Posted: 03Jan2012
Once again we will be sponsoring a Beer and Gear event at NANOG’s meeting, so stop by and talk with us while you are in San Diego.
Posted: 16Dec2011
Cariden will be exhibiting again in Paris this year. Come by our booth to learn about technical innovations in IP/MPLS Traffic Management.
Learn more about the event and register here
Posted: 03Oct2011
Integration of MATE software with Junosphere Lab delivers comprehensive and cost-effective planning, simulation, and test environment.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – 3 October, 2011 – Cariden Technologies, Inc. today announced availability of a special version of its widely used Cariden MATE™ software for users of the new Junosphere™ Lab service from Juniper Networks. This joint solution will help service providers and other network operators plan, model, and test changes to their networks and understand the full impact those changes will have before implementing them.
The combination of technologies enables network operators to easily build a model of their existing network. By providing a virtual machine within the Junosphere Lab environment running the MATE software, this solution allows a user to import an IGP database from an operational network into the MATE software. This model can then be used to plan changes to topology, deployed protocols, capacity, and the routing of traffic flows. The effect of these proposed changes can be seen through the MATE software. Once a new design looks promising, the user can configure a network within the Junosphere Lab environment using the MATE software. This network can be used for simulation and testing to qualify the Juniper Networks® Junos® operating system and to validate operational procedures. Because of the low cost of building a network lab in a virtual environment compared to deploying live ones, Junosphere Lab allows testing to be done at full scale, rather than the usual practice of testing with a smaller network. For continued ease of deployment, network operators can use the Cariden MATE virtual machine directly within their Junosphere Lab environment for the duration of their access to Juniper’s service.
Commenting on today’s announcement, Judy Beningson, Vice President and General Manager, Virtual Junos Business Unit at Juniper Networks, said, “We are very pleased to see advanced capacity planning and traffic management solutions such as Cariden’s MATE product be made available through Junosphere Lab. Together, these offerings deliver a more cost-efficient means of developing accurate designs before deploying live networks. Using this solution, our customers can be confident their planned network changes will have the desired results and any risks of unexpected network impact will be minimized.”
Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a software company serving telecommunications providers worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has maintained steady growth and profitability with its industry standard software for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. Networks serving 85% of the U.S. broadband customers have adopted Cariden software, as have 7 of the 11 global Tier 1 ISPs. Cariden’s success is fueled by its technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Cariden, Cariden MATE, and the Cariden logo are trademarks of Cariden Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logos and Junosphere are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.
Cariden Technologies Media Contact
Phil Griston
Cariden Technologies, Inc.
+1 650 564 9200 ext. 898
media@cariden.com
Posted: 22Sep2011
* Come by the Cariden demonstration booth to learn technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Connected Partners Update
September 28, 2011
4:10 PM (Pacific), Marcello
Come meet and listen to our CTO, Arash Afrakhteh, as he presents the joint value of Cariden’s MATE offerings with Alcatel Lucent’s SAM and CPAM products. Arash will discuss how the integration of these products provides a complete life-cycle solution for planning and managing networks.
* SReXperts is a by-invitation-only event.
Posted: 07Sep2011
Network Management and Performance panel
October 19, 2011
2:00 - 3:30 (Eastern)
Come listen to Guilherme Tuche’s presentation entitled “MPLS-TE Planning and Deployment for Peering Links.” This presentation is a case study of a large telecommunications company who used MATE software to plan its MPLS network. Using MATE simulation tools, this provider has been able to plan ahead for network outages and make maximum use of available capacity while improving resiliency.
Posted: 04Aug2011
Cariden MATE Release 4.5 further expands applicability of functionality for network operators and those providing planning and engineering services to them.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – 4 August, 2011 – Cariden Technologies, Inc. announced availability of Cariden MATE™ Software Release 4.5. The new release continues the company’s drive to reduce the complexity of planning and operating multiservice networks, while simplifying the dissemination of network data and analysis within broader business systems.
As service providers continue developing converged services, complex architecture and routing designs are required for managing differentiated levels of service. The new multi-topology support assists providers in managing these complexities by allowing traffic management over separate control planes simultaneously.
Always a strength of the MATE solution, Release 4.5 further integrates automated network discovery with planning and design. Network models suitable for long-term planning, which contain daily and weekly traffic profiles, can be created automatically from minute-by-minute network snapshots. This integration provides a common framework for traffic management for operations, engineering, designing, and planning.
