Vendor Profile - Anue Systems is the market and technology leader in network visibility solutions. The Austin, Texas based company was founded in 2002 and is a leading provider of Network Emulation and Tool Aggregation solutions. The world’s leading network equipment vendors, enterprises, and service providers use Anue Network Emulators to see and test the real impact of the wide area network on networked applications. Fortune 2000 companies use the Anue 5200 Series Tool Aggregator to provide the visibility that network monitoring tools in their data centers need, in order to secure and monitor networked applications. Anue Systems has over 500 customers worldwide.
July 14, 2009
WAN Validation Testing (by Tommy Landry and Steve Mitchell)
If you are like most organizations in today's network-centric world, you need to ensure that your applications run properly over private and public Wide Area Networks (WANs) or clouds. This is particularly challenging for applications that are sensitive to network conditions, such as real-time transactions, enterprise storage, streaming media, IPTV, and VoIP.
The only way to have confidence that a particular application, solution, or service will operate within acceptable performance parameters is to test under realistic expected (or even unexpected) production network conditions prior to deployment. Conditions such as latency, bandwidth limitations, bit errors, dropped packets, and packet jitter all impact application performance. Fortunately, you can achieve this goal by emulating your own network environment in a lab.
Every day we discuss LAN testing methods in many hundreds of ways, but we can often forget that we all use the WAN to transport all that data outside of our LAN world. WAN conditions such as latency, bandwidth limitations, and jitter all impact application performance. Testing how your applications will run on the WAN is essential, as discussed by Steve Mitchell of the F5 Team.
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June 21, 2009
Powering Network Visibility (by Chip Webb)
Author Profile - Charles "Chip" Webb is the CTO of Anue Systems. Chip was most recently Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced Video and Data Networking Department at Lucent Technologies. He has 14 years of experience in ASIC and board level design for video and high-speed data networking equipment. He was a member of the Emmy Award winning team that developed the first ATSC HDTV system and subsequently led the development of the first all-digital 8-VSB demodulator IC for HDTV broadcast. More recently, Mr. Webb led the development of several successful ASICs for Sonet/SDH and G.709 applications. Chip holds a Bachelor's degree Cum Laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master's Degree from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering and is a member of Tau Beta Pi . He has co-authored five technical papers and has been granted twelve patents, with four more pending.
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March 15, 2009
What To Do When Running Out of Taps/SPAN Ports (by Tommy Landry)
To achieve competing network management objectives, IT strategists have had to turn to a wide variety of monitoring tools, including application monitors, IDS/IPS/IDP, VoIP Analyzers, Data Recorders, Compliance Auditors, and Protocol Analyzers (“Sniffers”), each tasked with meeting a particular monitoring need
At the same time, businesses are finding themselves with a lack of available SPAN and TAP ports for mirroring data to these tools, preventing companies from attaching tools to the right access points to get the visibility the business needs. This issue comes up frequently with security and network operations teams, with the teams competing for access points to deploy their various tools.
Tools such as physical layer switches and TAP replicators can allow sharing of access points by multiple tools. However, this only provides a partial solution, since those devices send all the traffic from each access point to all connected tools. For tools to be used most efficiently, each tool should only see the data that it needs to see to complete its assigned monitoring task.
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January 12, 2009
How to Monitor 10G Networks with 1G Tools (by Tommy Landry)
The shift to 10G networks is under way. According to the Network Observations blog, over half of enterprises (2500+ users) should have made the shift to 10G networks by the end of 2008. The trend was not just limited to the United States, as it is also reported that close to 25% of global businesses will have joined the race to 10G last year.
With the move to 10G, many IT strategists are concerned about whether they will need to upgrade the many different types of network and application monitoring tools that they have already purchased. These business critical tools include: application monitors, intrusion detection systems, compliance tools, data recorders, VOIP monitors, and protocol analyzers. Few organizations have the budget to upgrade some, let alone all of these tools.
Imagine a world where you can use your 1G tools to monitor a 10G network.
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December 01, 2008
More Aggregation Less Aggravation (by Tommy Landry)
With tighter budgets, organizations are being asked to do “more with less”. At the same time, networks and applications continue to increase in complexity, and monitoring is critical for securely ensuring performance, reliability, and availability metrics are sustained. Technology strategists are challenged to provide the appropriate monitoring coverage with limited budgets.
We can’t control the economy or its current challenges, but we can control how we let it affect our businesses. In these days where technology strategists are being asked to do “more with less,” solutions like tool aggregation become even more important.
Get the most out of your network and application monitoring tools with the Anue 5200 Series Tool Aggregator.
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November 26, 2008
LMTV #2 - Tool Aggregator from Anue Systems
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