A U.S.-based Tier 1 telecommunications carrier has placed a $600,000 order for Endace’s NinjaProbe appliances. The Endace systems will monitor packet loss and sequence statistics for one of the carrier’s IP networks.

 

“We believe Endace was selected for our comprehensive packet capture capabilities and our willingness to tune the customer’s application for maximum performance,” said Mike Riley, CEO of Endace. “Against the backdrop of general economic uncertainty, the need for our solutions appears to remain strong, and we are pleased with our progress to date.”

 

For organizations that rely on their IP networks to do business, Endace provides traffic monitoring, latency measurement, network security and application acceleration solutions that capture inspect and report on every single data packet.

 

The company enables customers to be confident in their service performance, information security, and regulatory compliance. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the UK, USA and Singapore.

 

In June, Endace Limited announced that it is working with Voltaire to deliver passive monitoring capabilities for InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions in high performance computing (HPC) environments and data centers.

 

Endace is a major player in passive monitoring solutions with the Ninja InfiniBand portfolio providing an exclusive combination of manageable network taps, high speed capture platforms and analytical software.

 

Voltaire develops InfiniBand-based server and storage switching and software solutions that improve application performance and efficiency in data centers.

 

“Endace is first to market in delivering our passive monitoring solution for InfiniBand infrastructures,” said Steve Gleave, VP of marketing at Endace.

 

“While InfiniBand is well accepted in high-performance computing environments across multiple industries, there was a strong unmet need for performance monitoring tools – particularly in large, enterprise data centers. Our relationship with Voltaire will help bring Endace’s performance monitoring solutions to these customers worldwide,” added Gleave.

 

InfiniBand is an industry standard technology for the interconnection of HPC systems and enterprise applications. The combination of high bandwidths at 10 or 20 gigabits/second, low latency and scalability makes it the interconnect of choice to power many of the world's largest and fastest computer systems and enterprise data centers.

 

Voltaire builds on this technology to deliver director-class (i.e. large scale) switches, routers, adapters and software. Together Endace and Voltaire can now deliver solutions that passively capture traffic on single data rate (10 gigabits/second) and double data rate (20 gigabits/second) links, measure packet delay and jitter, and deliver total visibility across the complete network infrastructure, with zero impact on network performance.