Is the IP monitoring space getting fragged?
Apparent Networks Inc., a network-monitoring software maker that has moved its headquarters to Wellesley from Vancouver, has spent the past year transforming its predeployment diagnostic tool into a real-time, application-specific monitoring product. The move has paid dividends, with the company boasting customers such as Boeing Co. and Hewlett-Packard Co. It is also the latest example of the rampant fragmentation of the Internet protocol (IP) network-monitoring sector. Companies such as Bedford’s Empirix Inc., Chelmsford’s Brix Networks Inc., Mansfield’s IneoQuest Technologies Inc. and Portsmouth, N.H.’s Psytechnics Ltd. all provide test and monitoring hardware or software. Yet as IP networks become more complex, each has drifted into a specific area of expertise. Leading Apparent’s push is newly appointed CEO Jack Sweeney, the former CEO of Westwood’s Network Intelligence Corp., which was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2006. He also served as vice president of mergers and acquisitions for