With the rich level of network data and analysis now available from the MATE interface, users can integrate that information within other business decision support systems. The introduction of an API to the leading open-source reporting engine, Jasper Reports, simplifies this task. This support also enhances the value of MATE software when it is used for delivering managed services to network operators, especially when those services integrate MATE functionality with other technology.
Release 4.5, as is standard with all the MATE releases, also includes several smaller features to address enhancement requests from Cariden’s customers.
Commenting on this release, Alan Gous, Vice President of Product Management at Cariden, said, “Our commitment is to listen to our customers as we deliver visibility, efficiency, and automation to their networks. They have told us that they are expanding the use of the network data and analysis they derive from MATE solutions throughout their companies. The primary goal of this release is to make that expansion easier and more productive.”
Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a software company serving telecommunications providers worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has maintained steady growth and profitability with its industry standard software for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. Networks serving 85% of the U.S. broadband customers have adopted Cariden software, as have 7 of the 11 global Tier 1 ISPs. Cariden’s success is fueled by its technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Cariden Technologies Media Contact
Phil Griston
Cariden Technologies, Inc.
+1 650 564 9200 ext. 898
media@cariden.com
Posted: 11Jul2011
Cariden MATE 4.4 successfully certified with Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM 9.0 and 5650 CPAM 5.0
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – 11 July, 2011 – Cariden Technologies, Inc., supplier of industry-standard software for IP/MPLS traffic management, today announced that Cariden MATE™ Software Release 4.4 has been successfully certified with the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) version 9.0 and the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM) version 5.0.
Cariden has been working with Alcatel-Lucent for many years and is an active member of the OSS Connected Partner Program. As a ConnectedPlus member, and with its commitment to achieve certification for each release of MATE software, Cariden is reassuring customers as to the quality of interoperability between the three products. The combination of MATE software, 5620 SAM, and 5650 CPAM provide integrated solutions for the network life cycle from planning and design, to implementing, operating, and optimizing the network. By sharing the discovered network topology, traffic measurements, and other relevant data, such as traffic engineering information, the integrated solution minimizes management traffic and additional impact on the network while simplifying deployment and maintenance.
This integration also enhances each product’s capabilities as demonstrated in the following examples.
Commenting on this successful certification, Arman Maghbouleh, President of Cariden, offered, “Cariden has had a successful partnership with Alcatel-Lucent for many years, and this certification is proof of our commitment to continual strengthening of the relationship we have developed. Our customers expect their suppliers to work together to provide efficient management solutions that they can confidently implement in their networks. Alcatel-Lucent understands the need to meet this requirement and collaborates closely with us to ensure our products interoperate effectively, while helping our customers get the best from their networks.”
Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a software company serving telecommunications providers worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has maintained steady growth and profitability with its industry standard software for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. Networks serving 85% of the U.S. broadband customers have adopted Cariden software, as have 7 of the 11 global Tier 1 ISPs. Cariden’s success is fueled by its technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Cariden Technologies Media Contact
Phil Griston
Cariden Technologies, Inc.
+1 650 564 9200 ext. 898
media@cariden.com
Posted: 10Jun2011
New Layer 1 and VPN functionality extends value of the leading planning and network engineering traffic management tool.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – 10 June, 2011 – Cariden Technologies, Inc. announced availability of Cariden™ MATE™ Software Release 4.4. This latest release introduces customer-driven features for Layer 1 (L1) and virtual private networks (VPNs), thus further strengthening MATE software’s position as the industry standard for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering.
With the new L1 integration, users can create and view their physical layer topology, including identifying L1 links in shared risk link groups (SRLGs), within the same model as their Layer 3 (L3) network topology. This capability gives network operators a more complete view of the network, enabling their planners to more effectively design the network to meet performance and protection requirements. By specifying how L3 circuits route over L1 links, users can simulate the impact this routing has on bandwidth utilization and network resiliency in normal operation and under failure conditions.
Another new MATE feature, VPN modeling, allows users to visualize Layer 2 (L2) and L3 VPNs configured on their networks. This enables engineers and planners to identify and evaluate the effect of infrastructure failures, planned configuration changes, and traffic growth on customer VPNs. For example, service providers who sell strict SLAs with their business VPNs can use MATE software to investigate whether any VPNs should be rerouted before performing maintenance on the network, thus avoiding outages caused by congestion.
