Smarts InCharge won our Editor's Choice award, primarily because it handles correlation better than any other product we tested. Aprisma's Spectrum followed closely, thanks to its strong usability and correlation abilities. Aprisma's super-low pricing for our single-site scenario also makes the product worthy of a Best Value award, despite its high quote in the larger setting.
Micromuse Netcool/Omnibus and BMC Patrol Enterprise Manager have the best architecture for focusing lots of events, but neither has the superior event correlation abilities shown by the products from Smarts and Aprisma.
All these products are complex, so plan on reading the manual thrice. And have your wallet ready: You'll need professional services!
Only two products--Smarts InCharge Solutions Suite and Aprisma's Spectrum xsight--perform Layer 2 network discovery. The fact that Smarts stores the discovery results in an object-oriented fashion helps give the product a deeper understanding of the network topology and greatly aids its ability to correlate events accurately.
In fact, this discovery method is a big part of the secret to Smarts' success and garnered the product our Editor's Choice award. For a product to understand the significance of an event in any network, a basic level of topology must be known.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
