Announces New Pricing Model for Top-of-the-Line Network Taps

BURLINGAME, Calif.–January 27, 2010–VSS Monitoring, Inc. today introduced the cornerstone of its integrated visibility system for network traffic capture, the v24 Distributed Tap?. Fully configurable even post-deployment, the v24 brings the industry's highest flexibility and capability to distributed traffic capture for network monitoring.

The v24 Distributed Tap allows users to set each of its 24 ports as input or output, their speeds from 10/100 to 10 GigE and their media (fiber or copper) at any time, as often as they wish. This level of flexibility makes the v24 an essential support to the infrastructure of an integrated visibility system, able to be used anywhere in an Ethernet network and to be speedily reconfigured as conditions require.

The company also announced a per-port pricing model for the v24 and selected VSS Monitoring network traffic capture products, designed to further enhance their deployment flexibility.

"The v24 Distributed Tap is an essential component of our integrated visibility system for traffic capture," said VSS Monitoring CEO Terence Breslin. "The v24 extends and leverages the traffic capture system by its ability to increase monitoring reach and depth in the precise measure a user may need. The device not only offers the greatest array of deployment choices, but is also the most feature rich and has been priced so users can buy only the capability they need initially, knowing future in-field upgrades can be made at any time."

VSS Monitoring's integrated visibility system ties together VSS distributed traffic capture devices so they work together seamlessly, meshing transparently with the network. It functions as one scalable system over a WAN or LAN, encompassing technology such as session-aware load balancing to maintain packet order integrity, fault-tolerant intelligent connectivity (with Stack+?), and ingress port time stamping to track packets and measure latency between nodes. The systems approach optimizes the monitoring infrastructure and its ROI, and enables centralized, real-time, packet level monitoring worldwide

An initial four SFP+ modules are factory installed in the v24 Distributed Tap. Users can activate a port at any time via purchasing a license and adding the SFP+ module of their choice. The v24 Distributed Tap is available immediately.

VSS Monitoring, Inc. is the leader in network traffic capture, with the world's largest family and most feature-rich traffic capture devices allowing IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks, preventing problems from reaching end users, and greatly reducing the time to achieve a return on investment for network monitoring and security tools. VSS's innovative Distributed Traffic Capture Systems herald a new architecture of network monitoring, one which fundamentally improves its capability and price-performance. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, Calif.

VSS, Distributed Traffic Capture System, v24 Distributed Tap and vStack+ are trademarks or registered trademarks of VSS Monitoring, Inc.in the United States and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.