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Metropolitan Area Networks and carrier backhaul of wireless services is a burgeoning market ready to explode. Carriers and Enterprises alike are struggling with how to migrate from traditional T1 and E1 services to a new media that is much less manageable. Though standards bodies such as IEEE and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) have ratified standards for these services, the standards are constantly changing and growing to support new services and new methodologies of managing Ethernet circuits. Difficulties such as how to achieve visibility to Q-in-Q traffic, how to inject management traffic within customer VLANs without compromising security, and how to garner passive visibility to traffic without causing outages of all customers. These challenges are being faced today and both Carriers and Enterprises need answers to the difficult questions. VSS Monitoring meets these demands by offering a distributed and highly scalable hardware platform that enables companies to best leverage their costly network monitoring systems. By providing wide, flexible visibility that accommodates application-specific monitoring, the VSS Monitoring Distributed System has been used to successfully reduce network-monitoring costs by up to 80% as reported by VSS Monitoring customers.

The VSS Monitoring Distributed System helps companies: Have universal access to monitor all networks and services Get the greatest amount of visibility possible Reduce overall monitoring costs by up to 80% Lower on-site personnel costs Fewer monitoring tools required