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PathSolutions
TypePrivate
Industrysoftware
GenreNetwork monitoring
Founded2007
Founders
  • Tim Titus
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California,
United States
Products
  • TotalView Network Monitor
  • Call Simulator
Websitewww.pathsolutions.com

PathSolutions is a Silicon Valley startup and software company of a network troubleshooting application, founded in 2007. The company focuses on network performance management and VoIP troubleshooting software. Its main product is named TotalView.

TotalView has been used in medium to large corporations in the consumer, communications, computer networking, medical, aerospaceindustriies.

PathSolutions's corporate headquarters is in Santa Clara, California. It also has a sales office in Folsom, California.

History

PathSolutions was founded in 1999 as NetLatency by Tim Titus, a Silicon Valley network engineer. The company was renamed in 2007.[1][2]

The original product name was SwitchMonitor,[1] and was renamed TotalView in 2010.

PathSolutions also owns the trademarks: QueueVision (a full visibility report into QoS queues on MPLS links on the VoIP/UC environment);[3][4] and Total Network Visibility.[5] These features are both bundled into TotalView.

In 2014, TotalView was awarded InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award.[6] InfoWorld also picked PathSolutions as an Editor's Choice in 2014.[7]

In June 2018, the company announced TotalView version 9 at Cisco Live and demonstrated it in a TWIT.tv podcast.[8]

Products

TotalView

TotalView is a software program that performs network troubleshooting, and that continuously collects the stats from switches, routers, and other devices in a network, and reports on their status in a Graphical User Interface. It is an AI-based network monitoring model, and has interactive network diagram tools. It installs on a Windows computer (typically a server, but sometimes a PC). Features include network analysis, packet loss testing, extrapolated data for predictive analysis, a 'QueueVision' report on VoIP quality, and daily 'Network Weather Reports' via email.[8][3]

Product reviews of TotalView are available online from GestaltIT.com,[9] and BytesofCloud.com[10]

Security Operations Manager

Pathsolutions released a Security Operations Manager at RSA in February, 2020. It combines SecOps and Devops. Secure Futures printed an interview of IT specialist and podcaster Brian Chee from TWiT.tv, it is unique to him: "He's only heard of one tool, TotalView by PathSolutions, that combines DevOps and SecOps, but expects more are on the way."[11]

Network and security experts have also published articles on the security features that stood out:

• Rogue Device Detection[12]

• Security Assessments [13]

• Gremlin Detection[14] [15]

• Rapid Incident Response[16]

• Other SecOps features[17][18]

Call Simulator Tool

TotalView includes a stand-alone call simulator tool for VoIP, for quality testing of VoIP systems.[4][3] In March 2020, TWiT.tv announced that PathSolutions was for sharing the Call Simulator freely during the COVID-19 pandemic, to assist workers attempting to work from home. [19]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Popular Network Monitor Tool Provider Throws Down the Gauntlet". 2007. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/01/prweb499884.htm. 
  2. "PathSolutions.com Company". 2018. https://www.pathsolutions.com/company. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "SIP Trunking News". http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/news/2016/02/29/8324249.htm. Retrieved September 1, 2018. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "PathSolutions.com on VoIP Troubleshooting". 2018. https://www.pathsolutions.com/voip-troubleshooting/. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  5. "PathSolutions.com on Network Troubleshooting". 2018. https://www.pathsolutions.com/network-troubleshooting. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  6. "InfoWorld Announces the 2014 Technology of the Year Award". http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/infoworld-announces-the-2014-technology-of-the-year-award-recipients-1869375.htm. Retrieved August 30, 2018. 
  7. "Review: PathSolutions by InfoWorld". https://www.pathsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/PathSolutions-InfoWorld-Product-Review-eprint.pdf. Retrieved September 11, 2018. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 "This Week in Enterprise Tech, 300th Episode". https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech/episodes/300?autostart=false. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  9. Nalbone, Ken. "PathSolutions Helps Put the Data of Your Network to Good Use". Foskett Services LLC. https://gestaltit.com/exclusive/ken/pathsolutions-helps-put-the-data-of-your-network-to-good-use/. Retrieved 13 March 2019. 
  10. Gleason, Brian. "PathSolutions Presents". Bytes of Cloud. https://www.bytesofcloud.net/2019/02/pathsolutions-presents/. Retrieved 13 March 2019. 
  11. Chee, Brian (July 2020). "Multicloud may be your cloud strategy’s silver lining". Secure Futures. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/secure-futures-magazine/services-multi-cloud/35995/. 
  12. Hollingsworth, Tom (May 2020). "Rogue Device Detection Thanks To PathSolutions". Gestalt It. https://gestaltit.com/tech-field-day/tom/rogue-device-detection-thanks-to-pathsolutions/. 
  13. Hollingsworth, Tom (June 2020). "Go Time With PathSolutions". https://gestaltit.com/tech-field-day/tom/go-time-with-pathsolutions/. "Back at RSA 2020, PathSolutions released their TotalView Security Operations Manager." 
  14. Warren, Justin (May 28, 2020). "PathSolutions Security Operations Manager Helps Humans Find Security Gremlins". https://www.eigenmagic.com/2020/05/28/pathsolutions-security-operations-manager-helps-humans-find-security-gremlins/. 
  15. Elliott, Becky (May 19, 2020). "Gremlin Grappling with PathSolutions". https://beckyelliott.com/2020/05/19/grappling-with-gremlins/. "PathSolutions' piqued my interest. Who wouldn't want the ability to identify "Gremlins?"" 
  16. Coote, Rob (May 20, 2020). "Rapid Incident Reponse with PathSolutions Security Operations Manager - Security Field Day 3". https://networkcanuck.com/2020/05/20/rapid-incident-reponse-with-pathsolutions-security-operations-manager-security-field-day-3/. 
  17. Kusek, Christopher (May 18, 2020). "A Pragmatic Look into PathSolutions Visibility into SecOps". https://thepragmatictech.com/a-pragmatic-look-into-pathsolutions-visibility-into-secops/. 
  18. Rose, Zoe (June 29, 2020). "Infrastructure Intelligence for SMEs". https://www.rosesec.com/post/infrastructure-intelligence-for-smes. 
  19. Franklin, Curt (May 13, 2020). "This Week in Enterprise Tech, Episode 384". https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech/episodes/384?autostart=false. ""PathSolutions wants to help embattled IT workers deal with the huge work at home surge."" 

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