Napatech Market Reports

• Heavy Reading Inside: DPI Appliance Vendors Face an Off-the-Shelf Challenge
  
  DPI Appliance Vendors Face an Off-the-Shelf Challenge goes under the hood, looking at the technologies that DPI component and building block vendors are providing that will underpin the next wave of DPI technology deployments. It reviews where their DPI is starting to be embedded, and what the implications are for the vendors of DPI solutions – including specialist vendors and the major NEPs.
• Heavy Reading Inside: DPI Appliance Vendors Face an Off-the-Shelf Challenge
• Ovum: Networking applications need better management and throughput capabilities
  
  

  As more applications rely on IP-based Internet service delivery models, including realtime facilities such as VoIP, video streaming, IPTV, and financial trading, Internet bandwidth demands are growing at rates of over 60% per year. These constantly expanding usage demands drive the need for faster line speeds, and just as importantly, the requirement for better data monitoring and management tools.

  Making use of intelligent network management technology, which provides the ability to understand the data movement activities of the business, while delivering operational services as efficiently and safely as possible, can also save on additional bandwidth overheads.
   
  Network management systems that claim superfast throughput (10Gbps and above), but fail to perform or drop data packets, give the network management market a bad name. The ability to deliver high-speed throughput and, at the same time, provide the realtime data needed to effectively manage IP networks and services, is a fundamental requirement. However, such systems need to be capable of capturing and analyzing all data at line rate, otherwise packets will be dropped and critical management data can be missed.
• Ovum: Networking applications need better management and throughput capabilities
• Ovum: Napatech – Intelligent Real-time Network Analysis
  
  

  Napatech adapters augment commodity servers with functionality and capabilities to enable them to fulfil traffic acceleration, line-speed monitoring, and other network monitoring and improvement tasks.They are mostly used by specialist vendors as part of value-adding products undertaking security and networking tasks, but also are purchased by a number of end-user organisations for whom network performance is business-critical. This portion of the user base is likely to grow as more organisations look to establish revenue-earning online services – specially so because the Napatech adapters are priced lower than many offerings that have similarly high-level capabilities.

• Ovum: Napatech – Intelligent Real-time Network Analysis
• Ovum: Monitoring and Measurement for the Capital Markets
  
  In this report, the Financial Services Technology team at Ovum looks at the market for monitoring and measurement technology for the capital markets, where the ability to determine the latency with which data is traversing a network and making its way through IT infrastructure is key for trading decisions and troubleshooting, as well as for monitoring how well service level agreements (SLAs) are being met.
• Ovum: Monitoring and Measurement for the Capital Markets

Other reports (subscription required)

• The 451 Group: Latency Capture, Storage and Analysis in Financial Markets
  
  
  In today’s ever-more competitive and financially constrained environment, latency is one of the important differentiating factors.
   
  To win the low-latency arms race, a firm must first understand its latency and how it accrues.  There is no point in reducing the latency of one component from 100 to 10 microseconds (10-6 seconds), if another component takes 10 milliseconds (10-3 seconds). This report examines such latency issues. It includes a number of case studies, and Napatech is featured in the report along with a number of other key vendors of both adapters and systems.
• The 451 Group: Latency Capture, Storage and Analysis in Financial Markets