Tier 1 Service Providers

Faced with the daunting prospect of cost-effectively monitoring their high speed multi-service networks, Tier 1 service providers continue to turn to Endace to meet the requirements; from E1/T1 to 40G.

With bandwidth pricing at a plateau, customers are now judging service providers more on the quality of service and the overall experience gained. In turn, your network monitoring must now encompass both objective and subjective measurement techniques. Monitoring solutions should be sought that not only accurately, and completely, oversee their networks but also provide a customer window into the quality of services being delivered.

Coupled with the continued rise in backbone networking speeds, and the move to network architectures that consciously separate infrastructure from applications, hardware from software, this might well be the time for you to consider a refresh of your monitoring solution. Not sure that you have an issue? Endace’s capture/replay solutions can be used to stress-test your network for what-if analysis, traffic simulation and performance benchmarking.

At Endace, our portfolio and vision is built on the philosophy that monitoring equipment should be:

• permanently and widely deployed
• intuitive to operate
• require the minimal amount of high-performance hardware to drive your preferred range of monitoring applications, and
• not cost more than the network being monitored!

Endace has been selected by Tier 1 carriers worldwide as the bedrock for their high performance monitoring infrastructure. Our DAG® cards are used to unobtrusively capture every packet on any network interface and write to memory at wire speed. From there, traffic can be processed and analyzed as required, with customers building their own monitoring applications or employing our partners’ solutions. Over the years, we have built a complete range of DAG® cards that feature interfaces from E1 and T1 through Ethernet, Sonet and SDH, all the way up to OC-768.

In other instances, service providers have sought complete solutions directly from Endace: Our NinjaBox-Z platform has helped to shore up network security in instances where in-situ Intrusion Detection Systems were crumbling under the strain of higher network speeds and packet rates. And our 40G1 NinjaProbe has provided packet capture at the highest possible backbone speeds.

But for operators looking to completely consolidate their monitoring infrastructure, NinjaProbe is the quickest, most comprehensive and affordable path to a permanently deployed solution; from edge to core. Acting as a multi-function probe and sensor, NinjaProbe builds on the DAG® card’s guaranteed packet capture technology to track every packet on your high speed network, while simultaneously driving a complete suite of monitoring applications. Utilizing Endace’s exclusive SmartDecode functionality, NinjaProbe can process/rule-match traffic on-platform or forward filtered data to either our own NinjaProbe CACE Pilot Network Analyzer or your own choice of 3rd party application.