By adopting a highly scalable, system-based approach to a network TAP, users can significantly increase visibility into the traffic taking place in their network.

Offering a new level of network monitoring capability to achieve increased visibility, ONPATH Technologies (News - Alert), a provider of connectivity and monitoring solutions for high performance networks, has seamlessly integrated the SONET/SDH packet aggregation and monitoring switch as well as the NetQuest (News - Alert) OptiCop,into ONPATH's Universal Connectivity System (UCS) suite.

"Enterprise customers require traffic access on telco circuits to validate network performance and SLAs, before the traffic hits their routers," said Jesse Price, VP of Marketing at NetQuest, in a statement. "In addition, service provider and government customers need access to packet traffic on telco circuits for automated network survey and selective traffic targeting in support of lawful intercept and cyber security applications.”

NetQuest OptiCop is a purpose-built monitoring access solution that allows existing Ethernet-based monitoring tools to attach to any network, regardless of transport technology or speed, so customers can access their IP traffic from within transport technologies such as Packet-over-SONET (PoS).

The ONPATH UCS 3900 Packet Blade functions like a Network Packet Broker (NPB) or a network TAP that filters and aggregates 1/10/40Gbps Ethernet traffic, improving access and utilization of monitoring and security tools. It allows network managers to reduce costs by centralizing operations, monitoring services, and network security.

The combination of NetQuest OptiCop and ONPATH's ONPATH UCS 3900 provides the industry with a complete Layer 1 through Layer 4 network monitoring access solution that can access, filter and aggregate packet traffic throughout the network. It also provides valuable insights into network and application performance.

"We are pleased to partner with NetQuest and their proven OptiCop solution to extend the value of ONPATH's Network Monitoring Access solution," said Gene Litt (News - Alert), VP of Marketing at ONPATH. "Customers can now access packet traffic over Ethernet or telco interfaces, aggregate and filter the traffic, and pass it to Ethernet-based tools, reducing both the cost and complexity of their monitoring infrastructure."

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