NETWORKS

Spirent Communications has partnered with cPacket Networks to offer products for the emerging high speed data center and cloud infrastructure markets.  Spirent, a leading provider of network testing and service assurance solutions, will extend its live Ethernet network testing solutions with advanced products that incorporate cPacket technology and  provide real time, on the fly, traffic aggregation/de-aggregation, and 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. “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.”

According to Spirent, cPacket’s Pervasive Network Intelligence™ technology makes it the “best of breed” at aggregation, filtering, replication, load balancing, and real time reporting.  First products resulting from this relationship are already available from Spirent.

This announcement follows a series of announcements that demonstrate cPacket’s growing momentum.  Rony Kay, cPacket founder and CEO said, “We are pleased that Spirent, with its worldwide presence in network testing and monitoring solutions, has recognized the strength of cPacket’s technology and products.  This collaboration helps customers address the increasing market needs for real time network visibility and performance monitoring of their networks.”