Mass. Quallaby's Proviso 2.0 software for network monitoring and service assurance is based on Sun Microsystems' Solaris platform. It is designed to let NSPs build centralized network performance data marts that maintain all the network data so they can optimize network performance and manage service delivery. With more than 1.3 terabytes of data in the storage system, Quallaby can benchmark very large performance numbers involved in a scalable network inventory of hundreds of thousands of resources.
Models help NSPs understand such issues as data behavior and latency in growing networks.
Three fiber channels connect the servers to the EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage system using EMC PowerPath and EMC Control Center software. There are two Oracle database servers with support from Precise SQL tuning software, with a gigabit link through the layer-3 switch. Mass. There are terminal servers from Xyplex, plus a Sun tape library with 11 racks of tape space currently holding four terabytes of data. Plans are already underway to increase the capacity of the storage system to five terabytes and to have 100 collectors by year-end. Greg Ferguson, Quallaby CEO, views the lab as key to keeping ahead of the curve on customer needs and product development.