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"AppCritical is clear evidence that Apparent Networks understands the current challenges that organizations are facing with today's complex networks. The technology makes AppCritical easy to use and implement. The product itself is so well designed, training is almost not necessary."

- Martin Webb, Manager, Data Networks Operations
Ministry of Management Services
Government of British Columbia

Apparent's AppCritical RNA remotely assesses VoIP-readiness for Polycom resellers

Apparent Networks and Polycom have formed an OEM partnership that gives Polycom service providers and VARs the ability to assess the VoIP-readiness of small and medium-sized businesses without a site visit or elaborate configuration requirements..
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AppCritical 3.1, from Apparent Networks, aims to ratchet up performance, scalability

Apparent Networks has released the latest version of its network management product, AppCritical 3.1, which is designed to analyze and diagnose faults and performance problems.
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Apparent Networks inks OEM deal with Nortel for management software

Apparent Networks and Nortel recently announced a partnership that entails Nortel installing Apparent diagnostic, troubleshooting and pre-deployment assessment software for its enterprise VOIP customers.
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Ensuring Optimum Quality of Experience in Converged Enterprise and Hosted Networks

For enterprises and service providers alike, the broad acceptance of the Internet Protocol (IP) as the de facto standard for data, voice and multimedia communications has simplified the design and management of network topologies, improved interoperability among multivendor equipment, and enhanced the quality of information and service delivery to end users. Increasingly, "IP over everything and everything over IP" has become reality. This in turn helped simplify the design and management of converged network topologies.
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Apparent Networks Customer Case Study: British Columbia Government

This IDC Study investigates how Common IT Services (CITS), the provider of information technology infrastructure support services to the provincial government and the broader public sector in British Columbia, used Apparent Networks' AppCritical software to provide continuous real-time monitoring of the Shared Provincial Access Network (SPAN/BC). AppCritical's proactive approach to managing bandwidth and response-time allows the Province to identify and address possible bottlenecks and outages before they occur.
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MARKET DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Apparent Networks extends its agentless network management skills to the VOIP arena

Apparent has an impressive customer and partner list for such a young company, and VOIP management is one of the busiest sectors of network management. With its defensible intellectual property, the company is well positioned to grow organically or to pursue any other strategy it fancies.
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MARKET INSIGHT: Challenges and Opportunities in VoIP Monitoring Market

The entry of more products in the test and measurement market that encompass both active and passive approaches is expected in the near future. One such solution is AppareNet Voice, a hybrid of passive and active approaches. This testing mechanism creates test traffic and uses software probes to monitor it but does not need the installation of software agents at terminal sites. All a user needs to know is the IP address at the originating site and he/she can monitor as many as a hundred of sites an hour.
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IMPACT REPORT: Apparent Networks offers sonar-like approach to network

The 451 Group has praised passive network monitoring, and it's clear that network traffic simulation, too, has a place in the diagnostic toolkit. What Apparent Networks offers is a clever hybrid. It generates its own traffic, like the simulators, then it listens for echoes, as probes listen to the network traffic itself. The clever part is that this approach eliminates the need for deployment at multiple points on the network, so you can monitor even those increasingly necessary networks that you don't actually control.
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STORAGE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BRIEF
Apparent Networks: Intelligent Network Analysis

Apparent Networks was named one of Canada's top companies to watch as it provides a much needed, proactive root cause analysis network monitoring solution. The AppareNet solution provides a level of analysis not found in traditional network management solutions which enables users to quickly isolate tough to find network problems. As a result, users can ensure the integrity of the underlying infrastructure and better enforce SLA's and improve customer satisfaction. Apparent Networks has already achieved success in large enterprise accounts and is gaining traction with multiple vendor partners. ESG expects there will be significant demand for this type of technology in many areas including storage services, business continuance, telecommunications and web-based content distribution markets.
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MARKET DEVELOPMENT REPORT:
Veritas licenses Apparent Networks software for customer support

Veritas Software has licensed Apparent Networks' network diagnostics software, AppareNet Support, for use by its customer support division. Veritas tested the software across a 1,000-case pilot project and found that because network problems could be diagnosed more quickly, in some cases resolution times were cut in half.
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IMPACT REPORT: Apparent takes aim at utility computing role with AppareNet 2.0

As the IT industry looks toward the utility computing model, the issue of managing network performance is becoming more tightly bound with application performance. To move forward, tools that offer actionable insights into the causes of network degradation, such as AppareNet 2.0, will themselves become mission-critical applications.
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