Source: www.voip-news.com

There is a new suite of performance monitoring service from Tata Communications that offers integrated, end-to-end, network and application performance monitoring in three choices of service: Network Visibility, Application Visibility and Voice over IP Visibility.

“As global enterprises depend highly on their IT infrastructure to deliver quality applications to end-users, they require efficient, end-to-end view of network and application performance. To that end, Application Performance Visibility Service facilitates improved performance and management of all network elements, including managing remote sites from central locations, while reducing costs and delivering detailed reports for wise capacity planning decisions,” said Genius Wong, Senior Vice President, Global IP and VPN services for Tata Communications. “This is especially relevant now during the global, economic crisis.”

Here’s the detes:

Application Performance Visibility Service equips IT managers with in-depth, real-time, historical data on every network site. The service offers comprehensive views across the infrastructure (Layers 1 – 7), that multiple users can share simultaneously to plan capacity, create reports, troubleshoot performance problems, and reduce mean time to resolve (MTTR). Enterprises can monitor events across the infrastructure, including the local loop, port, site-to-site circuit, application, and server performance. In addition, they can test performance of business-critical network applications before rolling them out into production. In-depth visibility options provided by this service can be combined with the Application Performance Optimization Services launched in 2008, which offer optimization, compression, and acceleration features for a complete WAN and application performance management solution.

Tata Communications will be the first Indian-based provider to offer integrated network and application monitoring services.

Application Performance Visibility Service includes cost-effective, scalable architecture based on Fluke Networks’ proven Visual Performance Manager Platform, a complete system for monitoring end-to-end performance of applications and services across the enterprise. While real-time monitoring occurs, this platform archives network, server and application data in a back-end database that delivers a holistic view of enterprise performance with up-to-the-second granularity.

Source: www.voip-news.com

Citrus is now available for Gigamon’s GigaVue Data Access Switch. The GUI doesn’t require downloading or applets to access fast network switch configuration and control via Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. It brings connectivity to out-of-band monitoring tools including VoIP analyzers.

The Citrus GUI has Secure Socket Layer encryption so that access can be gained from any PC without security concerns.

“As networks, monitoring tools, and monitoring functions have become increasingly complex and distributed, the need for easy configuration and management from a single interface has become essential. Citrus fulfills this requirement better than anything on the market today,” said Patrick Leong, Gigamon’s chief technical officer. “We consider Citrus to be a breakthrough in the field of packet monitoring, particularly because it simplifies so many time-consuming tasks.”

According to Gigamon:

The Citrus GUI brings an even higher level of power to the GigaVUE, a modular, packet-aware device that has transformed the network monitoring product category. GigaVUE switches provide dynamic connectivity for a large number of out-of-band monitoring tools such as intrusion detection systems, data recorders, VoIP analyzers and other devices, making fulfillment of compliance, analysis, troubleshooting and security of the production network faster and less burdensome. Its secure, customizable “data socket” orientation allows users to divide traffic and distribute packets to different GigE or 10 GigE tools according to a variety of power and flexible map and filter rules.

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Cupertino, Calif. – November 12, 2007 – Packeteer® (NASDAQ: PKTR), the global leader in WAN application delivery, today announced the release of new application classification plug-ins that enable customers to automatically identity and control online games such as Halo 3, which access Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, as well as MSN Instant Messaging (IM), Video and BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic that can consume enormous amounts of network bandwidth and negatively impact the performance of critical applications for end users. With these new plug-ins, Packeteer PacketShaper® and iShaper™ appliances can now measure and contain the impact of three extremely prevalent recreational applications that run the risk of crippling enterprise and university networks.

"As organizations seek to ensure high-performance application delivery with network optimization and acceleration tools, the increased traffic of new and tremendously popular recreational applications is running counter to that effort," says Peter Sevcik, president of NetForecast, an internationally recognized engineering consulting company that benchmarks, analyzes, and improves the performance of networked data, voice, and video applications. "While businesses may actually want to enable some video or P2P traffic, unchecked gaming, P2P and video downloads are among the biggest drains on corporate and college networks. This can lead to poor productivity, wasted network bandwidth and sluggish performance of critical applications. A complete application delivery strategy must first provide granular visibility so organizations can decide which applications are mission critical and which are not."

Gaming applications such as Halo 3, file sharing programs such as BitTorrent and instant messaging applications using IP-based video are now widely downloaded and accessed by users that work across all types of organizations, from colleges to corporations to government agencies. Whether or not an organization can control and limit the impact of these applications is first determined by their ability to discover them. At the same time, accurate discovery of these applications is also key to ensuring that acceleration technology is not mistakenly applied. Data transfer techniques that do not first identify all network traffic can actually accelerate recreational applications to the detriment of business transactions.

Packeteer’s unique network optimization and acceleration platform can discover, monitor and prioritize the performance of over 600 applications and protocols. By continually expanding its market-leading base of application classification plug-ins, Packeteer automatically detects, monitors and optimizes a wide range of application and protocol categories that include client/server, content delivery, database and ERP, directory services, e-mail and collaboration, peer-to-peer, and voice over IP. Through this application intelligence and market-leading acceleration and optimization technology, Packeteer provides its customers with a set of tools that truly delivers a "network that thinks."

The new plug-ins are downloadable software modules that seamlessly integrate with Packeteer’s application classification architecture and include application visibility, monitoring and control for:

• Xbox Live network downloads such as Halo 3, one of the world’s most popular video games with 5.2 million copies currently in use;
• MSN IM Video, which offers high quality, synchronized video as part of MSN’s instant messaging services, currently used by 100 million people worldwide;
• BitTorrent, a global standard for delivering P2P file downloads for 150 million users worldwide.

New Plug-In Availability

All new plug-ins are available immediately to licensed/subscribing customers at www.packeteer.com/support/down_main.cfm.