Internap integrates route optimization acquisitions

Internap Network Services, best known as an IP provider that offers route control services, is flexing its product muscles at NetWorld+Interop. On Tuesday, it launched version 3.3 of its Flow Control Platform plus two products that integrate features from the equipment it gained through its acquisition last year of route optimization appliance vendors Sockeye Networks and netVmg.

Although Internap is not combining its products and services business, the service provider says it will be rolling out bundled offerings in the near future.

Version 3.3 of Flow Control Platform includes new policy management features that allows users to set prioritization for specific traffic or users. For example, a customer can determine that voice traffic always gets the highest priority or that traffic from the CEO, identified by a specific IP address, gets priority over all other user traffic.

The upgraded software also includes application and user-based traffic reporting. 

The two new products the service provider launched include its FCP-120 and its FCR-85. The FCP-120 is a traffic monitoring and management device for a small, multi-homed enterprise network. The device includes four Ethernet ports and can monitor up to 75M bit/sec of traffic simultaneously. By comparison, the company’s FCP-500, for larger enterprises, can monitor up to 400M bit/sec of traffic simultaneously.

The FCR-85 gathers traffic information at remote sites and reports it back to either the FCP-120 or FCP-500 device.

Internap’s products are available from $24,900 up to $99,900.