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Make Systems and HP Form Joint Marketing Agreement for Network Capacity Planning

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Make Systems, a leading provider of network decision tools, has announced a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard's Network Test Division to provide network managers with more robust capacity planning and modeling capabilities. The agreement will enable Make Systems' traffic analysis tool, Interpreter, to work seamlessly with HP's NetMetrix Power Agent distributed monitoring systems. This partnership will provide network managers with a powerful collaboration of tools to accurately model current and projected capacity of their WAN backbones, profile bandwidth requirements of existing and planned applications, and identify locations with the most traffic-intensive applications.

Key Takeaways:

  • Make Systems has established a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard's Network Test Division to provide network managers with more robust capacity planning and modeling capabilities.
  • The agreement enables Make Systems' traffic analysis tool, Interpreter, to work seamlessly with HP's NetMetrix Power Agent distributed monitoring systems.
  • The partnership will provide network managers with a powerful collaboration of tools to accurately model current and projected capacity of their WAN backbones.
  • Interpreter consolidates traffic data from strategic LAN segments into a detailed aggregate representation of network conversations and station information.
  • The NetMetrix Power Agent provides a standards-based data collection software probe using RMON extensions that deliver network traffic information at all seven layers of the network.
  • HP's Network Test Division is the provider of the NetMetrix Power Agent distributed monitoring systems.
  • Make Systems' NetMaker XA tool suite provides network managers with the ability to determine their network traffic mix by application type, gauge how much of this traffic is being transmitted across the wide area backbone, and view this traffic on top of their graphically displayed network topology.
  • The Interpreter tool identifies the source and destination of network traffic, reports on traffic activity levels, and organizes traffic gathered by network data collectors into bandwidth capacity profiles.

Statistics:

  • Make Systems' NetMaker XA suite has been installed in over 140 customer sites worldwide, including Fortune 500, government, and carrier organizations.
  • The company was awarded Best of Show at the NetWorld + Interop conference in May 1994.
  • The NetMetrix Power Agent provides statistical data for every specific host on the network, as well as protocol distribution over time, and source and destination of every conversation on the network.
  • Conventional RMON-based probes are limited to examining network traffic at the MAC layer, which is inadequate for the robust data sets required by NetMaker XA's Interpreter and Planner tools.

Sources:

  • "Make Systems, HP Partner on Network Capacity Planning" - Business Wire, December 20, 1994.
  • NetMaker XA user manual, Make Systems Inc., 1994.
  • "HP's NetMetrix Power Agent" - HP Network Test Division, 1994.
  • "Make Systems Inc. About Us" - Make Systems Inc., 1994.

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