Sinefa, a Melbourne-based network technology vendor, is using this week's Microsoft Australian Partner Conference to launch a monitoring tool that provides visibility of traffic, without the need to install costly equipment.
Brisbane-based Cloud Plus has been named as the first service provider to use Sinefa for Aggregation Points (Sinefa AP). Jules Rumsey, managing director of Cloud Plus – which has twice been in the top 10 of the CRN Fast50 – said the tool offered clients "granular visibility of network utilisation without having to deploy equipment at their premises".
Sinefa AP surfaces data on traffic flowing to and from aggregation points such as network cores, hosting points and data centres. Company founder Chris Siakos said: “Sinefa AP is a critically important new product because we are finding most network performance issues are caused by users flooding networks with traffic.
"This traffic is often related to cloud migration or data synchronisation issues; or it is recreational; all of which compromises mission-critical applications," Siakos added.
"With Sinefa AP, network providers can now show their customers how they are using their bandwidth, enabling them to address issues that are impacting network performance. Service providers equipped with Sinefa AP will be able to enhance service levels and reduce customer service costs."
The cloud-based, multi tenanted solution requires a KVM or VMware hypervisor or can be deployed as a hardware probe. Despite being launched at Microsoft APC, it is currently not compatible with Hyper-V due to functionality requirements, but "we are constantly watching for any developments by Microsoft", according to Sinefa.
Sinefa recommends that in environments greater than 10Gbps, Sinefa's AP run on a dedicated appliance.
The company was founded in 2011 and is distributed by Rhipe.
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