| The Company |
VSS Monitoring, Inc. (www.vssmonitoring.com) is the world's leading innovator of Distributed Traffic Capture Systems™ and network taps, focused on meeting the rapidly evolving requirements of security and performance-conscious network professionals. Distributed Traffic Capture Systems herald a new architecture of network monitoring, one which fundamentally improves its capability and price-performance, at a time when network managers and CIOs face increasingly urgent and complex challenges of monitoring large-scale infrastructure. The company's acronym "VSS" stands for Visibility, Stealth, Security. |
| Founded
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Founded October 2003. First product shipped January 2005. |
| Headquarters
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Burlingame, California, USA |
| Subsidiary
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VSS Monitoring, K.K. (Japan), since November 2007 - www.vssmonitoring.co.jp |
| Sales
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Direct in the United States
Via distributors and resellers worldwide in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas
NEM via leading network analyzer manufacturers and large-scale systems integrators |
| Executive Management |
Terence Martin Breslin, Founder & CEO
David Kucharczyk, CTO |
| Ownership
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Privately held |
| Value Proposition
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Increased ROIIncreased ProductivityProactive Control via Total Network Visibility
VSS Monitoring combines high-level intelligence and distributed traffic capture, making its products the industry’s most capable. VSS Distributed Traffic Capture Systems are the only network taps to combine selective aggregation of network traffic and filtering with high port density, span port capture and a graphical user interface. |
| Innovative Technology |
Selective aggregation and filtering provide greater access and visibility for monitoring tools.
Supports centralized management, multiple monitoring systems.
Leverages monitoring infrastructure across a wide number of networks.
Reduces overall monitoring deployment and maintenance costs by up to 80%.
Reduces response time to troubleshooting and security incidents by providing management access and connectivity between all analyzers and all capture points.
Invisible to the network, providing untouched pass-through and true copies of network traffic for real-time monitoring.
Broad product portfolio supports nearly every network, including legacy infrastructure. |
| Products |
Distributed Traffic Capture Systems: Remotely manageable traffic-capture devices which work together as a system to significantly leverage multiple monitoring tools over a larger number of networks for greater visibility and significant reduction of total monitoring costs.
Features include:
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ο High port-density aggregation |
ο Filtering (pre-analyzer) on OSI layers 2-4 |
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ο Port I/O mapping |
ο GUI / CLI / SNMP management |
Single Taps: Basic network tap that provides capture of a single full-duplex network and outputs the copied traffic (without any stream aggregation) to a single monitoring device.
High-Density Taps: Multiple (up to 24) single taps in a single 1U enclosure. Saves users rack space.
Regeneration Taps: Capture and replication of network traffic for multiple monitoring systems.
Aggregation Taps: Capture of multiple networks (or single full-duplex network) for output onto a single stream.
Data-Injection Taps: Traffic capture, along with an active capability for IPS sourced data-injection into the network (TCP resets, etc.). |
| Application |
Ethernet, SONET and ATM traffic-capture systems for forensics, security, performance, behavior, VoIP and new media analysis solutions in both inline and span (mirror) port applications. |
| Target Markets |
Telecommunications carriers, service providers, large enterprises and government. |
| Partial List of Customers |
AT&T, Sprint, Eschelon, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Polska Telefonia, PTK CenterTel, e-Plus, Cable & Wireless, O2, TeliaSonera, China Mobile, Beijing Telecom, New Zealand Telecom, SEB, OMX, Citrix Online, Dow Jones, MMC, Phorm, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Charles Schwab, FAA, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, NSA, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Sun Microsystems, Lavalife, Best Buy, Tickets.com, Brinker International, Williams-Sonoma, Jump Trading, Magnetic North Software |
History |
| Jan 2005 |
Went to market with 30+ product range. |
| Oct 2005 |
Shipped industry's first Distributed Traffic Capture System, which introduced high-density aggregation, on-board servers, and span / inline flexibility to the traffic-capture market. |
| Dec 2006 |
First Distributed Traffic Capture System to feature I/O mapping and high-density gigabit aggregation.
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| Jun 2007 |
HTTPS |
| Jul 2007 |
First low-density Distributed Traffic Capture System with filtering on OSI layers 2-4. |
| Jan 2008 |
Released fully flexible, high-density Distributed Traffic Capture System with filtering on OSI layers 2-4. Distinguished for its depth and breadth of capability, scalability, and ease of use. Fundamentally improves monitoring price-performance. |
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| Differentiation |
VSS Monitoring's Distributed Traffic Capture Systems for traffic capture fundamentally improve price-performance and network analyzer efficiency, as well as increase network visibility and reduce response times.
Only VSS Monitoring offers a single vendor total traffic-capture solution, encompassing small deployments requiring basic network taps, through large, complex deployments with multiple monitoring solutions that become highly leveraged through its unique distributed systems. VSS Monitoring is the only vendor providing distributed traffic capture solutions and offering customers a large product portfolio.
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| VSS and Distributed Traffic Capture System are trademarks or registered trademarks of VSS Monitoring, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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