Endace Application Dock Brings 100 Percent Packet Capture to All Network Monitoring Applications

Endace (LSE: EDA), world leaders in high-speed, packet capture and analysis platforms, today announced the general availability of the Endace Application Dock™ as part of its latest software release (OSm 4.1).

Endace Application Dock™ enables third-party, custom and open-source monitoring and network security applications to leverage the power of the EndaceProbe’s proven 10 gigabit 100 percent continuous packet capture and analysis capability. Leveraging the power of DAG™ (Data Acquisition and Generation) hardware technology and highly optimized platform operating software, Endace Application Dock enables multiple applications to coexist alongside the native Analytics and Security tools delivered via the Endace Application Suite.

“Endace Application Dock changes the monitoring and security landscape,” said Neil Livingston, chief product officer at Endace. “The benefits of deploying an open and highly scalable monitoring fabric that guarantees to capture 100 percent of network traffic are far reaching. Not only can organizations make significant resource savings through consolidation of monitoring hardware, but they are also able to be more flexible in the way that they select and deploy tools – safe in the knowledge that every tool that they select is seeing every packet all of the time.”

A number of analytics, monitoring, security, forensic and measurement tools have already been approved to run in the Application Dock, with a long list of additional applications to be added during 2011 through the Dock Application Partner Program.

Anthony Finbow, chief executive officer of Psytechnics, the leading IP voice and video service management solution vendor and one of the first Application Dock Partners, said: “Our application performs very well in the Endace Application Dock, and we are excited to be able to offer our solution in partnership with Endace to deliver on our joint customers’ real time voice and video service management requirements.”

In recent independent testing conducted by NSS Labs, Endace’s platform was proven to capture 100 percent of traffic at 10 Gb/s, making it a natural choice for all organizations concerned about the risks associated with data protection and network security.

A major Endace customer quoted in Edison research at the end of 2010 said: “Data capture is sacrosanct; if you are not capturing everything, then the analysis is pointless.” The recent very public examples of data leakage and denial of service attacks have highlighted the need for highly accurate monitoring capabilities.

The latest release of OSm also adds a number of native monitoring and security functions, known as the Endace Application Suite, which is included as standard with every EndaceProbe™. The Endace Application Suite delivers immediate out-of-the box solutions addressing the fundamental monitoring and security requirements of every modern high-speed network.

The Endace Application Suite includes:

• Endace Packet Access: Fundamental to 100-percent packet capture is the ability to access any packet at any time for further analysis. Endace Packet Access provides a GUI and a series of open interfaces for quickly finding and exporting packets to remote systems.
• Endace Analytics: Endace Analytics provides rich graphical insights into the behavior and performance of the network. It is used to assist engineers with everything from resource planning to forensic investigations. As a result of the latest release, Endace Analytics now includes long-term trending. Endace Analytics is based on Pilot from Cace Technologies.
• Endace Security Manager (ESM): Leveraging the power of open source SNORT™, the world’s most popular security engine, ESM provides enterprise-wide threat detection by monitoring characteristics and signatures of network traffic.
• Endace NetFlow Generator: NetFlow is becoming a more and more important part of the monitoring tool kit, being core to many NBAD applications such as Riverbed’s Cascade product line. Dedicated NetFlow sensors are now widely accepted as essential for generating accurate NetFlow records at 10 Gb/s.

OSm 4.1 is generally available immediately.

About Endace

Endace provides open packet capture and analysis systems that form the basis for mission critical network security, traffic analysis and latency measurement solutions.

EndaceProbes™ are purpose built to be deployed as a fabric, from the edge to the core of the network. Working in unison they provide a comprehensive monitoring fabric on which a range of open source, commercial or custom applications can be run simultaneously.

One hundred percent packet capture is now widely accepted as a non-negotiable input to systems that are being used to monitor, measure and analyze critical networks. Based on proprietary DAG technology, Endace’s systems have a global reputation for consistently capturing and analyzing 100-percent of network traffic.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the U.K. and the United States. Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.