Spirent Communications (News - Alert), a provider of network testing and service assurance solutions, recently announced partnership with cPacket Networks to offer network monitoring products for the emerging high speed data center and cloud infrastructure markets.
cPacket (News - Alert) delivers innovative chips and hardware-software subsystems for complete packet inspection with applications for monitoring, security, test, measurement, and lawful intercept,
Under the terms of the partnership, Spirent will extend its live Ethernet network testing solutions with advanced products that incorporate cPacket technology and provide real time, on the fly, traffic aggregation/de-aggregation, and advanced packet filtering, company officials said.
cPacket's Pervasive Network Intelligence technology makes it the ideal solution for aggregation, filtering, replication, load balancing, and real time reporting, they added.
The integrated product line is already available from Spirent.
“High speed network infrastructure, data centers, and cloud computing are growing markets in which network and service reliability are critical to ensuring user satisfaction and maintaining SLAs, are important and growth markets,” said Sean Yarborough, senior director of Strategy & Business Development at Spirent, in a statement.
“cPacket's real-time inspection, monitoring, and aggregation capabilities combined with Spirent expertise in data center and cloud computing testing ensures that we are offering the best solution to address customers' needs,” Yarborough added.
According to Rony Kay, cPacket founder and CEO, this collaboration helps customers address the increasing market needs for real time network visibility and performance monitoring of their networks.
Spirent has an extensive portfolio of solutions to test data centers, high speed Ethernet networks and services, 3G/4G wireless networks and devices, network security, and global navigation satellite systems.
Recently the company announced that a major network equipment manufacturer has installed the Spirent SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator for testing beamforming capabilities of Time Domain-Long Term Evolution or “TD-LTE (News - Alert)” base stations at its laboratories in Shanghai, China.
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