HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - March 28, 2006 - Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT) today announced the expansion of third party manageability by its DSView® 3 management software through an agreement with Uptime Devices.
Uptime Devices is a leader in environmental monitoring and management of the data center physical environment. The agreement will allow Avocent DSView 3 software customers to remotely access and control the Uptime Devices SensorHub equipment to monitor the temperature, humidity, airflow, water, voltage, and security of their data centers. DSView 3 software will notify users when the conditions exceed defined limits and provide a way to resolve environmental problem remotely.
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School Curbs Bandwidth Use, Supports Emergency Hurricane Communications
Chapter 16 described the unique set of problems encountered by network administrators in educational environments. This chapter will move the traffic management discussion from the theoretical to the practical by taking a look at a university production environment.
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La., deployed a traffic management system to control peer-to-peer (P2P) application use by students that was bogging down the network with unprecedented bandwidth consumption. More recently, the university was called upon to provide guaranteed communications to emergency responders during Hurricane Katrina. The university used an Allot Communications NetEnforcer traffic management system to address both situations.
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