The Packet Scoop

Network management systems are not much different than cell phones, digital cameras, and video cameras. Many of these devices are overkill on features that only a very small fraction of buyers use. When was the last time you used all those advanced features on your digital camera?
Network management is no different. Needlelessly complex, hard to [...]

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We are please and proud that over 30,000 users are seeing value in our pt360 Diagnostic Tool Suite. You may have seen the release this morning that we have registered over 1 million runs of our network management suite. For a product that was released less than six months ago, we are happy that we’re on the [...]

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Great article today by Andy Moon at Tech Republic. It’s clear that video streaming is a straining factor on the corporate network and handling it is becoming a larger and larger challenge. I’m not speaking just about YouTube, I’m really referring to the streaming of live video where workers watch news, dramas, and, this summer, the Olympics.  [...]

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Are users on your network sucking bandwidth with YouTube videos? Do your users know your email server is down before you do? Are there connectivity issues in a remote office? The PacketTrap Netflow Listener solves these problems and more.
Today we released Cisco Netflow support in our pt360 Network Management Tool Suite. Just click Help | [...]

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With the recent release of our Switch Port Mapper and our soon to be released Cisco Netflow feature, we’re confident that you will not find a more robust set a capabilities in a Network Engineer’s Tool Suite that’s as affordable as ours. But don’t just take my word, download it today and take it for a [...]

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In a few days we will release our Cisco Netflow Analyzer feature as part of the pt360 ToolSuite. Netflow Analyzer is a bandwidth monitoring and capacity management tool that helps optimize networks for peak performance. By providing an in-depth visibility into network traffic and its patterns, the PacketTrap Netflow Analyzer gives IT system administrators / [...]

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The annual Apple Developer’s Conference is coming in two weeks to San Francisco’s Moscone Center, just two blocks from our office. Obliviously, being technology geeks, we typically slip out of the office for a day as we spend time at the conference (that’s the beauty of being a technology company in San Francisco – many [...]

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Our Switch Port Mapper, as part of the pt360 network management tool suite, was released today as expected. Just click on Help | Check for Software Updates to automatically upgrade to the new version.
Look for our next to be released feature, Cisco Netflow support, in the coming weeks. You won’t find a more robust network [...]

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Over the next day or so we will release a new feature in the pt360, our Switch Port Mapper. To get the feature, simply click Help | Check for Software Updates in your pt360.
Our Switch Port Mapper helps network engineers identify the switch port to which a device is connected and thus eliminates the need of [...]

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It’s clear that network management software for the most part doesn’t solve a specific pain point. That is, a collection of tools that helps an IT professional solve a bunch of problems is a nice to have, but not a need to have. For example, IT people need to have backup. They need to have [...]

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