Sockeye Networks boosts network performance and control with new global data feed.

Sockeye Networks(TM) has enhanced its flagship GlobalRoute(SM) service with a newly developed global data feed, Sockeye announced today. The GlobalRoute data feed sets a new standard in the industry for accuracy, coverage and scalability, and allows fine-grained routing control not possible with alternative approaches.

Global topology data enables the Sockeye Networks GlobalRoute service to proactively determine alternate best-cost, best-performance routes for Internet protocol (IP) traffic. To generate the data feed, Sockeye-developed software analyzes raw data collected from an infrastructure of geographically diverse servers. This patent-pending software allows the GlobalRoute service to accurately determine the performance of available paths before rerouting IP traffic. For customers this will mean even greater performance improvements and more granular cost-based balancing decisions.

"The Sockeye Networks GlobalRoute service has improved performance across all of our network destinations significantly," said Scott J. Ellentuch, President of TTSG Internet Services, Inc. "By leveraging global topology data GlobalRoute has scaled extremely well in our environment and has not required us to make any changes to our site infrastructure."

"Akamai Technologies has always believed in the development of Sockeye's service as a leading solution for enterprises and service providers seeking to optimize IP connections, and we look forward to continuing to work with Sockeye as a business partner," said Robert Wood, senior director of business development at Akamai. Akamai is a minority shareholder in Sockeye Networks.

Sockeye's GlobalRoute service proactively optimizes IP connectivity for enterprises and service providers multihomed to the Internet. Sockeye sells GlobalRoute as a service consisting of a customer-controlled measurement appliance that combines end-to-end traffic measurement and analysis with automatic routing capabilities. GlobalRoute greatly improves application performance, reduces bandwidth costs and increases visibility for network managers.