Deploying VoIP can slow down other business-critical applications significantly. Not only does VoIP consume raw bandwidth, but the required QoS policies can have an unexpected impact as well. To ensure consistent performance of converged voice and data networks, network teams must adopt a three-phase approach to converged management, involving pre-deployment assessment, impact evaluation, and continuous postproduction management and problem resolution.

What it does: Makes and services software that monitors and optimizes the performance of applications running across wide area networks.
Why it's growing: Networks are becoming ubiquitous, and employees want to be able to access everything all the time. NetQoS customers such as Boeing, American Express, and Procter & Gamble can have 1,000 global sites that need to function as one.
What's in a name: CEO Joel Trammell frequently has to explain: "QoS is an acronym for quality of service."

NetQoS has boosted its VoIP management capabilities with the latest release of its VoIP management console.

In an effort to help customers more easily manage their voice networks, NetQoS is pumping up its Performance Center product with capabilities to measure voice call quality, traffic volume and response times, among other things.

IPFIX is nearing approval just as flow export and reporting adoptions are on the rise. The IPFIX RFC defines various applications for flow export that include usage-based accounting, traffic profiling, traffic engineering, attack/intrusion detection and QoS monitoring.

NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell wins a 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Austin region

NetQoS Inc. announced that co-founder and CEO Joel Trammell received a 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in the Austin region.

Austin entrepreneurs in businesses as diverse as bottled tea and imported furniture were honored Thursday night at the annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards at the Renaissance Austin Hotel.

The business winners were Clayton Christopher, founder and CEO of Sweet Leaf Tea; Brett Hatton, CEO of Four Hands LP, a wholesale importer of furniture from around the world; and Joel Trammell, CEO of NetQoS, a network software company.

A panel of local judges picked the Austin winners from along list of nominees. The local winners have a shot at Ernst & Young's national competition. Two Austin innovators have won the national award: Michael Dell and John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.

Global WAN visibility has become increasingly important as QUALCOMM has expanded, especially in international areas, to ensure we are getting the most out of our network infrastructure investments," said Zeeshan Sabir, IT network manager with QUALCOMM. "We chose NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer because it is a proven product for scaling to global WANs and delivering the detailed data needed for efficient troubleshooting and capacity planning.

The second Brigade member heard from is Joel Trammell, co-founder and CEO of NetQoS, a provider of software that monitors application performance across WANs. Based on our e-mail swaps over the years, I'd guess that Trammell is more of a CNN/C-SPAN guy than sitcom watcher, but he's definitely seeing in this workplace TV trend a real risk for important business apps.

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has deployed network monitoring software from NetQoS Inc., Austin, Texas.

Network engineers, operations, and IT management personnel will learn the latest trends and best practices in network performance management during the 6th Annual NetQoS Symposium to be held April 18-20, 2006, in Austin, Texas.

Latency-related issues of course are a key VoIP issue. NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell says that "the number one killer of voice traffic is network latency and jitter. Latency, jitter, and packet loss causes poor audio quality and dropped calls. Latency caused by overloaded call managers or network congestion can be a major cause of poor VoIP performance."

NetQoS is…one of the biggest vendors offering a NetFlow monitoring software package.

End-to-end performance monitoring enables network engineers to view performance as the user experiences it across the entire network infrastructure, providing end-user application response time and problem isolation to the network, server or application.

The walls between IT groups are crumbling, and network professionals report that responsibility for optimal application performance is shifting to them.