Meeting organizations' increased need for speed, Network Instruments has announced integrated support for 10GbE across its entire product line.
The move makes the company the first to deliver real-time analysis, monitoring and reporting of full-duplex 10GbE networks across all products, according to the company.
The refurbished systems provide full-duplex capture, monitoring and analysis at line rate. Admins can monitor and manage 10GbE networks with over 30 real-time statistics, set alarms to proactively notify on potential problems, and gather long-term trending and reporting.
In addition, features such as application analysis provide key application performance statistics, granular drill-down capabilities to view session-by-session communications, and analysis to quickly diagnose application issues or policy violations.
InfoWorld Test Center Contributing Editor Brian Chee, who is at Interop NY trade show where the announcement was made, had a chance to talk with Douglas Smith, Network Instruments' CE0. "We saw 10gig coming fairly early on and saw 10gig as the next logical step," Smith said of the company's 10GbE move.
Market for 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching equipment reached $302 million in the second quarter of this year. At $302 million, revenue is on pace for more than a billion-dollar annual run rate, according to Dell'Oro Group research.
A networking guru, Chee writes of Network Instruments' line:
"The first really big step came when the industry first started the move to gigabit and the change to full duplex monitoring systems. That experience is reflected by a unified code set through the entire Network Instruments product line. This commitment to a unified code set means that Network Instruments is able to release 10gig on their entire product line instead of a long release cycle as development groups struggle with a heterogeneous product line.The secret sauce is Network Instruments investment in their NIDNA (Network Instruments Distributed Network Architecture) is their hardware investment that gives them the ability to continue to keep up with line speed packet capture.
Douglas admits that he's an engineer at heart and that's reflected in the company attention to the details of the task. Forensics is a big part of who Network Instruments is and their ability to do stream reconstruction for e-mail and Web forensics is an important feature for network forensics."
(Watch for Brian's reports from InterOP New York in his Geeks in Paradise blog.)
Enabling the 10-gig support in the products is the company's custom-engineered 10GbE capture card designed exclusively by the company.
Network Instruments' new appliances include the 10GbE Probe Appliance, the GigaStor-10 GbE for historical analysis, and the newly released all-in-one 10 GbE analysis system, which includes a local console for portability and isolated troubleshooting.
Posted by Ted Samson on September 19, 2006 12:51 PM
