On Wednesday June 18th, I was in San Francisco for the GigaOm Structure conference. Other members of the Sideband Networks team including our CEO - Zane Taylor, VP of Engineering - Roger Choplin and CMO - Sherman Tang were also in attendance. The quality of speakers was wonderful and the way the fire side chats worked kept…
The Complexity of building a proper Network Topology
Dynamic, Live Network Topology Keeping track of their network topology is something that all companies struggle with. On a daily basis new equipment comes online, old equipment goes offline, BYOD devices appear and disappear. With VLANs, VxLANs, MPLS and other overlay technologies, network topology is constantly evolving. To best diagnose networking issues, network engineers need…
Mitigating the bite of a DDoS attack
One of our customers experienced a large Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) on their network. This had an impact on their business until the resolution was implemented. Even with a properly configured firewall, the attack saturated the customer’s link to the Internet and disrupted some of their internal network; it wiped out all of…
ONS 2014 Wrap-Up
My personal wrap up of the events at ONS 2014. Today was the last day of the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA. Here are a few thoughts I have on the way Open Networking is moving. 1.) The way forward is automation Most of the keynote presentation focused on the importance of automation….
Sideband Networks at Open Networking Summit 2014
This week multiple members of Sideband Networks’ executive team will be at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California. Sherman Tang, CMO and Steven Noble, CTO will be available for discussions about the recently announced Sideband XRE products. vXRE, the virtualized version of our XRE appliance is an important part of SDN, providing visibility,…
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A message from our CEO
A message from our CEO Today marks an exciting new chapter in the network monitoring and performance industry. I am pleased to announce that Sideband Networks has officially launched the industry’s first unified solution that provides the User with a full understanding of their network and a new perspective on network intelligence. This marks the…