Optrics Products Overview

AKCP Company Information

Dear Clients,

Optrics Engineering is no longer an AKCP Authorized Distributor and is no longer selling or supporting the AKCP product line. We would like to thank all our AKCP clients that have chosen to do business with us since 2001.

If you are looking for AKCP product, we currently have a sizable and extensive multi-year distributor's stocking inventory of new AKCP sensors, cables and components that we are selling at generous discounts off list price until gone.

Please call us with your needs.

Existing clients needing support or that are interested in alternative monitoring solutions are invited to contact our office.

If you require assistance please call us at 1-780-430-6240

APC NetBotz Company Information

The corporate network is a critical business asset. It is no longer a goal but an absolute necessity to have early warning of network downtime or conditions leading tofailure.<.p>

Simple and low-cost, NetBotz monitoring appliances protect your hardware and information investment. Early-warning notification of impending equipment failure due to changes in the physical conditions or properties of your equipment allows you to take immediate corrective action before major losses accumulate.

Founded in 1999, NetBotz specializes in producing solutions that protect customers from physical threats caused by human acts-intrusion, malfeasance, error-and hostile environmental factors-extreme temperatures, the presence of dangerous gases, high humidity, water leaks, and much more.

Today, APC NetBotz continues to meet the emerging needs of its customer base. For example, as the need for greater security and surveillance has grown, NetBotz has responded with a more powerful, better security capability.

Barracuda Networks Company Information

Established in 2002, Barracuda Networks, Inc., is the leading provider of enterprise-class spam firewall solutions for comprehensive email protection. Winner of numerous industry honors, including Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award and the 2004 Well-Connected Award, its flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Outbound Mode Barracuda Spam Firewall provide spam and virus protection for over 14,000 customers around the world, including Adaptec, Barnes & Noble, Caltrans, CBS, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

In addition, Barracuda Networks expanded its product portfolio in April 2005 launching the Barracuda Spyware Firewall, the first true comprehensive anti-spyware and Web filtering gateway appliance. The Barracuda Spyware Firewall combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete anti-spyware solution for businesses of all sizes.

Barracuda Networks' mission is to provide powerful, enterprise-class solutions that are suitable for the largest of businesses yet have the ease of use and affordability that smaller businesses demand. With this combination of power, ease of use and affordability, Barracuda Networks products continue to win wide acclaim from customers as well as within media and analyst circles.

Barracuda Networks is a privately held company with headquarters in Cupertino, California and has offices in eight international locations and distributors in over 35 countries.

The Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall family is the most trusted spam-blocking and anti virus networking devices for small and large companies. The Spam Firewall handles a massive load (over 10 million daily emails without affecting your mail server) and sits just in front of your web mail gateway or e-mail gateway.
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Castle Rock Computing Company Information

Castle Rock Computing commenced operations in 1987. The SNMPc Network Manager, introduced in 1989, was the first available SNMP manager for Windows. This easy-to-use tool has proven very popular and there are currently over 100,000 copies installed worldwide. Many hardware vendors use SNMPc WorkGroup as an OEM platform to manage their devices.

July 1998 saw the introduction of our flagship management product, the SNMPc Enterprise Manager. This product uses a scaleable distributed architecture and incorporates the latest WEB based technologies. SNMPc Enterprise meets the demanding requirements for managing todays large corporate networks.

Castle Rock Computing was the first company to deliver a Windows based SNMP management system. SNMPc, is a secure distributed network management system which delivers proactive real-time monitoring for your entire network infrastructure.
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Codima Technologies Company Information

Codima Technologies develops and markets software tools that help organizations to reduce costs, save time and successfully manage their infrastructure network from beginning to end.

Codima's team has a long track record of bringing highly advanced network technology to the market. Today we are recognized for VoIP pre-assessment and post-deployment tools for VoIP readiness as well as network inventory tools displaying what is installed on an entire infrastructure network using Microsoft® Office Visio®.

In order to create best practice VoIP management to enable organizations to take Voice over IP to the next level, we have focused on a beginning to end solution using our easy to use One Click Management™. Codima Toolbox is truly unique in providing a versatile set of tools and modules that are scalable and can manage a VoIP network from testing to daily operation.

