* Converged Access’ CTM 12000
Application performance management vendor Converged Access this week announced it had added a data center-level appliance to its suite of products. The company also upgraded its Converged Traffic Manager software.
Converged Access, which launched last year with its CTM products, competes with Allot Communications and Packeteer in the application traffic and performance management market. Converged Access says its new CTM 12000 appliance supports sites with up to 500M bit/sec of bandwidth, 500,000 IP sessions or flows, 5,000 concurrent VoIP calls, and 2,000 compression tunnels.
“A lot of times with traffic management solutions the product is not protecting the good traffic, but more so minimizing the bad traffic,” says Doug Antaya, vice president of marketing at Converged Access, in Billerica, Mass. “What we do is make sure you are not only protecting the good traffic, but also giving it the bandwidth it requires.”
The CTM 12000 joins several other appliances from Converged Access and starts at $32,000, depending on the type of licenses. The appliances sit between a router and a switch in large data centers and branch offices, the company says.
The appliances work with Converged Access software applications such as CTM 3.0 and another new product, Centralized Policy Manager (CPM) 3.0. CTM 3.0 comes loaded on the appliance and provides customers with application acceleration features such as compression, application monitoring and reporting, and optimization for latency-sensitive applications, the company says.
CPM 3.0 is an optional software application that would be suitable for large data center customers, says Antaya, who would like to get centralized policy controls in place across multiple appliances. The software would, for example, enable IT managers to selectively compress specific applications based on pre-defined policies. The software starts at $10,000 to manage up to 10 devices and $65,000 for a site license.
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