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Keep a watchful eye: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Part 4: Plug-ins Lisa Phifer
[December 30, 2008] Here in part 4, we take a look at WhatsUp Gold's new plug-in modules—WhatsConnected, NetFlow Monitor, and VoIP Monitor.

Keep a watchful eye: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Part 3: Web Reports Lisa Phifer
[December 29, 2008] Here in part 3 of our review, we use the WhatsUp Gold web interface to review device status, generate historical reports, and eyeball real-time performance graphs.

Keep a watchful eye: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Part 2: Network Monitoring Lisa Phifer
[December 24, 2008] In part 2 of our WhatsUp Gold v12.3.1 review, we use discovery results to monitor systems and services, using state changes to trigger notifications and auto-responses.

Keep a watchful eye: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Part 1: Network Discovery Lisa Phifer
[December 23, 2008] Version 12.3.1 of this popular Windows-based network discovery and monitoring platform expands real-time monitoring capabilities and plug-in visibility.

Bit Torrent and Oversi Collaborate Alex Goldman
[December 16, 2008] The new product adds network management to a competitive line of routers that's engineered in the USA and priced lower than much of the competition.

ADTRAN's n-Command MSP Alex Goldman
[December 15, 2008] The new product adds network management to a competitive line of routers that's engineered in the USA and priced lower than much of the competition.

Xangati Releases Application Management 2.0 Alex Goldman
[December 9, 2008] The new product helps track network problems and solve help desk issues better than ever before.

Concentric's Managed Server Offering Alex Goldman
[November 12, 2008] This cloud computing offering has lots to offer, both from Concentric and from its parent company, XO Communications.

German Engineering Enters U.S. DPI Market Alex Goldman
[October 31, 2008] ipoque may be new to the U.S. market, but it's an established company in Europe and is worth looking at.

A Small Business VoIP Box Alex Goldman
[November 4, 2008] ISPs want a box that's easy to deploy and manage and not overly expensive. Sutus offers an option you should look at.

Premium USB Drive Offers Certification and Secure Backup Alex Goldman
[November 3, 2008] This company is working to grow the channel as it hopes its product meshes seamlessly with the latest services.

Press Release: MPLS VPN Users Gain Visibility Into Service Usage With Packet Design's New Reporting Module
[October 28, 2008] Service providers can share MPLS VPN traffic data with customers, company claims, and boost the value of their VPN offerings.

BluePrint Data Offers Free Anti-Phishing to its Subscribers Alex Goldman
[October 27, 2008] The company continues to offer more services and is also expanding worldwide.

Exalt Offers Backhaul Alex Goldman
[October 22, 2008] This equipment company specializes in backhaul radios for WISPs and cellular companies worldwide.

Everyone.net Adds Services Alex Goldman
[October 20, 2008] The e-mail provider is adding archiving and other products in order to add value for small business customers.

Allot Reaches 10 Gbps, Adds Alliances Alex Goldman
[October 16, 2008] As the development of the best appliances becomes more complicated, box builders like Allot are working with major software companies to enable ISPs to deliver the latest applications at the best possible speed and quality.

Sylantro Readies Platform for Voice Services Alex Goldman
[October 14, 2008] In order to differentiate VoIP from plain old telephone service, you need to offer advanced applications, and in order to do that, you need a platform.

The Astaro Mail Gateway Takes On Barracuda Alex Goldman
[October 7, 2008] A new product release comes with aggressive pricing and PR.

Procera PL10002 Alex Goldman
[October 6, 2008] Procera's latest DPI appliance fits in your network between the core equipment and the CPE.

Barracuda Networks' Link Balancer Alex Goldman
[September 18, 2008] The Link Balancer comes with a firewall that will soon be available on other Barracuda products.

Solarflare Delivers 10 Gbps over Copper Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2008] Ethernet copper technology will challenge optical in data centers.

Looking for a Generator Best of ISP-Lists
[September 11, 2008] Almost every ISP today needs a generator. Choosing one is a big decision, and ISP owners share their advice in this article.

Nominum Solves Kaminsky Attack Alex Goldman
[August 27, 2008] But the DNS specialist warns ISPs to remain vigilant, as threats are certain to evolve.

Mimosa Says That Recovery Differentiates Your Archiving Service Alex Goldman
[August 19, 2008] Sure, hosted archiving (or even tape backup) can do the job for a small business customer who doesn't go to court often. But if you start offering service to large corporations, you'll need a system that saves the entire Exchange database and can deliver exactly what you want in minutes, not hours.

Automating DNSSEC Alex Goldman
[August 5, 2008] DNSSEC is a great answer to the DNS problem we're all concerned about, but deploying it in an ISP environment is not a trivial task.

European Filter Service Opens U.S. Offices Alex Goldman
[July 21, 2008] Optenet, which began life as a family-friendly ISP in Northern Spain, now offers carrier class filtering to ISPs in North America.

The Biggest Servers for the Fastest Computers Alex Goldman
[July 15, 2008] Data Direct is one of just a few companies building server racks offering gigabytes per second of throughput and terabytes and petabytes of storage.

3Tera Announces Cloudware and AppLogic 2.3 Alex Goldman
[June 30, 2008] The company says that its application technology platorm will now be able to combine applications from multiple data centers, creating services.

MailSite's BlackBerry ActiveSync Alex Goldman
[June 16, 2008] The company's latest product could completely disrupt pricing in a very specific segment of the mobile business.

Arbor Networks' Peakflow SP 4.5 Alex Goldman
[June 16, 2008] The updated network defense system now handles higher bandwidth. Among its new features, the most interesting is one click attack mitigation.

