cPacket also announced today that it has added gap detection as a feature to its Intelligent Monitoring Fabric. For example, when targeted at financial services, gap detection identifies missing packets at critical market feeds for equity pricing. These gaps correlate with missing data that prevents investors from making profitable trading decisions. Historically, detecting such problems was after-the-fact (vs. real-time) and required expensive specialized tools. cPacket's integrated gap-detection feature identifies the telltale signs of imminent issues in real-time, and eliminates the expensive troubleshooting process after-the-fact. The integrated visibility allows system administrators to identify exactly where a gap occurred, and provides immediate access to "evidence" based on automatic capture of the specific packets before and after the event.
"Even though the migration to 40G started a few years ago, network engineers responsible for delivering high quality of user-experience are still at the early stages of leveraging high-fidelity real-time intelligence," said Kyle Rosenthal, CEO of TachTech, a leading global IT Solutions provider. "The legacy centralized architecture for network visibility ends up being costly and unsuccessful in complex high-speed environments -- they simply don't scale architecturally and are not cost-effective. Often, after feeling the pain with the legacy approach, customers find themselves looking for a better solution."
Distributed Network Intelligence is Key to Real-Time Problem Identification
As organizations move to pervasive 40G in both the core and along the network edge, the ability to reliably monitor every link at full line rate becomes a challenge that centralized monitoring architectures cannot handle. Built around legacy bottleneck-by-design architecture for after-the-fact analysis (including first-generation performance monitoring, packet aggregation and log management solutions), these tools lack real-time capabilities and rely on metrics that are not correlated with the actual application's behavior.
cPacket's Intelligent Monitoring Fabric and the cVu 3240NG address the emerging challenges for better operational intelligence, with distributed, real-time diagnostics that proactively mitigate network issues that can cause downtime, revenue loss, and poor end-user experience. cPacket's Next Generation Monitoring Architecture outperforms centralized legacy approaches by performing intelligent distributed analytics "close to the wire," thus eliminating the bottlenecks of legacy architectures.
"Legacy network performance monitoring providers are struggling with an inherent issue: as the market is shifting to higher-speed networks, such as 40G, the historical approach for performance monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting in those high-speed networks does not scale," said Rony Kay, founder, President and CTO of cPacket Networks. "The increasing gap between the growing challenges, and the capabilities of legacy centralized solutions, makes our Distributed Intelligence increasingly relevant. We are leading the charge for distributed, real-time monitoring."
