Imagine what would happen if the governor of one state got to change all the laws for the whole country for a day, without the other states or territories ever knowing about it. And then the next day, another governor gets to do the same. And then another. Such foreseeable chaos is precisely what happens when multiple IT or security administrators define traffic filtering policies without some overarching intelligence keeping tabs on who’s doing what. Each user acts from their own unique perspec...

Please join NMSaaS CTO John Olson for a demonstration of how NMSaaS can help your business break into the high-value enterprise MSP market. NMSaaS is a highly-scalable platform for Service Providers looking to break into the enterprise market. With NMSaaS you can: 1. Offer world class Network Discovery and Asset Management (vulnerability and lifecycle management) 2. Backup, Configure, and Policy Check network device configurations 3. Monitor high-value IT devices like Core Routers, Switches, Fir...

Join Dr. David Hock, Senior Consultant R&D, and Eduardo González, Developer & Consultant, for a Webinar on “The new StableNet® Mobile App”. This Webinar will provide insight into: How will the StableNet® Mobile App make your life easier? How are Apple™ Swift and the StableNet® REST API maximizing the user experience? What functionality does the StableNet® Mobile App bring to your fingertips? [Live Demo] When can you get the Mobile App for your StableNet® infrastructure? A recording of th...

An important factor in improving network visibility is the ability to pass the correct data to monitoring tools. Otherwise, it becomes very expensive and aggravating for most enterprises to sift through the enormous amounts of data packets being transmitted (now and in the near future). Bandwidth requirements are projected to continue increasing for the foreseeable future – so you may want to prepare now. As your bandwidth needs increase, complexity increases due to more equipment being added to...

Infosim®, a leading manufacturer of automated Service Fulfillment and Service Assurance solutions for Telcos, ISPs, MSPs and Corporations, today announced a proprietary new technology called Dynamic Rule Generation (DRG) with StableNet® 7. The challenge: The legacy Fault Management approach includes a built-in dilemma: Scalability vs. Aggregation. On the one hand, it is unfeasible to pre-create all possible rules while on the other hand, not having enough rules will leave NOC personnel with insu...

Network Instruments study shows that network engineers are spending more of their day responding to breaches and deploying security controls. This should come as no big surprise to most network teams. As security breaches and threats proliferate, they're spending a lot of time dealing with security issues, according to a study released Monday. Network Instruments' eighth annual state of the network report shows that network engineers are increasingly consumed with security chores, including inve...

Trying to detect intrusions in your network and extracting data from your network is a tricky business. Deep insight requires a deep understanding of the context of your network traffic—where are connections coming from, where are they going, and what are the specific applications in use. Without this breadth of insight, you can’t take action to stop and remediate attacks, especially from Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). To see how Ixia helps its customers gain this actionable insight into the...

End user experience & QoS are consistently ranked at the top of priorities for Network Management teams today. According to research over 60% of companies today say that VoIP is present in a significant amount of their networks, this is the same case with streaming media within the organization. As you can see having effective end user experience testing is vital to any business. If you have a service model, whether you’re an actual service provider like a 3rd party or you’re a corporation w...

The Future of Network Performance Management: How to take advantage of Automation, Cloud and IoT!Join Dr. Stefan Köhler, CEO Infosim and a leading authority in the network management field for a Webinar on The Future of Network Performance Management. This Webinar will provide insight into: Next Generation Automated Fault Management How to fix your network issues fast and efficiently using automation? How to get to the next level of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) with Dynamic Rule Gene...

Network administrators can streamline the troubleshooting process by deploying automated monitoring systems. With automated monitoring in place, admins can get early warnings about emerging problems and address them before the adverse effects continue for too long. In addition, automated monitoring can help maintain up to date information about network configuration and devices on the network that can be essential for diagnosing network performance problems. An automated network monitoring regim...

When chasing security or performance issues in a data center, the last thing you need is packet loss in your visibility fabric. In this blog post I will focus on the importance of how to deal with multiple tools with different but overlapping needs. Dealing with overlapping filters is critical, in both small and large visibility fabrics. Lost packets occur when filter overlaps are not properly considered. Ixia’s NTO is the only visibility platform that dynamically deals with all overlaps to ensu...

NetFlow Auditor is a complete and flexible toolkit for flow based network analysis, which includes real-time analysis, long-term trending and base-lining. NetFlow Auditor uses NetFlow based analysis as opposed to the traditional network analysis products which focus on the health of network gateway devices with basic information and overview trends. Netflow analysis looks at end-to-end performance using a technological approach that is largely independent of the underlying network infrastructure...

When it comes to IT services, business value and user satisfaction are both dependent upon the server, network, and applications all working together seamlessly. Failure to adequately monitor each of these and their interactions, means that you could be flying blind – susceptible to degraded service levels. While application and network monitoring receive a lot of the attention, it is important to also understand what’s going on with the server. Virtualization changes the face of service deliver...

Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of application performance and security resilience solutions, announced global survey results demonstrating that while most companies believe virtualization technology is a strategic priority, there are clear risks that need to be addressed. Ixia surveyed more than 430 targeted respondents in South and North America (50 percent), APAC (26 percent) and EMEA (24 percent). The accompanying report titled, The State of Virtualization for Visibility Architecture...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) are two terms that have garnered a great deal of attention in the Telco market over the last couple of years. However, before actually adopting SDN/NFV, several challenges have to be mastered. This article discusses those challenges and explains why StableNet® is the right solution to address them. SDN and NFV are both very promising approaches. The main objectives are to increase the flexibility of the control and to r...

With high profile attacks from 2014 still fresh on the minds of IT professionals and almost half of companies being victims of an attack during the last year, it’s not surprising that security teams are seeking additional resources to augment defenses and investigate attacks. As IT resources shift to security, network teams are finding new roles in the battle to protect network data. To be an effective asset in the battle, it’s critical to understand the involvement and roles of network professi...

I was recently at a conference where the topic of network security came up again, like it always does. It seems like there might be a little more attention on it now, not really due to the number of breaches—although that plays into a little—but more because companies are being held accountable for allowing the breaches. Examples include Target (where both the CIO and CEO got fired over that breach in 2013) and the fact that the FCC and FTC are fining companies (like YourTel America, TerraCom, P...

Are footprint size, price, scalability and ease of deployment causing disruptions in your monitoring strategy? Then you need to join Marius Heuler, CTO Infosim for a Webinar and Live Demo on the "StableNet® Embedded Agent (SNEA) Cloud Solution". We will introduce the StableNet® Embedded Agent which has the smallest footprint in the market. We are talking about a device that will literally fit in your shirt pocket! We offer it at the best cost-performance ratio in the market! One of our...

SDN - A Promising Approach for Next Generation Networks Recently, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become a very popular term in the area of communication networks. The key idea of SDN is to introduce a separation of the control plane and the data plane of a communication network. The control plane is removed from the normal network elements into typically centralized control components. The normal elements can be replaced by simpler and therefore cheaper off-the-shelf devices that are only...

Expanding Services Monitoring to Small sites has always been a challenge, especially in environments where there are large numbers of relatively small sites. While these sites may be physically ‘small’ they are all very important to the overall business service delivery. This model includes enterprise businesses like retail, branch based financial organizations, educational institutions, as well as providers who deliver services to home and small office. Some of the challenges to monitoring thes...