Net Optics Phantom provides network traffic monitoring for utilities

Net Optics has announced that for the 13th year in a row, the company will provide mission-critical network access and monitoring for InteropNet, an industry IT event. Fundamental compnents of the InteropNet platform will include the Phantom Virtual Tap, Director, HD Tap and Indigo Pro.

"This technology has many applications in the energy industry, which are highly regulated for compliance and security. By using the Phantom solution, utilities can monitor the internal traffic inside their virtual infrastructure and private clouds," Sharon Besser, vice president of technology, Net Optics, said in an interview.

"Net Optics solutions are unique and integrated directly into the hypervisor kernel. This allows full access to the entire network stack, without the performance penalty of running the virtual switch in promiscuous mode," he said. "As such, the Phantom product avoids the loss of important network-layer errors which are often cleaned before sharing in promiscuous mode and thus not visible to other monitoring approaches - errors that may hold the key when troubleshooting a difficult performance or interoperability issue. Finally, the Phantom Virtual Tap can share packet streams either with one or more co-resident guest VMs or with any number of external monitoring and management tools by means of direct connection and interaction with a Net Optics Director switch. This latter approach offers the opportunity to apply smart filters to packet streams so that only data of interest is sent to downstream management systems."

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