SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Finisar Corporation (Nasdaq: FNSR), a provider of high performance network tools for SANs, LANs and MANs, announced today the introduction of four major products aimed at enhancing network performance monitoring of Enterprise SANs and LANs. The detail gathered from these products is crucial for maintaining network uptime, staving off unexpected delays, reducing costs and avoiding loss of revenue on mission critical applications.
Finisar introduced NetWisdom 1.1, the Industry’s First Detailed Performance Monitoring Application for both Fibre Channel SANs & Ethernet LANs, Surveyor Version 5.5 for Enterprise LAN Network Analysis & Management, Xgig Tap for 10Gigabit Networks, and Distributed Tap Manager (DTM) Software for Remote Roving of Taps in the Network.
NetWisdom Version 1.1 is a real-time monitoring solution that enables both SAN and LAN managers to view critical data about their networks (Fibre Channel SAN or Ethernet-based LAN/MAN) and increase performance and reliability. NetWisdom provides graphical user interface and reporting capabilities to facilitate trend analysis for performance tuning and capacity planning. By gathering and reporting on detailed statistics within the network, NetWisdom highlights and pinpoints complex latency issues that impact service level agreements (SLAs). By maximizing dependability of the network, costly downtime can be eliminated and the unnecessary purchase of additional network equipment or services minimized, leading to a superior return on investment.
“It is great to see Finisar take the next step in providing leading tools to monitor and analyze their SAN or LAN for performance and for potential or current problems,” says Joe Gillaspy, President Gillaspy and Associates. “NetWisdom gives anyone in-depth diagnostics of their network within seconds, and enables Gillaspy Associates to provide its customers with even better products and services.”
Finisar’s NetWisdom is unique in the Enterprise SAN because it monitors "storage I/O centric" SCSI transactions at the individual Initiator/target level, enabling full monitoring and analysis of end-device health and performance. It provides a single correlated view of overall network traffic for easier SAN management & monitoring, and minimizes down-time through early detection of recovered errors. NetWisdom provides drastically different detail from SAN statistics coming from a switch. Switch data is aggregated statistical data, whereas NetWisdom measures true end-to-end conversations to accurately measure latency. Adding to NetWisdom’s uniqueness is its hardware vendor independence, therefore eliminating any qualification delays for new SAN equipment. With NetWisdom, SAN Managers are now able to accurately measure their entire SAN utilization & track service levels in real time.
"Finisar's NetWisdom offers SAN Managers unique insight into their SAN performance monitoring and overall network health. It provides a level of detail currently not seen by current Storage Resource Management and SAN Management product offerings. This detailed data is crucial for maintaining optimum network performance," said Harry Aine, President, SAN Solutions.
In the LAN, NetWisdom works in conjunction with Finisar’s award-winning LAN Network Analysis platform- Surveyor/THG- now upgraded to Version 5.5. NetWisdom’s added reporting capabilities provide powerful tools for
Network Administrators with complex world-wide networks. Surveyor Version 5.5 also adds enhanced security, improved system management and the ability to convert a capture to TCP dump format- a feature used by Snort™ - the Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System.
In the SAN, NetWisdom works in conjunction with Finisar’s Xgig Analyzer platform and our Expert knowledge-based diagnosis system for Fibre Channel and multi-protocol (iSCSI, FCIP, etc.) SANs. NetWisdom monitors all of the data within the SAN then Xgig is employed to help pinpoint and perform root cause analysis. Xgig’s Expert system diagnoses errors and pending exchanges with an easy to understand library of possible causes and detailed explanations.
Finisar Network Taps are used by Networking professionals for both detailed network analysis or Intrusion Detection. Taps non-intrusively take a copy of the data from the network for off-line analysis. Finisar’s new Xgig Tap, provides tapping solutions for 10 Gigabit Networks (both Ethernet and Fibre Channel). Distributed Tap Manager(DTM) Software is shareware software enabling remote access of taps in the network from one software console.
“The introduction of NetWisdom into our product line defines Finisar as one of the premier provider of network monitoring and analysis tools,” said Kevin Cornell, Sr. Vice President, General Manager Network Tools Division, Finisar. “With NetWisdom, users can ensure the health and reliability of their networks by finding problems and bottlenecks that other enterprise monitoring products currently miss. With NetWisdom, unplanned downtime will be minimized and the payback on the network greatly improved.”
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