SAN MATEO, Calif. -- VSS Monitoring, a leader in network packet brokers (NPBs), today announced that its NPB solutions integrate seamlessly with the Riverbed® Cascade® product family to further extend advanced network analysis and visibility for enterprises. VSS Monitoring also announced today a technology partnership with Riverbed Technology under the Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA) Program, to complement Riverbed Cascade products and deliver a network analysis and visibility solution with precision time stamping for service providers, government, and enterprise customers. As a result of this partnership and integration, Cascade products can read the time stamping functionality of the VSS Monitoring vBroker™, Distributed Series and Protector Series solutions, which give customers more granular and accurate time stamping. The combined solution enables accelerated network analysis and shortens time to resolution of network and application performance problems across service provider, enterprise, and government IT environments. The partnership provides mutual customers with nanosecond precision time stamps for packet capture and analysis when using the Riverbed Cascade application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution and VSS Monitoring’s vBroker, Distributed Series and Protector Series NPBs.

“The time stamp functionality from VSS Monitoring gives Riverbed Cascade customers increased visibility into network and application performance problems for more rapidly addressing performance issues,” said Dimitri Vlachos, senior director of marketing and products, Cascade Business Unit at Riverbed.

VSS Monitoring’s hardware-based time stamping capabilities combined with VSS Monitoring vMesh architecture provide an effective way to troubleshoot and measure application response times, jitter and latency across the entire network.

VSS Monitoring Inc.