#Intermapper technologies software#

I have been buying Layer 3 managed switches for several years. For radio engineers, the Ping probe and the SNMP Traffic probe are the most useful.

#Intermapper technologies software#

Because this software package targets IT management professionals, many of the included probes are for inspecting high availability routers, enterprise class servers, and the like. Intermapper accomplishes this oversight with its assortment of probes. Of particular interest is its Intermapper, which allows accidental admins, such as we, to map critical devices on our networks and have them watched continuously. Our networks are crucial to our business, so I finally installed that net. Like it or not, radio engineers are managing several very complex networks with hundreds of clients, miles of cabling, and countless switches and routers - a CAT-5 high-wire act far above the ground without a net! For all too many of us our network is an inky-black abyss with nothing more than some link lights to indicate its operational status. We now find ourselves surrounded by computers, network devices, and network-enabled devices. Fortunately, cost has become an inverse function of MooreвЂ™s Law. Liberal interpretations of MooreвЂ™s Law seem to apply everywhere in technology - data density, processor speed, etc. Gordon Moore observed that transistor density in integrated circuits had doubled every year since the ICs invention. Today, complex parallel optical technology speeds Ethernet up to 100Gb/s. It took two decades from our first humble 2.5Mb/s ARCnet bus network to grow into the GigE spans we now have in place. No surprise though, that this metamorphosis didnвЂ™t happen overnight.

The last reel-to-reel and triple-decker were tossed out years ago in favor of the mighty computer.

Terms like TCP/IP and router have replaced the well-worn phrases of yesteryear like turntable, tape deck, and even CD and DAT machine around my office. Where we once had 3Г—5 cards, carts, and LPs for our audio sources, we now have an accumulation of 45 computers. IT is quickly become the primary concern of nearly every radio engineer.