Daily Network Monitor

WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Network monitoring appliance vendor Netmon Inc. is pleased to announce a distribution partnership with PCMall, Inc., a national provider of technology solutions for business, government and educational institutions.

Under the new arrangement, PCMall will provide Netmon products to its large base of corporate, government and institutional customers through its various web properties, which include www.pcmall.com, www.pcmallgov.com, and www.onsale.com.

“Our appliances provide network administrators with a comprehensive view of their critical infrastructure,” according to Jason Pomerleau, Product Manager for Netmon Inc, “Imagine adding hundreds of pairs of eyes to your network, each working 24 hours a day to monitor key performance and operational metrics.” A built-in email and pager alert system is designed to keep administrators informed of important events which require attention or intervention.

Describing the new partnership as a “win-win proposition for all parties” Netmon President Eric Lamoureux states, “PCMall customers will now be able to purchase our products through a vendor they already know and trust, and we in turn are able to make our products accessible to a larger audience.”

Germany’s Siemens has set a speed record for electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic cable, it said Wednesday, opening the possibility of cheaper Internet and data networks.

Siemens said in a statement that it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second–roughly two full DVDs per second–and sent it over a single optical fiber channel in a 100-mile U.S. network, the first time outside of a laboratory.

Online games, music and video downloads are generating increasing amounts of Internet traffic, creating a need for ever-faster and affordable transmission.

The test, two-and-a-half times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance per channel, was done in cooperation with Germany’s Micram Microelectronic, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications and the Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology.

Siemens said the advantage of its method of using electrical processing only was that it removed the need to split signals into multiple signals of lower data rates to avoid bottlenecks. Such bottlenecks make transmissions slower and more expensive.

“Such a system would be particularly interesting for the future 100-Gigabit Ethernet, on which the telecommunication providers are currently working,” Siemens said.

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Solera Networks, Inc., has introduced a new hardware product; for managing packet recorders distributed throughout a network. Here is an excerpted version of the press release that announced the product.

Control Center software for its packet recorder appliances. This initial release of the web-based interface software allows network administrators and security analysts to:

- Select, start, and stop physical capture, virtual replay, and/or regeneration processes
- Create and apply filters to the network data stream before capture or upon replay
- View graphical and numerical status of key system metrics
- Navigate and download PCAP files or PCAP header files of stored network data
- Create custom PCAP files selected by date-time or file size from the stored data
- Issue console commands to the appliance
- Add and manage users and user rights

Based on proprietary system software and the DS infinite storage file system, Solera Networks DS appliances achieve over 2X the sustainable capture and stream to disk rates of competitive products and can directly address disk storage in excess of 240 TB.

The DS series appliances capture LAN and WAN traffic of all types including T1, E1, digital, T3, DS3, E3, VoIP, HSSI, and all other packetized transport protocols. Up to 10 capture or regeneration ports can be configured on each device with 10/100, GigE, 10GbE, or Fiber Channel adapters.”