Converged Access unveils enterprise-level appliance

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
09/27/05
Today's focus: Converged Access unveils enterprise-level
appliance

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Today's focus: Converged Access unveils enterprise-level
appliance

By Denise Dubie

Application performance management vendor Converged Access this
week announced it had added a data center-level appliance to its
suite of products. The company also upgraded its Converged
Traffic Manager software.

Converged Access, which launched last year with its CTM
products, competes with Allot Communications and Packeteer in
the application traffic and performance management market.
Converged Access says its new CTM 12000 appliance supports sites
with up to 500M bit/sec of bandwidth, 500,000 IP sessions or
flows, 5,000 concurrent VoIP calls, and 2,000 compression
tunnels.

"A lot of times with traffic management solutions the product is
not protecting the good traffic, but more so minimizing the bad
traffic," says Doug Antaya, vice president of marketing at
Converged Access, in Billerica, Mass. "What we do is make sure
you are not only protecting the good traffic, but also giving it
the bandwidth it requires."

The CTM 12000 joins several other appliances from Converged
Access and starts at $32,000, depending on the type of licenses.
The appliances sit between a router and a switch in large data
centers and branch offices, the company says.

The appliances work with Converged Access software applications
such as CTM 3.0 and another new product, Centralized Policy
Manager (CPM) 3.0. CTM 3.0 comes loaded on the appliance and
provides customers with application acceleration features such
as compression, application monitoring and reporting, and
optimization for latency-sensitive applications, the company
says.

CPM 3.0 is an optional software application that would be
suitable for large data center customers, says Antaya, who would
like to get centralized policy controls in place across multiple
appliances. The software would, for example, enable IT managers
to selectively compress specific applications based on
pre-defined policies. The software starts at $10,000 to manage
up to 10 devices and $65,000 for a site license.

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tomorrow.
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