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In this issue...
Monitoring Tools
Announcing the Remote Alarm Block 176N — High density alarm collection over IP in a low-cost, industry standard form factor
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| The RAB 176 remote units are perfect for any site with lots of equipment and not much space. |
Take a look inside any equipment room in your network and ask yourself: How much of this stuff is actually making you money? Wouldn't it be better if, instead of taking up space, your support equipment actually freed more space for revenue-generating equipment?
That's the thinking behind the Remote Alarm Block 176 series. These remote telemetry units combine large alarm capacity with a small form factor. With industry-standard wire-wrap alarm terminations and a circuit pack that can be removed without disconnecting alarm wiring, the RAB 176 fits right into your network.
Learn how you can free space for your revenue-generating equipment ...
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Monitoring Trends
KMC Telecom saves $2 million per year by bringing network alarm monitoring in-house
Why pay someone to do something you can do yourself? That was the question KMC Telecom, a fast-growing integrated provider of voice, data, and Internet services, asked itself in 2001.
Until last year KMC relied on an outsource provider to monitor its fiber optic network, which stretches over 30,000 miles across 35 states. KMC decided it could save money by monitoring their network themselves ...
KMC Telecom saves $2 million per year through in-house monitoring ...
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Network Alarm Management that Solves Problems Instead of Pointing Fingers
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| Tired of finger pointing? |
An effective network alarm management solution does more than just list alarms. To manage your network successfully, you need tools to rapidly identify and correct network problems.
T/MonXM gives you those tools. Our top-rated alarm management platform provides superior functionality for every stage of alarm collection, monitoring, notification, correction, and analysis. T/MonXM gives you the means to control your alarms, your network, and your business.
Find out about network alarm management that solves problems instead of pointing fingers ...
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Does your SNMP manager support these 7 key telemetry functions?
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| If you bought it off the shelf, it probably doesn't. |
SNMP is a standard protocol that has wide acceptance in the industry and is flexible enough to describe almost anything. (See our SNMP Tutorial Series). Because of these advantages, many network managers have come to believe that SNMP should be used for all telemetry monitoring applications.
SNMP certainly has its place in an effective telemetry monitoring solution, but this doesn’t mean that any off-the-shelf SNMP manager can provide adequate visibility and control of your network.
See if your SNMP manager supports these 7 key telemetry functions ...
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SNMP Tutorial Part 4: Layered Communication
In this fourth article in our series, we continue to examine the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) focusing specifically on the layered communication model used to exchange information. Our last article focused on the structure of SNMP messages, however an SNMP message is not sent by itself ...
SNMP Tutorial Part 4: Layered Communication ...
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