Mu Line Blog
Posted under: CTO Workbench, Front Line, Mu External Test Lab - METL
Mu's had quite a few customer and prospect demonstrations around newer Service Level Traffic variation and Mu-4000 platform automation capabilities during the last month. From 20-31 October the every 2 year MSF GMI event, from 19-22 October there was MPLS 2008 and on Nov 6 a customer case-study seminar for leading operators and vendors. This week offers IMS-based IPTV demonstrations at TelcoTV in Anaheim.
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By Thomas Maufer on 11 November 2008 - 09:22:20 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, CTO Workbench, Front Line
Mu's operator and vendor customers are scoring a competitive advantage by taking service complexity head on to ensure their specific service or product offering rises above all others.
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By Adam Stein on 19 October 2008 - 11:04:21 PM.
Posted under: Competitors, CTO Workbench, Front Line
The recent Iron Chef event at Black Hat was a +1 for fuzzing where it was more effective than static code analysis (SCA) according to Dark Reading. It's also very interesting to me (and others) that both approaches found different bugs, but fuzzing found the important one (obviously) to do with interaction of the application with the rest of the environment.
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By Kowsik Guruswamy on 19 August 2008 - 04:36:57 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, Competitors, CTO Workbench, Front Line, Mu External Test Lab - METL, Overseas Observations
And now, the exciting conclusion to "Verifying Service Readiness with DoS"...
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By Ken Elwell on 08 July 2008 - 04:14:17 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, Competitors, CTO Workbench, Front Line, Mu External Test Lab - METL, Overseas Observations
Recently one of my European colleagues fielded a pretty important customer question about our Denial of Service module’s relevancy to the telecom industry. These customers have been using Service Level Traffic Variations pretty successfully for a year or so stateside to find potential points of failure and get them fixed. So what makes the Mu’s Denial of Service engine particularly useful to service providers?
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By Ken Elwell on 08 July 2008 - 02:03:17 PM.
Posted under: Front Line, Mu External Test Lab - METL
NXT 2008 had heavy interest in several NGN topics including:
# Ensuring real-time VoIP quality for all portions of an operator’s network
# Building reliable and available IPTV deployments by eliminating product weaknesses
# Figuring out what IP applications would attract the most business – and operator subscribers
# Preventing downtime for next-generation network applications like IPTV and VoIP, including deployments based on the IMS Architecture
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By Adam Stein on 23 June 2008 - 05:12:57 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, Front Line
A bigger part of the interest comes from the collision of norms happening right now within these organizations. The collision is between those who grew up in the Telco business and those who grew up in the world of IP, and at the heart of the conflict is the issue of reliability, availability, and security of end user services. This is also precisely where Mu Dynamics adds its value.
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By Dave Kresse on 23 May 2008 - 12:04:25 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, Front Line
Mu is updating its company name to “Mu Dynamics” to reflect a growing solution set around the dynamic nature of network services, applications and wide range of end to end network products. Mu continues to address a broader set of problems faced by customers that focus on the challenges posed by service, application, and network downtime.
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By Dave Kresse on 20 May 2008 - 10:45:56 AM.
Posted under: Front Line, Mu External Test Lab - METL
Downtime costs money, and organized testing is one of the only formal ways to manage or reduce downtime. Mu showed it's newest VoIP robustness and service assurance tools in 3 very public locations last week: cisco's Toolapalooza, Software Test & Performance and SIPit-22. This blog posting focuses on SIPit-22.
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By Thomas Maufer on 18 April 2008 - 02:52:48 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, Front Line
The inherent complexity of the products and protocols delivering VoIP, IPTV services and IMS architecture makes it increasingly challenging for carriers and MSO’s to provide service assurance.
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By Dave Kresse on 26 March 2008 - 05:27:52 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, CTO Workbench, Overseas Observations
A significant IPTV outage happened recently because the Pakistan Telecommunications Agency (PTA) operations group changed its router configuration and told the world (perhaps by accident, perhaps not) that they had an excellent route to part of the IP address space owned by YouTube.
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By Thomas Maufer on 07 March 2008 - 01:34:24 PM.
Posted under: CEO Desk, CTO Workbench, Overseas Observations
A significant IPTV outage happened this past weekend because the Pakistan Telecommunications Agency (PTA) operations group changed its router configuration and told the world (perhaps by accident, perhaps not) that they had an excellent route to part of the IP address space owned by YouTube.
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By Thomas Maufer on 28 February 2008 - 04:36:26 PM.
Posted under: CTO Workbench, Front Line
Last week's Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-008 - "Critical Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow Remote Code Execution (947890)" could leave many Critical Infrastructure operators exposed to OPC (OLE for Process Control) weaknesses.
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By Eric Byres on 19 February 2008 - 06:17:04 PM.
Posted under: Front Line, Overseas Observations
IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) architecture adoption by leading service providers and their suppliers is moving ahead due to better interoperability and availability/resiliency assurance testing before deployment in production Carrier networks. Tier one MSO and Carriers and taking steps this week to help speed IMS deployment of advanced IP services.
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By Adam Stein on 11 February 2008 - 04:22:48 PM.
Posted under: Front Line
At the recent SANS SCADA in New Orleans, Eric Byres, Byres Security CTO and Kevin Staggs, engineering fellow and global security architect, Honeywell Process Solutions discussed and demonstrated for the first time how undisclosed serial-based critical infrastructure products, including those with IP-based network architectures, are quite exposed to more safety issues and ultimately, failures, in ways never before possible.
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By Adam Stein on 11 February 2008 - 04:16:41 PM.
Posted under: Front Line
During a 9 month study recently Mu Security released, Network Strategy Partners principal Peter Fetterolf interviewed a number of leading service providers and their network product suppliers to learn more about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits of using negative testing metrics during both product deployment and development. Fetterolf’s findings quantify both service provider and network supplier dollars (often $10,000 or more per incident) saved by minimizing downtime and maximizing service availability. NSP Partner whitepaper and Internet Telephony’s Webcast also include 4 service provider, cable operator and vendor supplier case studies.
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By Adam Stein on 30 January 2008 - 05:20:24 PM.
Posted under: Mu External Test Lab - METL
This first Mu Line blog topic focuses on how both service providers and their suppliers are integrating automated negative testing throughout their respective deployment and development lifecycles to reduce downtime due to product weaknesses and vulnerabilities – many of which are unique to their customers differing network use cases.
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By Adam Stein on 22 January 2008 - 12:16:24 PM.
Posted under: Front Line
Welcome to Mu’s first web log (The Mu Line blog) post of 2008. Many of Mu’s service provider, critical infrastructure and network product vendor customers have been asking for more regular industry updates on both the business and technical benefits of negative testing and fuzzing use cases. We’re responding with the new Mu Line blog that will include first-hand posts from Mu’s customer front line worldwide, Mu’s global network of external test labs, our CTO and other industry observations.
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By Mu Dynamics on 22 January 2008 - 12:11:35 PM.
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