Commenting on the new features, Alan Gous, Vice President of Product Management at Cariden, said, “Our mission is to build the most usable tools for managing the life cycle of networks from planning and design, through network engineering, to operations. These new features improve visibility into and control over the operation of both planned and existing networks. We believe they strengthen our position as the leader in traffic assurance for network operators.”
Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a software company serving telecommunications providers worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has maintained steady growth and profitability with its industry standard software for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. Networks serving 85% of the U.S. broadband customers have adopted Cariden software, as have 7 of the 11 global Tier 1 ISPs. Cariden’s success is fueled by its technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Cariden Technologies Media Contact
Phil Griston
Cariden Technologies, Inc.
+1 650 564 9200 ext. 898
media@cariden.com
Posted: 01Jun2011
Come by the Cariden demonstration booth to learn technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
On June 8, Pete Crocker, Technical Director for EMEA, will speak on traffic engineering with MATE software. (Stream 5, 16:10 - 17:00, Warsaw I)
Posted: 29Apr2011
Arman Maghbouleh, President, will be participating in the following events.
Tutorial: Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering
Cariden, Cisco, and pmacct; 12 June, 2011, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Review current industry best practices for planning and traffic engineering in IP/MPLS networks. Technologies and approaches will be compared, leveraging experience and case studies, including a number of Tier 1 deployments.
Panel: Capacity Planning
Cariden will join multiple users and vendors, including our customer Qwest Communications, to discuss use of capacity planning tools; 15 June, 2011, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM in the Grand ballroom
Related Information
Posted: 23Feb2011
Managing Cloud Resource, Service, and Revenue
Cariden will participate with other vendors in a demonstration of the management of cloud products, including resources, SLAs, customer experience, and revenue. This project demonstrates the successful operational interdependency of the major management functions in a cloud computing environment.
Posted: 22Feb2011
Slides: Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering
Cariden Technologies, in coordination with NTT Communications, was pleased to sponsor this technology workshop. Delegates had the chance to listen to industry experts and join discussions on experiences, challenges, and successes in network and operational management. We hope you enjoyed the session and it helped you to develop effective strategies to optimize your network.
March 21, 12:30-6:00 PM
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pre-Capacity Latam 2011
Posted: 22Feb2011
Design Validation and Enhanced Visibility Allows Cox to Make More Informed Technical and Financial Decisions in Network Operations
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – 22 February, 2011 – Cariden Technologies, Inc. announced today that Cox Communications, the third largest US cable TV company, has selected Cariden™ MATE™ as its primary network engineering tool for supporting critical data management functions of day-to-day operations. Cox has chosen Cariden MATE because of its unique ability to support planning, engineering, and operational workflows with unmatched visibility into the network.
Cariden MATE is being used to analyze and confirm that existing and proposed network designs can withstand a variety of network component failures without causing any impact to client services. MATE is also being used to provide visibility into the network’s MPLS paths and statistics, allowing engineers to understand end-to-end traffic patterns and find unexpected contributors to traffic spikes. Coupled with MATE’s ability to report historical traffic patterns across the entire network, this functionality allows clients to make informed technical and financial decisions for infrastructure enhancements. By using MATE, Cox can have confidence that planned upgrades are justified and can be implemented without impact to existing customer services.
Commenting on the announcement, Torryon Coleman, Director of Technical Operations for Cox, said, “Our Operations team now has the ability to see, in a very organized manner, all our network interface and LSP statistics in real time. With this information we can isolate and react to problems much quicker than before, as well as be proactive in many circumstances to potential or upcoming problems.”
Arman Maghbouleh, President of Cariden, said, “Cox is recognized as an innovator and technical leader in delivering IP-based services. Cariden is privileged to work with Cox as they continue to deploy world-class products and services to the marketplace.”
Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a software company serving telecommunications providers worldwide. Founded in 2001, the company has maintained steady growth and profitability with its industry standard software for IP/MPLS capacity planning and traffic engineering. Networks serving 85% of the U.S. broadband customers have adopted Cariden software, as have 7 of the 11 global Tier 1 ISPs. Cariden’s success is fueled by its technical innovations in delivering visibility, efficiency, and automation to networks.
