[HIB]Move To Faster Networks Fuels VSS Monitoring’s First Round

A rise in networking speeds is breathing life into a new category of network monitoring products, and VSS Monitoring Inc. has benefited as venture capital firms take notice. The maker of network-traffic capture appliances secured $20 million in Series A financing from Battery Ventures, the first institutional funding for a company that began selling products in 2005. VSS’s equipment monitors traffic as it moves across the network and passes the relevant portions to a variety of network performance, monitoring and security appliances. This helps companies improve network performance, prevent bottlenecks and enforce security. This is becoming especially important as companies, driven largely by the bandwidth needs of virtualization technologies, are upgrading their networks to 10 gigabits per second from 1 gigabit, said Neeraj Agrawal, a general partner with Battery Ventures. Since many companies’ current monitoring appliances max out at 1 gigabit, having equipment from VSS enables them to continue to use the equipment without replacing it with newer, faster versions, he said.

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