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Endace Limited, a network monitoring solutions provider, today announced an expanded federal systems initiative for civilian and defense agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Energy.

 

The initiative is designed to replicate the company’s network monitoring installations at a number of civilian and defense agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy, and would be managed by its vice president of sales for government and service provider markets, Michael Druar.

 

“Endace interface cards and monitoring platforms are particularly well-suited to government agencies because they run a wide range of custom and open-source security and performance monitoring applications,” Druar said. “Endace offers the only open platforms capable of making every packet on a 10 gigabit link available for simultaneous analysis by multiple monitoring applications.”

 

As a result, Endace technology is increasingly part of agency RFPs (requests for proposals) for managed network services provided by telecommunications carriers and for network infrastructure installed by systems integrators, according to Druar.

 

“Our expanded sales and systems engineering support capabilities will also ensure that our federal solutions are well-designed for trouble free installation and operation,” he said.

 

Druar said the primary focus of his team is to address the needs of LAN/WAN project managers at government agencies and the systems integrators who assist them.

 

“Operators of government networks are eager to gain the same visibility and control over their networks as their counterparts who manage the physical security of agency facilities. Just as video cameras continuously monitor location entrances and exits, Endace technology makes it practical to apply the same principle to an agency’s data network. We can capture and monitor all traffic coming and going across the network edge and to every critical network resource,” Druar said.

 

Endace says it provides traffic monitoring, latency measurement, network security and application acceleration solutions that capture, inspect and report on every single data packet to organisations using IP networks for business. Endace is based in Auckland, New Zealand and has offices in the United Kingdom, United States and Singapore.