Cariden Technologies Media Contact
Phil Griston
Cariden Technologies, Inc.
+1 650 564 9200 ext. 898
media@cariden.com
Posted: 04Jan2011
Slides
Come by the Cariden Technologies exhibit to learn how we can help you bring manageability to your network. On Feb 1, Arman Maghbouleh, President, will speak on the “Deployment Experiences for IP Fast Convergence” panel.
Posted: 03Jan2011
Come see a live demonstration of MATE and visit with Cariden representatives at our booth during the Beer ‘n Gear reception.
Posted: 18Oct2010
On November 16, 2010, come listen to a joint presentation on “Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering.” Presenters include Thomas Telkamp (Director of Network Consulting, Cariden), Clarence Filsfils (Cisco), and Paolo Lucente (pmacct).
Slides: Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering
Posted: 17Sep2010
On October 27, 2010, come listen to Arman Maghbouleh, President, present the results of a survey of 59 worldwide telecommunication providers.
Posted: 13May2010
On June 2, 2010, come listen to Thomas Telkamp, Director of Network Consulting, describe a case study of traffic engineering automation in a large, national IP/MPLS backbone delivering voice and Internet services.
Network Automation 2010: How to Successfully Reduce OPEX
Posted: 09Feb2010
Cariden offers expertise in IP/MPLS traffic engineering. Visit our booth to learn more.
Posted: 05Nov2009
Thomas Telkamp, Director of Network Consulting at Cariden, is giving a presentation on a methodology and simple empirical rule for capacity allocation on backbone links.
Posted: 26Oct2009
Cariden is a Gold-level host of this event. Visit us at our exhibit in Booth 204.
Posted: 25Oct2009
Thomas Telkamp presents on Best Practices in Network Planning and Traffic Engineering
Posted: 19Oct2009
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event on the evening of Monday, October 19, 2009.
Posted: 11Sep2009
Thomas Telkamp presents on Peering Planning Cooperation: Failover Matrices
Posted: 11Sep2009
John Evans presents on Best Practices in Network Planning
Posted: 10Sep2009
Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, has selected Cariden MATE as its primary solution for Network Planning. Details are available in the Tinet/Cariden joint press release.
Posted: 14Jun2009
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event on the evening of Monday June 15, 2009.
Posted: 25Jan2009
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event on the evening of Monday January 26, 2009.
Aaron Hughes will host the BOF Peering session the evening of Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Posted: 19Oct2008
Cariden is a Gold-level host of this event. Visit us at our exhibit in Booth 105.
Posted: 12Oct2008
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday October 13, 2008.
Posted: 01Jun2008
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday June 2, 2008.
Arman Maghbouleh and Rached Blili will be presenting a tutorial session on “Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks” (schedule TBD)
Posted: 13Mar2008
Visit Cariden at the 8th DE-CIX Technical Workshop where Thomas Telkamp, Cariden’s Director of Network Consulting will be presenting “Peering Planning Cooperation: Failover Matrices.”
Posted: 17Feb2008
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday February 18, 2008.
Posted: 28Oct2007
Cariden is a Gold-level host of this event. Visit us at our exhibit in Booth 101. Arman Maghbouleh and Thomas Telkamp are presenting “Measuring and Estimating Traffic Matrices in MPLS Networks” Tuesday (30th) at 2:00PM.
Posted: 14Oct2007
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday October 15, 2007.
Posted: 03Jun2007
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday June 4, 2007.
Posted: 30Oct2006
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday February 5, 2007.
Posted: 01Oct2006
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday October 9, 2006.
Posted: 20May2006
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday June 5, 2006.
Posted: 10Apr2006
On Friday April 27, 2006, Thomas Telkamp will be talking about ‘Peering Planning Cooperation Without Revealing Confidential Information’ during the plenary session.
Posted: 18Jan2006
Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden’s President, will present on “Peering Planning Cooperation without Revealing Confidential Information,” on Wednesday, March 2.
Posted: 10Nov2005
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday February 13, 2006.
Posted: 03Oct2005
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday October 24, 2005.
Thomas Telkamp, Cariden’s Director of Network Consulting, will present a tutorial on ‘Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks’ on Sunday October 23 (revised version from previous NANOG).
