Fluke spinoff targets app performance market

While Fluke Networks will continue to focus on network installation and monitoring for enterprises and telecommunications carriers, the new Colorado Springs, Colo.-based entity, Visual Network Systems, will offer products in the application, network and VoIP performance space for enterprises.

Cantor explained that enterprises today are able to look beyond the network that is far less "troublesome" given better manageability with the standardization of Ethernet and the common use of Internet Protocol.

The creation of the new company

Alongside the creation of the new company and being vocal about the new brand, two products are also being announced. One, VPM Connex, is a suite of middleware and application programming interfaces that integrate with business service management platforms such as IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView to give insight and troubleshooting capabilities into network and app performance.