Extreme Networks Tackles Big Data Issues with Purview

High performance networking solutions provider Extreme Networks has released an ASIC-based technology that is intended to provide visibility into application use across the network.

Purview aims to address issues around measuring user engagement, improving mobile and social user experiences, and ensuring the integrity of mission-critical networks. According to Extreme, there are four key benefits to this new technology:

• Improving the experience of connected users;

• Enhancing organizations’ understanding of user engagements;

• Optimizing application performance; and

• Protecting against malicious or unapproved system use.

Through Purview, Extreme said customers will be able to “deliver significant improvements to their critical technology assets.”

Purview integrates with network data that carries context of users, devices, locations and applications in use. The technology also captures network data before aggregating, analyzing, correlating, characterizing and reporting on the data.

“We believe that the better the connection, the better the experience,” said Chuck Berger, president and CEO of Extreme Networks, in a prepared statement. “To guarantee a better user experience, the enterprise must see the network as a strategic business asset. With Purview, we have introduced a groundbreaking offering that leverages the network to empower customers and partners to improve interactions with end users, enhance engagement and optimize system efficiencies. This deeper level of insight allows organizations to rapidly make well-informed decisions aimed at improving the user experience.”

Purview’s value proposition is in being able to collect, analyze and report application data from the entire network, including both wired and wireless devices, core/data centers, and private and public cloud environments.