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Solera Networks' New APIs Increase Effectiveness of Security and Network Management Analysis Software

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 09:16 CDT

Solera Networks, the price-performance leader in lossless deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology, announces the availability of two application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to access and analyze network packets directly from the Solera Networks platform, in real time or as regenerated network traffic.

The new APIs give customers the ability to do root cause discovery of network anomalies, and accessing 100 percent of network traffic instead of relying on more limited methods such as statistical sampling or header analysis.

With the release of the APIs, software such as network intrusion detection, forensics, behavioral analytics, archiving, and network traffic analysis can easily integrate with the Solera DS file system to search, analyze and replicate 100 percent of the traffic on any network.

"One of the key differentiators for Solera Networks is that we provide an open platform that allows customers to utilize any number of commercial, custom or open source tools to analyze their network traffic, and our new APIs make this even easier," said Steve Shillingford, President and CEO of Solera Networks. "Unlike other capture devices which restrict users to expensive, proprietary analysis tools on proprietary hardware, we allow customers to choose their tools and the level of deployment that best meet their specific needs. No other vendor provides this level of flexibility and return on investment."

Applications that can now benefit from a complete historical view of network traffic include:

Network management applications

Network security applications

Forensic/analytic applications

Lawful Intercept applications

The new APIs are built using simple object access protocol (SOAP) and representational state transfer (REST) development environments. The APIs are available to third-party developers upon request. For more information on the APIs, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

About Solera Networks

Solera Networks' provides high-performance packet capture, record and stream-to-storage devices capable of capturing, streaming-to-storage, and archiving all traffic on any network, at speeds up to 10 Gbps. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented as a virtual file system, which is then accessible to any standards-based security, forensic, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, with the ability to throttle or accelerate traffic speeds and filter playback based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables, and without affecting the production network's performance. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

Source: Business Wire

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