Universal Indicator provides application performance index.
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Application Quality Score(TM) (AQS) can accept value between 0 to 10 to reflect performance of application over wide-area network. Normalized and universal indicator is suited for data-transfer, interactive, and real time applications such as back-up, Citrix, and video streaming. Product can be aggregated over time for different links and/or for entire network.
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Ipanema Launches Universal Indicator of Application Performance over the WAN: Application Quality Score
Closes the Gap Between Network and Application Performance Management
CONCORD, Mass., Oct. 24, 2006 -- Ipanema Technologies, the leader in application traffic management systems for wide-area networks, today announced the launch of a universal indicator of application performance over the WAN: Application Quality Score(TM) (AQS).
Traditional flow performance metrics such as packet loss, delay or jitter are too technical and numerous to provide a simple indication of application performance over networks. To allow its service provider partners to offer simple application SLAs, Ipanema has created the Application Quality Score(TM) or AQS(TM). The AQS(TM) is a universal and simple indicator of the network's contribution to application performance. It is similar in philosophy to ITU's E-Model, which allows computing the network contribution to VoIP quality using the Mean Opinion Score (MOS).
The AQS(TM) can take a value between 0 to 10 to reflect the performance of an application over the WAN. The AQS(TM) is a normalized and universal indicator that can be applied to all types of applications, either data-transfer such as back-up, interactive such as Citrix or real-time such as video streaming. It can be aggregated over time for different links and/or for the entire network.
"By creating the AQS(TM), Ipanema further closes the gap between network performance management and application performance management," said Frank Lyonnet, director of product management at Ipanema. "With the AQS(TM) there is now a common language to set objectives and measure performance achieved on the network."
About Ipanema Technologies (www.ipanematech.com) Founded in 1999, Ipanema Technologies is a provider of advanced application traffic management solutions that maximize network application performance. Its solutions are utilized by organizations deploying VoIP, ERP applications and other bandwidth-hungry projects as well as those embarking on ITIL projects. Network integrators market the Ipanema system to enterprises, while telecom service providers and network managed service providers offer it as a service.
The Ipanema system is simple, automated and scalable and is unique in guaranteeing critical application performance regardless of network conditions. It enables this by providing full visibility of application flows over the network, optimizing network resources through a combination of integrated technologies and rightsizing bandwidth according to application performance objectives. Ipanema's solutions are deployed in more than 75 countries; its customers include large organizations such as the French Army, L'Oreal, Sanofi, Europcar, Rhodia and Lexmark. Ipanema is based in France, U.S, Germany and UK.
