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Upgrading is as easy as 1,2,3: Controlled migration path with T/Mon NOC.

PROBLEM #2: "My biggest problem is compatibility and scalability. We need to be able to transition to newer models without changing the whole system out."

Once you have a protocol mediator like T/Mon in place, you automatically have an easy, step-by-step migration path from your legacy equipment to modern SNMP-based monitoring. You can gradually replace all your equipment, at a pace you control, without killing your entire budget on a system-wide forklift swapout.

Here's how controlled, step-by-step migration works:

Step One: Install a T/Mon to mediate alarms from your remote sites to SNMP. You just immediately improved your network monitoring in two ways: your alarms are mediated to SNMP, and you've replaced your older, possibly failing legacy master with a solid modern system. So far, all you've committed to is one new piece of equipment.

Step Two: Replace as many - or as few - remote site devices as you want with new SNMP units like the NetGuardian 832A. Your old legacy equipment and your new devices can work together side by side. All your alarms, no matter what their original source, are mediated to SNMP by T/Mon.

Step Three, Four, Five, etc: Repeat Step Two as many times as you need or want. Or stop replacement whenever your want.

If your legacy equipment is working fine, you don't have to touch it - it can stay out in the field for the rest of its working life, and you'll get the full value of your investment in legacy equipment.

If your legacy equipment is starting to fail, you can immediately relieve yourself of the creeping anxiety of trying to monitor with fewer and fewer remotes. As your legacy remotes fail, you can gradually swap them out for modern ones.

You never have to replace more equipment than you can afford in one budget cycle. You can gradually replace your entire system without ever causing too big a budget drain in any one cycle. When migration is finished, you will have completed upgraded your network without ever taking an unnecessary financial risk.

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