By buying Avesta, Visual will gain event management and application monitoring capabilities that carriers can use to offer customers more sophisticated network services. Event management software would gather data from routers and servers, make sense of it, and when necessary generate alarms.
Application monitoring tracks transaction response time at the application layer.
The purchase is part of a string of expected acquisitions that Visual CEO Scott Stouffer laid out in a recent interview with Network World . Visual's goal is to build a management platform that can automatically fine-tune service provider network performance in response to demand. In addition, it will enable better customer monitoring of service-level agreements, Stouffer says. Feedback Tell us your thoughts on this article or the issues raised in it. When you click Submit, you'll be taken back to this article.