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SuperComm 2009: Brocade, Ixia, NTT, Mu Dynamics, Cisco, and NetOptics: Page 2 of 2

Visiting vendors and talking to product managers is the only reason I go to shows. On occasion, I participate in a panel or give a presentation, but what I really want to do is see what vendors have cooking. SuperComm, while not an enterprise show, has quite a few vendors that service both carriers and enterprises, and often products tend to flow from the carrier to enterprise market as bandwidth demands rise. Keeping an eye on what they are doing tells us where the enterprise may be heading.
Mike Fratto
October 24, 2009

Cisco didn't have a spot on the floor, but in their suite we got to talking about traffic trends in service provider networks and the impact on enterprises. Cisco has been talking for a long time about the growth of traffic, particularly in voice and video and the impact on the Internet. Those traffic trends are making themselves known in the enterprises where they are seeing more companies deploying service provider devices like the ASR9000 and CRS routers in enterprise networks.

Finally, Netoptics released a new 10GB network tap that can forward frames in one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many fashion and even apply filter rules based on header data up to and including layer 4. Filtering allows you to send only the traffic you are interested in to specific monitoring appliances and since the device can be installed out of band, it has no impact on the network. The taps have a web UI as well as a CLI for configuration and management. My only suggestion for them is to work on a XML interface so that the tap can be easily integrated with other network management applications.

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