San Jose, Calif.-based route control play netVmg plans to take the wraps off
its Flow Control Platform (FCP) 2.0 Monday, positing it as a product that
enables measurable Internet performance, route optimization in public and
private VPNs.
The company, which plans to introduce the FCP at the Networld+Interop (N+I)
2002 Las Vegas conference, said the upgraded platform gives companies an
affordable, flexible software to optimize network performance and control
costs.
It allows businesses to route all Internet traffic — as opposed to Web-only
traffic — across multiple networks based on specific business and
application needs.
netVmg senior director of marketing Kim Kapustka told InternetNews the FCP
upgrade lets corporate clients control the cost and performance of their
Internet network resources. The FCP 2.0 is scaled to larger networks and
can be used to optimize VPN traffic flows between branch offices and
corporate data centers across both private network-based and Internet-based
links, she said.
The two-year-old netVmg said three different models of the FCP 2.0 product
would be put on the market. The Model 5000, which is aimed at large
multi-homed enterprises and content providers with significant bandwidth
usage and growth projections, is styled as a modular platform with expansion
slots for easy upgrades.
The Model 5000, which is already available, includes a FlowCollector
Processor with two Gigabit-Ethernet interfaces for real-time traffic
analysis and a FlowDirector Processor, which monitors and optimizes
thousands of destination networks simultaneously.
netVmg said the Model 1000 is available for moderately-sized multi-homed
enterprises with stable bandwidth growth projections. It also provides a
FlowCollector Processor and the FlowDirector Processor
The Model 50R, which will hit the market in June 2002, is aimed at small
multi-homed branch offices exchanging information with corporate data center
applications. NetVmg said the Model 50R delivers VPN optimization capability
in a small-footprint appliance and can optimize flows to up to 50
destination networks simultaneously . For a typical corporate
implementation, pricing starts at $100,000 and netVmg said the Model 50R
would run at $10,000 per unit for a typical remote/branch office
configuration.
netVmg initially released its FCP last November and now counts Sony Online
Entertainment and Equinex among its core clients for the software.
To measure actual traffic performance, netVmg said FCP is used to monitor an
organization’s actual traffic flows with its passive flow analysis
software –without adding data or probes to the wire. “This architectural
approach supports all types of traffic, enables accurate measurements, and
allows the FCP to scale an order of magnitude greater than alternative
approaches,” the company said.
netVmg, which employs 60 at offices in California, Chicago and New York, has
raised about $39.5 million in venture capital funding since launching in
2000. Backers include Accel Partners, BlackBoard Ventures, Duff Ackerman &
Goodrich LLC., and ITOCHU.
Last month, the company appointed former CacheFlow executive Alan Robin as
president and CEO.