Organizations today need full control of their IT assets to improve budgeting, facilitate auditing and to comply with new regulations. autoMap™ is our highly praised flag ship tool for network inventory and network visualization making visual control and proactive network maintenance of entire infrastructure networks possible.

Codima is a Microsoft® Partner and autoMap™ is a key solution provider to Microsoft® Visio® IT Pro Toolbox.

Codima is an Avaya DevConnect Gold Partner and autoVoIP™, autoMap™ and autoAsset™ are tested and accepted as Avaya Compliant.

Codima has offices in London, Philadelphia, Stockholm, Sydney and Tokyo and Codima Toolbox resells via Codima partners like Optrics.

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DameWare Company Information

DameWare Development is the manufacturer the DameWare NT Utilities software suite.

DameWare NT Utilities is an enterprise system management application for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, which provides an integrated collection of Microsoft Windows NT administration utilities incorporating a centralized interface for remote management of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Servers and Workstations.

All of the standard Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Windows NT/2000/XP Workstation utilities are included, along with many DameWare NT Utilities custom NT tools including Mini Remote Control. Most of the standard utilities have been drastically enhanced for superior performance, added functionality and ease of use.

DameWare NT Utilities contains an Active Directory Browser view for Active Directory implementations as well as a dynamic Network Browser view, which will display Microsoft Windows Network domains in a network explorer tree view. Active Directory Sites can easily be added or removed from the Active Directory site list. Windows NT domains can be added to the Favorite Domains section of the Network Browser view.

Domain controllers, servers and workstations, as well as non-browseable machines, can be specified by machine name or IP address, and added to the network explorer tree view. DameWare NT Utilities includes a Mini Remote Control for fast and easy deployment and an Exporter to quickly extract information from remote NT/2000/XP/2003 machines.

Why Integrate DameWare into your corporate IT Strategy?

• Multiple domain administration in one centralized view
• Manage Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 machines with one interface
• No configuration needed, just install and go
• No roll out of client needed, it installs its client agents on the fly
• Any administrator can install or remove client software remotely in seconds
• Built on Windows standard API technology. No messing up your servers and clients here

Dartware Company Information

Dartware is a software development firm focused on proactive network management solutions that help maximize uptime. Dartware was founded — and its products developed — by IT managers. The group's intimate understanding of network management challenges continues to differentiate Dartware's technology. Dartware routinely uses customer feedback to enhance technology. Ease of use is a constant imperative.

Dartware's flagship network monitoring and alerting product, Intermapper© allows network managers to map their networks for easy access to real-time status reports and problem alerts.

• Mapped Monitoring
• Detailed Element Management
• Critical Application Management
• NT Service Management
• Easy Data Charting
• Geographic Data Import
• Remote Viewing and Control
• Sub-Map Details
• Highly Scalable
• Multiple Notification Options

F-Secure Company Information

F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response.

According to independent studies in 2004 and 2005 their response time to new threats is significantly faster than their major competitors. F-Secure's award-winning solutions are available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service Providers.

Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly-listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a service through major ISPs, such as France Telecom, TeliaSonera, PCCW and Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia.

Fortinet Company Information

Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen, later sold to Juniper for more than $3.5 billion.

The company is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success.

Using Fortinet's ASIC innovation and performance acceleration capabilities, FortiGate Systems detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance.

Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls provide the industry's broadest suite of security protections in a single platform - including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam, antispyware, and traffic shaping.

These products and FortiGuard subscription services have won the industry's largest number of awards and certifications, and continue to lead the performance benchmarks for either individual 'best in class security applications' or as an integrated Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution

IPSwitch Company Information

Ipswitch develops and markets innovative Windows-based software that makes the Internet and intranets accessible and manageable. Built by networking professionals who understand the meaning of having the right tool for the job, the Ipswitch product family includes WS_FTP Pro, the world’s most popular file-transfer utility for Windows, an Internet messaging server, and low-cost network monitoring tools.

