Spirent Communications, cPacket Networks Partner to Power Robust Network Packet Broker Functionality

By Jamie Epstein, TMCnet Web Editor

Highlighted for being an added component to the ongoing joint solution that network packet broker (NPB) provider VSS Monitoring and Spirent (News - Alert) Communications power with common sales distribution partners, it was recently revealed that cPacket Networks has formed a strategic alliance with Spirent. The goal of the newly formed partnership is to enable Spirent to enhance the capabilities powered via its Ethernet network testing suite to incorporate cPacket (News - Alert) innovations that can yield real-time traffic aggregation/ de-aggregation as well as advanced packet filtering.

“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.”

As more and more businesses all over the globe seek reliable solutions to drive network visibility and performance monitoring of their corporate infrastructures, collaborations like the one mentioned above will help consumers see every single action taking place on their network, allowing them to quickly fix small problems before they become major issues. In turn, this could eliminate the chance of network downtime something that could be catastrophic for any organization.

In fact, back in April, VSS Monitoring (News - Alert) joined hands with the TOYO Corporation of Japan to expand its footprint into the Asia Pacific region. Serving as a trusted channel partner, TOYO will resell the complete VSS vBroker NPB system family, including the vBroker, vProtector, and vInspector product offerings.

In an exclusive interview with TMCnet, Rob Markovich (News - Alert), SVP of sales and marketing, VSS Monitoring commented, “TOYO is also a major distribution partner for Spirent product solutions, and TOYO has been successful in combining solutions from Spirent and VSS Monitoring for high-speed network infrastructure, data centers, and cloud computing applications to large service providers and enterprises in Japan. VSS Monitoring continues to promote joint solutions through common distribution partners with Spirent.”

Hence, this partnership is not only beneficial to the twosome but also to the network packet broker specialist who is looking to better cater to growing markets that heavily depend upon network and service reliability to deliver a satisfactory end-user experience. As the NPB space continues to garner attention, major companies coming together will likely be a trend going forward.

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