Anue Systems Announces 5236 High Density 10G Tool Aggregator
January 21, 2009
Anue 5236 Tool Aggregator Provides Twenty-Four 10G Ports for Network Monitoring
AUSTIN, TX USA; January 21, 2009. Anue Systems, the leader in network visibility solutions, today announced the latest addition to the company’s Tool Aggregation product family: the Anue 5236 Tool Aggregator. This new product significantly streamlines the deployment and use of multiple network monitoring tools in data centers with 10G and 1G networks.
The Anue 5236 was designed to meet the monitoring needs of today’s most advanced network infrastructures, particularly those networks which have been upgraded to 10G. The Anue Tool Aggregator enables companies with 10G networks to cost effectively monitor those networks with existing 1G tools. Similar to the Anue 5204 model, which provides 24 1G ports and four 10G ports for connecting network access points to tools, the 5236 offers a total of 24 10G ports and four 1G ports.
The Anue 5200 Series Tool Aggregator directly addresses a key challenge facing Fortune 2000 data centers - namely the escalating need to manage and monitor enterprise networks with an ever increasing number of tools, including application monitors, security devices, protocol analyzers, and data recorders. Anue Tool Aggregators help companies quickly and effortlessly deploy network tools by allowing multiple devices to simultaneously share scarce SPAN ports. Additionally, the Anue family of products can aggregate traffic from multiple SPAN ports to a single tool to cost effectively increase monitoring coverage.
“As 10G equipment costs have come down and the need for additional bandwidth has increased due to data center consolidation, virtualization technologies and even convergence with storage networks, many companies have made the switch to 10G. Those companies have experienced the challenges of attempting to cost effectively monitor these new networks, so they can ensure adequate application performance levels and the required security demanded by the business,” said Bob Laliberte, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “This challenge will be even more important in 2009 as IT budgets tighten. The Anue 5236 provides companies a valuable solution to monitor 10G networks by aggregating and filtering traffic so those networks can be monitored by existing 1G tools.”
The Anue 5236’s flexible port configuration options future proof companies’ investments in tools and infrastructure as they migrate to 10G networks. Users can conveniently add additional 10G or 1G ports in one port increments with a simple software license. Field hardware upgrades are not required.
Additionally, 1G ports can be upgraded to 10G ports via a software license so users can fully leverage their previous investments as the move to 10G. “Our customers told us that the migration to 10G does not happen overnight and they needed a solution that can meet their needs as their networks and applications continually change,” said John Delfeld, Vice President of Marketing for Anue Systems. “The 5236’s flexible port scaling, easy to use GUI, and dynamic filtering allow our customers to cost effectively monitor their ever changing networks and applications.”
About Anue Systems
Anue Systems is the market and technology leader in network visibility solutions. The Austin, Texas based company was founded in 2002 and is a leading provider of Network Emulation and Tool Aggregation solutions. The world’s leading network equipment vendors, enterprises, and service providers use Anue Network Emulators to see and test the real impact of the wide area network on networked applications. Fortune 2000 companies use the Anue 5200 Series Tool Aggregator to provide the visibility that network monitoring tools in their data centers need, in order to secure and monitor networked applications. Anue Systems has over 500 customers worldwide. Learn more about the company at www.anuesystems.com.