Ipswitch products set new standards for functionality, performance, reliability, and interoperability, while providing the foundation for increased productivity. Ipswitch’s mission is to develop and market a portfolio of Internet applications that leverage its core competency in Windows development and TCP/IP technology. Ipswitch is focused on the evolving market for Internet applications and networking utilities, including tools for end users and network administrators.

Network Intruments Company Information

Network Instruments is the industry leading developer of superior, user-friendly, and affordable network management, analysis and troubleshooting solutions. The award-winning Observer family of products combines a comprehensive management and analysis console with high-performance remote Probes to provide integrated monitoring and management for the entire network (LAN, 802.11a/b/g, Gigabit, WAN).

All Network Instruments products are designed utilizing Distributed Network Analysis (NI-DNA™) architecture. With NI-DNA, the Observer solution set simplifies network troubleshooting and management, optimizes network and application performance and scales to meet the needs of any organization. Founded in 1994, Network Instruments is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with offices in London, Paris, throughout the USA and distributors in over 50 countries.

In 1994, Network Instruments developed Observer – the first, affordable Windows-based protocol analyzer. It was also the first product to troubleshoot switched environments. Since then, Observer has grown into an entire family of award winning network management, analysis and troubleshooting solutions. Fully scalable, Observer helps optimize network/application performance and availability allowing network administrators to control and manage their entire network. Product features include packet capture/decode, SNMP data collection, RMON/SMON, Expert analysis and long term trending and reporting. At the heart of the Observer product line is a comprehensive, freestanding protocol analysis console that can also work with remote, high-performance Probes. Solution sets are fully integrated, completely scalable and will work for the entire network, regardless of size.

If you are interested in a Network Instruments product that you dont' see on this site, Contact Us, as we have access to all NI Products.

Paessler Company Information

Since 1997, Paessler has had a large number of satisfied customers from the corporate and the consumer sectors alike. They are fully committed to providing fast and reliable support for all of our applications. Today, software solutions by Paessler GmbH can be found in use in the internet security sector, network testing and network monitoring, in data security and data recovery, as well as in digital photography.

Paessler's commitment to deliver great software has clearly been appreciated by the outside world, as today several thousand customers are relying on our products daily.

The Paessler product range was born out of necessity. Whenever they were unable to find a suitable application for their specific needs, they developed our own. In time, this grew from a collection of in-house utilities to a range of powerful, affordable software solutions. Their philosophy is that complex technical processes and powerful software applications shouldn‘t have to be complicated to use, or overly expensive to buy. Their small, flexible teams use money-saving object and component-orientated development technologies. The result is a range of powerful and professional solutions for enterprises and private clients, with a truly excellent price-performance ratio.

Paessler develops applications that simplify and visualize complex processes. Their software products can be used intuitively, and are designed to offer efficient solutions without the need for training or expensive workshops. It's designed to allow small and medium-sized enterprises to employ technologies which, in the past, were only available to large corporations. The pricing strategy means that a reliable IT-infrastructure is feasible, even on a smaller budget.

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Softalk Company Information

Softalk was established by its directors, Simon Bates and Stuart Prestedge, in 1993 to provide collaboration software solutions to the mass market. Softalk's mission remains to provide affordable, easy to use collaboration and messaging solutions to the small to medium sized business.

Softalk's first product was called OfficeTalk, a collaboration client, which provided shared calendars, contacts and email. OfficeTalk sold in excess of 30,000 seats in the United Kingdom, within a couple of years of launch.

In 1999, Softalk released Softalk Mail Server (aka WorkgroupMail), a full featured mail server aimed at the SME market. This was followed in 2003 by the release of WorkgroupShare, a collaboration server, which lets users of Outlook share their Outlook folders with their colleagues. In 2005, Softalk released the Softalk Collaboration Suite, a fully integrated collaboration solution for the small to medium sized business.

In November 2005, Softalk was ranked 14th fastest growing technology company in London and the South of England at the Deloitte 2005 Fast 50 awards, held in London.

In June 2007, Softalk released Softalk Share Server, a world class alternative to Exchange Server for Outlook collaboration.

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