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September 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Network Instruments Announce 10Gig

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As you may have seen in the Test Center blog, our friends at Network Instruments annouced 10gig support for their Observer product line.

So I just had to wander across the hall at Interop New York to corner Douglas Smith the CEO. Being a fellow propeller head, Douglas and I had a great time talking about some of the changes we had both seen in the market place. Here's a few of the highlights:

InfoWorld: Just why has there been a mad rush by the networking monitoring industry towards rapid adoption of 10 gig?

Douglas: It's really not a rush, the big change in the industry was when gigabit ethernet first showed up. That change forced the monitoring industry to implement full duplex monitoring as opposed to the legacy half duplex world common in the 10mb/sec and then the 100mb/sec world. So once the industry got the hang of being full duplex, 10 gig is really just faster. The secret sauce is more in the capture hardware.

InfoWorld: So why the hardware?

Douglas: Very early on we made a significant investment in capture hardware and being able to keep up with line speed capture, even on 10 gig really requires a significant investment in development.

InfoWorld: So is 10gig just on observer?

Douglas: Unlike some of our competitors, we made an early investment in the concept of a common code base. So yesterday when we made the annoucement; we are actually saying that 10gig is now available across our product line.

InfoWorld: Could you elaborate on that?

Douglas: Our investment has been in the Network Instruments Distributed Network Architecture (NIDNA) is the basis for our common code architecture and gives us a level of integration many of our competitors can only dream of.

So if you're in the New York area, come on down to the Javits Center for the Interop show. Drop by the Network Instrument's booth and have a chat with Douglas on his vision for Network Instruments. Get him started on forensics and have fun listening...

/brian chee

Posted by Brian Chee on September 19, 2006 12:39 PM

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