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Network Performance Monitoring Key Issue at Interop

By Carrie Schmelkin
TMCnet Web Editor

In addition to exhibiting and networking at Interop (News - Alert) New York City a few weeks ago, network performance monitoring company Net Optics had a very important task to complete – addressing visibility issues in virtual environments with a specific focus on new techniques for increasing security with participants.

During a Net Optics’ (News - Alert) session at Interop, Net Optics’ Director of Cloud Solutions Ran Nahmias shared use cases involving VMware in real-world implementations, demonstrating how to solve lack of visibility and maintain or restore security as well as conduct regulatory compliance.

For the past 15 years, Net Optics has remained a dominant player in the network monitoring solutions space – acquiring more than 7,000 enterprise companies. However, over the past year, Net Optics has expanded its solutions for monitoring the physical infrastructure to solutions that also allow you to keep tabs on your virtual infrastructure. Since introducing its virtual technology the Phantom Virtual Tap, Net Optics has won multiple awards.

“From a customer perspective those solutions are very important and also unique because they allow users to build an architecture in which they can build their entire network monitoring infrastructure,” Sharon Besser (News - Alert), vice president of technology for Net Optics, told TMCnet at Interop.

Echoed Nahmias, “Customers were saying there were areas of computing that they couldn’t move over. With the Phantom Virtual Tap, we allow them to have the exact same visibility they are used to in the physical world. You have most talented experts in one location looking at the full picture instead of looking at separate parts. At the end of the day it’s the same infrastructure.”

For Net Optics, Interop was a chance to let the market know that the network monitoring company is determined to become a leader in the virtual environment as well.

In fact, the company recently expanded its Phantom Virtual Tap with family with Phantom HD appliance, which optimizes bandwidth utilization for global companies, service providers (SPs) and managed OEM SPs which offer services remotely.

“We’ve been committed to this space of network and monitoring the architecture and by introducing Phantom we have changed the landscape as now have solutions that can do both,” Besser  said. “We will continue to address those issues through additional platforms.”

Right now, Net Optics is proud that its platforms promote total visibility, meaning it does not matter if it’s copper, fiber, 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit, or virtual or physical, Net Optics can provide answers. In fact, everything that has to do with the network can be managed from a single place, according to company officials. 

Showing no signs of slowing down, last week Net Optics announced expanded reliability, accelerated switching speed, downtime protection, and other advances to the Director family of solutions enabled by the state-of-the-art Director Network Module DNM-101. All models of Director with the 5.0 upgrade support these new capabilities.