Ixia announced the purchase of Net Optics[11] on October 29, 2013.
Net Optics’ line of passive network monitoring access devices includes taps, bypass switches, regeneration taps, aggregators, data monitoring switches, and media converters.
Net Optics now offers a range of network monitoring solutions[buzzword] for telecommunications, banking, finance, government and large enterprise.
[4] In January 2012, Net Optics acquired Triplelayer, a private Australia-based distributor, and its sister company, nMetrics, which specializes in network and application analysis software.
The company’s Network Performance Monitoring products provide statistics/analysis using deep packet inspection.