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Iptivia Granted New Patent
Iptivia is awarded its fifth patent in managing next-generation, mission-critical IP networks.
Iptivia’s new technology provides real time visibility into monitoring converged IP services.
New York, NY, July 9, 2007 – Iptivia, a leading provider of IP service assurance solutions to enterprises and service providers, today announced that it has been awarded its fifth patent in managing and deploying the real time requirements of next-generation, mission-critical IP networks. This patent’s unique qualities involve the way that routing knowledge combines with traffic measurement information obtained from a small number of monitoring points located at the edge of the network.
According to Roch Guerin, co-founder and chief scientist of Iptivia, “Such a combination enables a complete and accurate picture of not only how much traffic is flowing on every network link, but also where that traffic is originating, and who is contributing what amount. This lightweight and non-intrusive solution provides Iptivia’s new level of IP assurance that we call service fidelity.”
Using Iptivia’s patented techniques, network operators and engineers can gain real time visibility to traffic flow generated by video, voice and high speed data applications. They can more accurately monitor customer service level agreements (SLAs) and more rapidly detect service-affecting incidents caused by unexpected path changes or congestion. When used with the powerful route analytics capabilities of Iptivia’s RouteDynamics product, the patented technology facilitates the means to analyze the impact of network failures so that network operators understand if and how business-critical services are affected as traffic flows are re-routed.
Dr. Inder Gopal, co-founder and chief executive officer of Iptivia, believes that the business benefits of leveraging Iptivia’s patented technology to resolve limitations of traditional traffic monitoring are significant.
According to Dr. Gopal, “With Iptivia’s Service fidelity solutions, our customers will see decreases in the traditional costs associated with activating traffic monitoring at strategic choke points as well as in the capital expenses to deploy added capacity to ensure adequate margins. They will experience reductions in the time it takes to troubleshoot and trace back root causes, and declines in the length and frequency of service disruptions. What’s more, they will see an improvement in the accuracy of network provisioning.”
Unlike current tools and processes, Iptivia’s Service Fidelity Solution addresses traditional traffic monitoring problems that involve requiring packet probes or activating the router’s traffic monitoring on all links. Such problems include the higher costs of deploying and activating the necessary equipment or functionality on each individual link requiring traffic monitoring; the often intrusive nature of this monitoring which degrades performance of the traffic being monitored; the processing and warehousing of large amounts of data that each monitored link generates; and the lack of visibility into how traffic patterns on different links are associated with each other.
About Iptivia, Inc.
By delivering first-in-class networking technologies, Iptivia transforms how carriers and enterprises worldwide leverage network intelligence to assure the highest quality and most reliable IP services. Iptivia assures next-generation network services, such as IP video, VoIP, VPN and carrier Ethernet, as well as real-time communications, such as trading floor data distribution and data-center replication. Enterprises worldwide depend on Iptivia to provide a differentiated end-user experience, capture new sources of revenue and contain operational and network costs. Headquartered in New York City and with sales offices worldwide, Iptivia counts with an impressive list of customers, including leading cable operators, telecommunications providers, financial services institutions and commercial enterprises. For more information please visit www.iptivia.com.