Posted: 19Sep2005
On Monday October 10, 2005, Thomas Telkamp will be talking about “Estimating the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks” during the plenary session.
Posted: 15May2005
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear event in the evening of Monday May 16, 2005.
Thomas Telkamp, Cariden’s Director of Network Consulting, will present a tutorial on “Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks on Sunday May 15.
Posted: 31Jan2005
Thomas Telkamp, Cariden’s Director of Network Consulting, will be participating in the MPLS debate at the end of day one of the conference (Wednesday February 16, 2005).
Posted: 28Jan2005
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear on January 31, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Slides: IGP Tuning in an MPLS Network
Dr. Mark Horneffer, of Deutsche Telekom, is presenting a session on how to use an IGP metric-based approach to traffic engineering its global IP/MPLS-based network.
Posted: 05Oct2004
Visit Cariden as a sponsor of APRICOT (Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies) February 16-23, 2005 in Kyoto, Japan.
Slides: Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks
Thomas Telkamp (Cariden) and Stefan Schnitter (Deutsche Telekom) will present a tutorial on “Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks” on Monday February 21 (16:00-17:30). Thomas will give a conference presentation on Wednesday February 25 (session 16:00-17:30) on the same topic.
Posted: 01Oct2004
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear on October 18, 2004 in Reston, Virginia.
Posted: 01Sep2004
Cariden featured as part of “end-to-end network solution built on Cisco infrastructure.” September 5-10, 2004.
Posted: 01May2004
Visit Cariden at the NANOG Beer-n-Gear on May 21, 2004 in Francisco, California.
Posted: 01Mar2004
Cariden presents on Backbone Capacity Planning/QoS at technical seminar for network engineers using Cisco infrastructure.
Posted: 04Feb2004
Cariden will present a “Traffic Engineering Beyond MPLS” tutorial at the APRICOT 2004 conference. Most recent discussions of Traffic Engineering have centered on protocol enhancements for MPLS TE. In practice, however, TE is tightly bound with network topology and operational considerations. In this tutorial, we provide a practical overview of traditional pre-MPLS TE practices, MPLS options, and new computer-aided approaches.
Posted: 05Jan2004
Visit Cariden’s table at NANOG 30 Beer-n-Gear February 8-10, 2004 MIAMI, FLORIDA
Posted: 20Dec2003
Cariden to feature in the 6th annual Cisco Powered Network Operations Symposium March 14-19, 2004, San Jose, CA, The 6th annual Cisco Powered Network Operations Symposium provides Cisco Powered Network Program members a chance to learn about Cisco technologies and end-to-end network solutions built on Cisco infrastructure.
Posted: 11Feb2003
Cariden is presenting “Metric-based Traffic Engineering: Panacea or Snake Oil? A Real-World Study.” This presentation summarizes a Cariden investigation of metric-based traffic engineering and explicit routing on six real networks. The study points to the surprising conclusion that metric-based control of routing, despite its theoretical limitations, performs well for real operational networks.
Posted: 05Feb2003
Cariden Technologies announces the availability of its metric-based traffic engineering software for IP networks. This software, which is part of the MATE framework for capacity planning and traffic engineering, allows optimal control of routing traffic without requiring Layer 2 technologies such as MPLS or ATM.
Posted: 31Jan2003
MATE 2.0 supports quality of service analysis (with or without Diffserv) and enhances the reporting and visualization capabilities of 1.x releases. Testimonials from users point to unprecedented ease-of-use and speed.
Posted: 10Oct2002
Cariden presents operational experiences and efficiency analyses of the myriad of routing and protection choices for designing and operating MPLS networks. The title of the presentation “An Empirical Comparison of MPLS Architectures.”
Posted: 01Aug2002
Cariden’s president co-chairs Industry Watch program and presents “Advances in Multilayer Routing—Design of Express Routes” at OptiComm 2002. Industry leaders, including carriers, vendors, and investors, presented their view of up-and-coming technologies and the business climate at the premier conference devoted to optical technologies.
Posted: 03Feb2002
MATE 2.6 adds a number of features aimed at stramlining MATE deployments and ease of use in Network Operation Centers. Complete command line access to all the MATE modules is coupled with MATE GUI framework to provide flexibile and simplified deployment in many planning and operations scenarios.
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