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VSS Monitoring, a provider of network packet brokers (NPBs), provides a visionary, systems-based approach to optimizing and scaling the connectivity between network switching and the entire network intelligence ecosystem of analytics, inline security, and WAN acceleration tools.

GL Communications, a provider of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, wireless, IP and VoIP networks, has just unveiled its MC-MLPPP Analyzer and Emulator software. Similar to a network packet broker, this offering emulates and analyzes Point-to-Point (PPP), Multi-Link Point-to-Point (MLPPP), and Multi-Class MLPPP protocols.

FireMon has been at the vanguard of integrating risk analysis with configuration management, enforcement and auditing of network devices, the company said. These new capabilities allow operations and security personnel to drill deeper and better understand network packet broker behavior and outlying device or policy factors that can affect security posture or performance.

Pasternack Enterprises, Inc. has unveiled its new line of vector network analyzer calibration kits, which provide the RF components required to allow reliable and accurate error corrected measurements of devices under test (DUT), with the help of a VNA from DC to 26.5 GHz in one convenient kit. A network analyzer measures the network parameters of electrical networks.

Moving to IPv6 isn't easy, and companies on the Internet will need lots of help in doing so. Array Networks has therefore successfully participated in the world's biggest IPv6 transition technology test.

NETGEAR, Inc., a global networking company, has selected MaxLinear's MxL267 Full-Spectrum Capture digital cable front-end receiver for a new family of DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems and gateways.

Blue Coat Systems Inc., a company that provides Web security and optimization, recently announced an agreement to acquire Crossbeam Systems, Inc., a company that provides scalable network security. The acquisition will allow Blue Coat to optimize its networks and further expand its business operations.

Verizon, a company that delivers broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services, was recently positioned in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner's new report, Magic Quadrant for Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers, for the sixth consecutive year.