant AC power supplies and integrated redundant fan units. Includes (1) license for
NetStack, PacketStack, AppStack and (3) user seat license for central management with Hawkeye.
Seats are not additive (max 3 users per Hawkeye server). Synthetic monitoring is not included. Optional
licenses available for additional user seat licenses and synthetic monitoring.

Software licenses
920-2401

Hawkeye, 10 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management system, 10 endpoint (sw
or hw) registration & use, 30 pairs node to node test license, no real services tests, and 1 user seat
license

920-2402

Hawkeye, 25 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management system, 25 endpoint (sw
or hw) registration & use, 75 pairs node to node tests license, 5 concurrent real services tests (requires
XR2000 or XRPi2), and 2 concurrent user seat licenses

920-2403

Hawkeye, 50 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management system, 50 endpoint (sw
or hw) registration and use, 150 pairs node to node test license, 10 concurrent real services tests
(requires XR2000 or XRPi2), and 2 concurrent user licenses

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920-2404

Hawkeye, 100 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management system, 100 endpoint
(sw or hw) registration & use, 300 pairs node to node tests license, 25 concurrent real services tests
(requires XR2000 or XRPi2), and 5 concurrent user licenses

920-2405

Hawkeye, 200 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management, 200 endpoint (sw or
hw) registration & use, 1200 pairs node to node tests license, 50 concurrent real services tests (requires
XR2000 or XRPi2), and 5 concurrent user licenses

920-2406

Hawkeye, 400 Endpoint Solution Bundle Includes: Hawkeye central management system, 400 endpoint
(sw or hw) registration & use, 1800 pairs node to node tests license, 100 concurrent real services tests
(requires XR2000 or XRPi2), and 10 concurrent user licenses

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