Virtually any commercially available network monitoring system will meet the functional requirements of small to mid-sized businesses and public sector organizations. However, these systems vary widely on considerations such as ease of implementation and use, ongoing maintenance cost and effort, ease of remote deployment, and reliability of alert delivery—all based on system architecture.

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