VSS Monitoring - Booth 1820

NEW YORK - SIFMA Technology Expo - June 22, 2010 - VSS Monitoring, Inc. today announced it has added GPS (Global Positioning System) timing to its range of Distributed Traffic Capture Systems. GPS gives a measure of time that is orders of magnitude more precise than the most commonly used alternative method, Network Time Protocol.

       As a benefit of having the same absolute time throughout the network, operations in geographically diverse locations remain in synchronization. This ensures, for example, that financial trades are executed at the precise time requested. In addition, GPS timing allows the user to more accurately measure latency as part of making trading decisions, such as where to place a trade based on the highest probability of the target price being met.

       "Information about latency is becoming as important as the latency itself," said Martin Breslin, VSS Monitoring CEO. "Organizations will be able to act with greater confidence on high-value data using the accuracy and reliability of GPS."

       VSS Distributed Taps™ with GPS indicate the time a packet arrives at each traffic capture device. This capability allows network managers to exactly measure latency throughout their monitoring system, from point of capture at the network link to each monitoring tool.

       In addition to ensuring synchronization of operations and optimizing trade execution, a highly precise measurement of time allows managers to gauge the real-world latency of traffic grooming operations across a distributed network. Grooming can include filtering, packet slicing and session-aware load balancing of the signal sent to the monitoring infrastructure.

       GPS is available for VSS Monitoring's range of Distributed Traffic Capture Systems. For more information, see VSS Monitoring in booth 1820.

       VSS Monitoring, Inc. Is the leader in traffic capture for Network Monitoring 2.0, a new paradigm of network monitoring which provides total network visibility worldwide and higher ROI for the monitoring infrastructure. VSS has the world's largest and most feature-rich family of traffic capture devices allowing IT professionals to see into the farthest reaches of even the largest networks. The company is headquartered in Burlingame, Calif.

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