New York, USA and Auckland, New Zealand, June 10, 2008 - Endace Limited (LSE/AIM: EDA), a world leader in network monitoring solutions, today announced the availability of IEEE1588 support for their network monitoring product portfolio. IEEE1588 (known also as Precision Time Protocol, PTP) is an industry-standard protocol that enables precise synchronization of clocks in measurement and control systems across local area networks. Endace is incorporating this standard to provide additional, highly accurate time-stamping and synchronization capabilities for their latency measurement and network monitoring solutions.
“Using GPS and CDMA-based clock feeds, Endace has built an envied reputation for accurate time-stamping capabilities in environments where the needs for precise measurement and network tuning are paramount” said Stuart Wilson, CTO at Endace. “Customers have also been asking for IEEE1588 as a means to synchronize multiple appliances and provide traffic time-stamping with sub-microsecond granularity in locations where wiring for GPS receivers might not be practical and CDMA signals are not always available. Our DAG card IEEE1588 solution meets this requirement by distributing highly accurate atomic clock feeds across local area networks, alleviating the need for independent timing sources at each location.”
The IEEE1588 protocol was designed to support system-wide synchronization accuracy in the sub-microsecond range with minimal network and local clock computing resources. Endace DAG® (data acquisition and generation) cards can now generate and terminate IEEE1588 timing information for accurate synchronization of distributed monitoring platforms. This timing information can be passed between cards using standard category 5 cabling.
“Endace has always used atomic clock sources for maintaining precise synchronization at both card and system levels,” commented Steve Gleave, VP Marketing at Endace. “Our successful deployments in the world’s most critical networks are largely based on our ability to capture and time-stamp every single packet with a consistency and accuracy that is unmatched in today’s monitoring market. Support for the Precision Time Protocol now allows our customers to use Endace products in the further distribution of accurate timing information across local area networks.”
Endace products are on display at this week’s SIFMA Technology Exhibit in New York City, booth #3606. For more information visit: www.endace.com.
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About Endace
For organisations that rely on their IP networks to do business, Endace provides traffic monitoring, latency measurement, network security and application acceleration solutions that capture, inspect and report on every single data packet. We enable our customers to be confident in their service performance, information security, and regulatory compliance. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the UK, USA and Singapore. Quoted on AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA. For further information: http://www.endace.com Endace, the Endace logo, DAG and NinjaProbe are trademarks or registered trademarks in New Zealand or other countries of Endace Technology Limited. All other trademarks may be the property of their respective holders.
