cPacket Networks Teams with Riverbed to Improve Network Visibility and Monitoring Accuracy

A new joint solution delivering accurate timestamping and traffic analysis for troubleshooting network and application challenges was announced by cPacket Networks and Riverbed (News - Alert) Cascade. cPacket Networks providers of cost-effective network monitoring and response solutions and Riverbed Cascade specializes in WAN optimization, network performance management and cloud storage solutions.

The new joint solution which incorporates cPacket (News - Alert) Networks’ hardware timestamping solutions with the Riverbed Cascade application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution has been developed specifically for use within enterprise and financial industry IT environments.

In a release, Rony Kay, founder and CEO of cPacket Networks, said that, “Application and network-performance problems can have substantial negative impact on business operations. Embedding cPacket’s high precision timestamps into the Riverbed Cascade NPM solution enhances monitoring accuracy and helps solve IT performance issues quickly.”

The joint solution integrating the Riverbed Cascade Shark and the cPacket hardware timestamps, offers customers with advantages which include detailed and accurate application transaction and packet analysis. Increased visibility helps customers in managing fast and complex networks in particular networks of high performance global enterprises, financial services that are dependent on accurate forensic analysis and trending, root-cause analysis, post-event troubleshooting, as well as application performance analysis.

Data center and IT operation teams leveraging the Riverbed Cascade and cPacket’s cVu Traffic monitoring switches are provided with high precision time stamping which results in real-time visibility and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities for business critical services and performance-sensitive applications.  

Dmitri Vlachos, senior director of marketing and product management, Cascade Business Unit at Riverbed, said that, “Monitoring and troubleshooting many of today’s mission-critical financial applications requires precise and accurate nanosecond-level visibility into application traffic. cPacket’s cVu Traffic monitoring switches provide Cascade with hardware timestamps to aid in highly accurate measurements.”