Nectar Brings Visibility To VoIP

Company:

Headquarters: Farmingdale, N.Y.

Technology Sector: VoIP

Key Product: Nectar/CMP (Converged Management Platform)

Year Founded: 2007

Number of Channel Partners: 10 worldwide

Ideal Channel Partner: Managed Service Provider

Why You Should Care: Through its recently launched partner program, Nectar Services offers a network monitoring and management platform that provides a single pane of glass view into the entire network, including both VoIP and data assets.

The Lowdown: Keeping an eye on the network is tedious, especially now that voice, data and other applications have converged. Nectar Services, a wholly-owned division of solution provider Juma Technology, is a sort of microscope to add visibility into the various worlds of voice, data and applications as companies transition to VoIP.

David Giangano, Nectar's president of global channels, said Nectar/CMP (Converged Management Platform) software, the company's flagship offering, provides deep inspection of

voice, data assets and applications, offering a single view into the entire network and its capabilities while enabling monitoring and management functions.

For the channel, that opens up the ability to tie all systems together and monitor them from one single view. It also enables partners to support converged networks in multi-vendor environments to "stop the finger-pointing," Giangano said.

"If you can pinpoint what's wrong, that lowers the mean time to repair, which lowers the risk," Giangano said.

Nectar offers a "quick view" to determine whether a problem on the network is voice-related or data-related. Currently, channel partners are using Nectar to manage and monitor complex networks and offer managed services around those capabilities, he said. Along with CMP, Nectar also offers SIP-based services and hosted telephony, which partners can deploy for additional revenue streams.

According to Giangano, Nectar's various services platforms ease the transition to VoIP, unifying disparate systems and supporting mixed telephony environments to help companies preserve their investment and boost efficiency.