Ipanema Adds a Virtual, 1Gbps, Traffic Management Engine

Ipanema Technologies (part of InfoVista) announced the "..release of its new virtual engines portfolio, the vip|e. The solution embeds the whole set of features of Ipanema’s leading application performance physical devices offering (also known as ip|engines) – including application visibility and control (AVC), WAN optimization, dynamic WAN selection and network rightsizing – on a single, centrally-controllable virtual machine.

.. Ipanema’s virtual engine can be easily deployed in countries with custom-clearance issues, and in sites with limited space or constrained environments. vip|e also supports communications service providers’ (CSPs) Point of Presence-based deployments and provides them with a strong step towards network function virtualization (NFV) and SDN. Lastly, vip|e can be deployed in Cloud-Exchange Hub and Internet peering point to improve access to cloud-based applications.

Ipanema Application visibility 

The new virtual engine portfolio is available in four versions to match varying enterprise requirements from a maximum bandwidth of 20 Mbps up to 1 Gbps". 

See "Ipanema Launches Virtual Engine" - here.

Ipanema-as-a-Service: Cloud-based Management System

Ipanema Technologies announces the launch of "IpanemaCloud Central Management, Ipanema’s first ever cloud-based service. This new cloud-based service allows VARs, MSPs and telcos to reduce time to market by months, offering them easy access to Ipanema’s platform to quickly deliver Ipanema-based managed services to their customers. 

Since it requires no upfront investment in infrastructure or set up costs, IpanemaCloud offers service providers a cost-effective solution and allows them to focus resources on their core business areas, safe in the knowledge that their management platform is fully up to date. 

As a cloud-based service management platform, it leverages Ipanema’s carrier class management software and combines it with a secured service portal based on leading certified technology partners, Rackspace hosting and force.com.
  

See "Ipanema Technologies accelerates its move to the cloud announcing IpanemaCloud, with Central Management as the first of a series of cloud-based services" - here.

BT WAN Optimization Service Saves 30% Using Ipanema

   

Ipanema Technologies announced that "Solvay, a global chemical company headquartered in Belgium with employees in 55 countries around the world, has been able, after a global WAN RFP in 2011, to reduce its telecom costs by 30% by dynamically controlling application performance over a hybrid network thanks to BT Connect Optimization, a BT managed service based on Ipanema Technologies’ solutions"

Following the sale of Solvay’s pharmaceutical division in 2009, employees and sites were reduced by 30%. In 2011 however, Solvay acquired Rhodia, which resulted in their employee base doubling from 15,000 to 30,000. 

The IT department was subsequently tasked with optimizing the Quality of Service (QoS) delivered for business applications while reducing telecom costs by 30%. 

They reached this goal by:

• Using both the MPLS network and Internet resources as a single unified network to increase the Quality of Service delivered to end-users;
• Moving business applications including Gmail, Google apps and SalesForce.com to the cloud with confidence that performance would not be affected;
• Moving the telepresence dedicated network into a new multimedia network with confidence that performance would not be affected;
• Increasingly using the Internet as a business network while keeping the MPLS network for bandwidth hungry applications such as SAP, VoIP and video only.

See "Solvay reduces costs with a hybrid network from BT and Ipanema Technologies" - here and the case study here.

Ipanema Helps Enterprises Manage Cloud Applications Performance

Ipanema Technologies announced its new "Cloud Application Management (CAM) solution. The CAM solution helps companies manage applications flowing across networks to and from the cloud. With CAM, enterprises can easily understand and control their business application usage and performance from public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, protecting vital network resources from being consumed by recreational apps such as YouTube and Facebook"

".. Ipanema’s CAM solution is complimented by its Dynamic Hybrid Network solution, which allows enterprises to combine both traditional MPLS networks with Internet networks. The Dynamic Hybrid Network solution simultaneously and automatically monitors, controls, accelerates and selects the most appropriate path for an application traffic flow, across two or more networks".

See "Ipanema Technologies launches new solution to easily manage cloud-based application performance" - here.

KDDI and Ipanema Team to Offer Business-Aware Network Services

  

KDDI and Ipanema Technologies, are teaming up at Interop Tokyo 2012 exhibition and conference to offer "..New generation of business aware Network Services: you will see how a network knows the Application Content to better serve Business" (see "Research Shows the Need for Application-aware Networking" - here).

Yoichi Ide, General manager of Global Sales & Marketing Department, KDDI said: "Business aware networking, Business continuity and Cloud Services are really an integral part of KDDI Global solutions that ensure seamless communication for our customers in emerging markets of Latin America, throughout Asia, and around the world”.

Few months ago KDDI deployed a DDoS prevention solution from Arbor (here) also targeting enterprise customers.

See "KDDI application optimization service powered by Ipanema technologies at Interop Tokyo" - here.

Research Shows the Need for Application-aware Networking

Telstra's "Application Assured Networking" (here and here) provides "organisations with a clear view and more control over the increasing number of financial, relationship management, IP telephony, video conferencing and other business applications on their network".

A new research, Killer Apps 2012, conducted by Ipanema Technologies and Easynet shows the potential demand for such technology, either as a service (Telstra's example, with Alcatel-Lucent equipment) or by deploying a Wan Optimization solution.

   

Source: Killer Apps 2012

The research discovered that "performance problems are highly prevalent across networks, with 74% citing enterprise critical applications such as line of business (26%), ERP or CRM (26%) and video-based applications (22%) being those most at risk. In addition, the results unearthed a worrying trend on how such problems are discovered, with user complaints the second most common source of monitoring issues across networks".

In addition to the lack of visibility ("69% do not have visibility of the bandwidth requirements each network application requires"), there of course performance problems as well - "82% of respondents report speed and responsiveness problems in the past 12 months, 43% of companies highlighted that these issues are becoming ‘more frequent. The vast majority of companies (86%) report increasing bandwidth requirements". 

See "New study finds 82% of European organizations suffer application performance problems" - here.

Riverbed to Manage Traffic on Verizon's Managed WAN

   
In my "Broadband Traffic Management" blog, I usually cover consumer-generated traffic - i.e. services and applications we all know from our personal use, either over fixed or mobile networks.

Nevertheless, there is a huge market out there, with a very similar core technology, which targets the operator's business customers - enterprises that either inter-connect their branches and data centers or provide Internet access to their corporate users (or both).

See an earlier post on this subject "Reliance Globalcom Uses DPI for App-Aware Services" - here.

Today we get an announcement from the leader in enterprise Wan Optimization market - Riverbed.  TheStreet reports (here) that "Networking specialist Riverbed(RVBD) is teaming up with Verizon(VZ) as part of a deal to boost traffic across corporate networks.". This is not new for Verizon, as it "already works with Cisco(CSCO) and Juniper(JNPR) to support its Managed WAN Optimization Services, but will now add Riverbed to this mix" - but certainly a great opportunity to Riverbed.

TheStreet also mentions that "ATT(T), BT(BT) and Orange Business Services were present at the virtual Steelhead launch, and Riverbed says that it is working with all three companies around managed services.". Orange Business Services is also using one of Riverbed's  comptitors - Ipanema Technologies - see  "App Performance Services from Vanco and Orange Business Services"  here.