ONPATH and Simena Partner to Offer PFS switch for High Performance Monitoring

The inescapable of presence of network latencies and other pitfalls can adversely affect the beneficial effects of job transfer.  Under a strategic partnership, ONPATH Technologies, a company in scalable connectivity and monitoring solutions for high performance networks, and Simena (News - Alert), LLC, a company in network monitoring and testing solutions, have added latency aggregation, filtering, and monitoring switch, the Simena Packet Flow Switch (PFS) into ONPATH's UCS suite.

According to a press release, this PFS switch employs Layer 2-4 technology to aggregate, filter, disseminate, and load-balance network traffic to a variety of devices, including monitoring, measurement, and security tools. It allows customers to optimize the performance and investment of these expensive tools, while allowing network managers to reduce cost by centralizing operations, monitoring services, and enhancing network security.

The Packet Flow Switch delivers aggregation of several traffic streams to a single network tool, packet filtering to enable users to pick and choose specific packets to be forwarded, scaling up to 100,000 ports when used in conjunction with the UCS, packet slicing to enable users to forward only the configurable portions of a packet, increasing throughput and maximizing the performance of attached monitoring systems, and port tagging to mark packets with the port IDs where they are received, enabling the identification of packet origins.

Brian McCann, CEO of ONPATH said that, “The company has an aggressive roadmap of product innovation, and the PFS is the perfect complement to our UCS family, enabling us  to move up the stack from Layer 1 through Layer 4, in order to deliver our customers a more complete suite of network monitoring and connectivity solutions.”

With the addition of the Simena's PFS to ONPATH's Physical Layer product suite, the UCS is now expanded to provide the complete Layer 1 through 4 connectivity and monitoring solution across Enterprise and Federal applications.  The ONPATH solution offers monitoring of performance and security applications across virtually any network infrastructure.

Sezen Uysal, president of Simena said that offering the PFS as part of the UCS family ensures that customers can monitor their network application performance at a higher level, with complete confidence, lowest latency, and ultimate accuracy.

In other company news, TMCnet reported that ONPATH Technologies has released HorizON 2.2, the latest version of its management and network monitoring software, to offer network intelligence, user simplicity and system security.