SugarCRM Jeff Goldman
[June 11, 2008] The open source solution is available in on-site and hosted editions—and the recently-introduced Data Center Edition allows ISPs to offer their own hosted versions of the software to their end users.

MailSite Version 9 Alex Goldman
[June 9, 2008] The software update focuses on what the company's founder says is the main driver of SMB services sales.

ISPCON LaunchPad Pavilion: 2Pad Alex Goldman
[June 5, 2008] ISPCON hosted a showcase for innovative, new companies. One of them showed up with a free offer to ISPs: an e-mail based photo gallery.

When the DoS Attack Reaches a Gigabit Alex Goldman
[May 15, 2008] GigaFin says that although generalist security appliances can handle your everyday needs, you'll need its appliance when you're hit with a massive attack.

Reflexion Grows Alex Goldman
[May 14, 2008] The anti-spam provider announces new services and adds power to its core engine.

ImageStream and Powercode Team Up To Fight P2P Traffic for ISPs Alex Goldman
[May 13, 2008] A powerful partnership fights a real problem.

Link Technologies' PoweRouter Alex Goldman
[May 9, 2008] Aiming to take on the Cisco 7200 series, Link Technologies has adapted MikroTik technology to high end deployments.

Celestial Software's AbsoluteTelnet Jeff Goldman
[April 30, 2008] AbsoluteTelnet was launched over a decade ago, and continues to compete strongly in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

The Network's Task Manager Alex Goldman
[April 24, 2008] One company has built a system that takes advantage of information from every network element to tell support—and the managers—what's happening on your network.

ADTRAN Adds GPON to Total Access 5000 Alex Goldman
[April 3, 2008] The company's massive multiservice switch adds optical to more traditional media, all on the same box.

ISPs Want Reliable Speed Tests Best of ISP-Lists
[March 25, 2008] This is not a new problem, but as ISPs offer faster speeds and a larger menu of options, users are becoming more demanding.

Gordano Version 15 Alex Goldman
[March 11, 2008] The modular mail system improves its collaboration and webmail features, and adds several other features you're not expecting to see here.

The Largest and Smallest ISPs Face Similar Wireless Challenges Alex Goldman
[March 10, 2008] Alcatel-Lucent's carrier class 9900 Wireless Network Guardian, announced today, works in the core to monitor application performance on wireless networks.

AppLogic 2.2 Alex Goldman
[March 6, 2008] This visually appealing utility computing system gets another feature boost.

Propel's Personal Bandwidth Manager Alex Goldman
[March 3, 2008] Introducing the tool that shows the user when the problem's on the PC, not on your network.

The Broadband Network Aggregator Alex Goldman
[February 12, 2008] Want to have both a T-1 and a DSL line? Want to use both DSL and cable or two lines of each? This new box, announced today, can do it all, with a recipe that includes a secret algorithm and a truffle.

Cisco's Data Center of the Future Alex Goldman
[February 7, 2008] Ten gigabits per second today, 100 gigabits per second in the future, and, if you still need them, the single gigabit connections of a few months ago, all fit in the picture. Then, add services through an orchestrated system that can quickly bring online the necessary storage and network assets.

Gigamon's Multifunction Switches Alex Goldman
[February 5, 2008] These boxes can switch massive bandwidth in a variety of configurations, change on the fly, and support header-based filtering as well.

Mirapoint Upgrades Its Products Alex Goldman
[January 31, 2008] The premium provider of messaging appliances throws the latest in hardware and software at e-mail, that vital service that is also the biggest headache for ISPs.

IronPort Says Your Job Has Changed Alex Goldman
[January 30, 2008] The company says e-mail security threats have evolved so far and so fast that the job of the mail administrator has changed fundamentally, and it has upgraded its e-mail appliances to keep pace.

Zoom's DSL Partner Program Alex Goldman
[January 29, 2008] The company says it serves independent ISPs better than the Bell-focused vendors.

m0n0wall, an Open Source Lightweight Firewall Jeff Goldman
[January 24, 2008] Manuel Kasper's embedded FreeBSD-based firewall software package is especially attractive to WISPs and small ISPs

NeuStar Offers to Manage Your DNS Alex Goldman
[January 22, 2008] The company adds features to a service most ISPs take for granted and some regard as a chore.

Featuretisements Alex Goldman
[January 14, 2008] One company is building a mechanism to deliver ads that it says users are grateful for.

Cisco and IronPort: Filters Are Not Enough Alex Goldman
[December 18, 2007] A recent report from IronPort and its parent company Cisco says that threats are not only growing, they are changing in ways that will force ISPs to adopt new anti-malware technologies.

Walking the Tightrope Gerry Blackwell
[December 11, 2007] The next big battleground in the increasingly competitive ISP market will be the same as it always is: e-mail.

• Caching Appliance Style: Quantex WebXL 2000   [January 10, 2000]  
• Fail-Safe Caching: InfoLibria DynaCache   [January 17, 2000]  
• NICS with Integrated Management: Compaq TaskSmart   [January 24, 2000]
• Predictive Caching: CacheFlow 545   [February 3, 2000]
• Multiprotocol Caching: NetApp NetCache C720s   [February 14, 2000]
  
• Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3   [February 28, 2000]
  
• Series Wrap-Up   [March 6, 2000]
  

Review Series:
Network Management Systems  LisaPhifer

• NetPlus AutoManage [July 5, 2000]  
• ipMonitor   [July 12, 2000]  
• SNMP ToolChest, Silver   [July 19, 2000]  
• MG-SOFT NetInspector, MIB Browser [August 9, 2000]  
• Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold   [August 16, 2000]  
• Castle Rock SNMPc   [August 31, 2000]  
• Series Wrap-Up   [October 5, 2000]  

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