Use Facebook to manage your network remotely

Network Innovation Award: Enterasys reinvents remote network management

Rivka Gewirtz Little, Executive Editor

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Enterasys Networks has won the SearchNetworking.com Network Innovation Award for remote network management. The company's Project isaac lets network pros troubleshoot their networks remotely through Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce.com Chatter using simple language. 
READ ABOUT ENTERASYS' REMOTE NETWORK MANAGEMENT. 


Combining NetFlow and packet analysis boosts network visibility
Now that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota relies on Software as a Service (SaaS) for core business processes like administering claims, network performance engineer Barry Pieper relies on deep packet analysis to tap inbound and outbound Internet traffic in order to ensure his providers are delivering on their service-level agreements (SLAs).

But it wouldn't be worth using costly deep packet inspection for all of his network monitoring needs, so Pieper still turns to good old fashioned NetFlow analysis for a broader view of what's happening on the network. 
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Three reasons campus LAN innovation still matters
We've been so heavily focused on data center networks in recent years, that we've barely highlighted innovation in the campus LAN - and there's been plenty worth noting.

Trends in mobility and desktop virtualization alone have placed a new kind of demand on the campus LAN, requiring a need for improved LAN QoS and baked-in access security. Here are three campus LAN innovations worth noting (and probably implementing)... 
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