Hernia repair used to require an extensive operation, general anesthesia, and a long recovery time with an extended period of limited mobility. But  there is good news for the three-quarters of a million people who will suffer hernia this year. Surgeons are now using an innovative “plug and patch” method that takes only about half an hour on the table, does not even require general anesthesia and allows patients to resume normal activities in as little as two days.

ASPIDE MEDICAL of France is applying even more innovation to the traditional Plug Technique for hernias. The company has introduced EASYPLUG®, a hernia repair technology that answers surgeons’ needs. The innovations of this solution, based on Aspide Medical’s SURGIMESH® technology have surgeons smiling. The micro-perforated zones ensure a maximal reinforcement, and at the same time helps localizing fixation points. The Easyplug has zones of lighter density, which keeps the implanted material at a minimum, and also allows the implant to be more easily accepted by the body. EASYPLUG® has a special microporous structure designed exclusively by ASPIDE MEDICAL. For the comfort and convenience of patients, the EASYPLUG® allows for less chronic post-operative pain and less shrinkage.

It is generally accepted that the plug and patch method of hernia repair is the most effective replacement for old and outmoded surgical methods for the treatment of hernias. Earlier hernia repair methods, which are still used today, involve stitching together the two sides of the hole using sutures or wire.  This approach creates tension and often causes a recurrence of the hernia, and also produces swelling and pain. More importantly, the tension inhibits full and effective healing of the edges.  Recovery is prolonged with reduced patient flexibility, prolonged pain and restrictions imposed on activity.

With the newer method, using EASYPLUG® surgical mesh, a specially designed mesh system is gently placed through the defect. It opens to cover and effectively repair the defect from the inside, the best place for mesh to be positioned. After this, an additional sheet of mesh is s included as reinforcement. This is placed in a completely tension free fashion, being held in place by a “VELCRO-Like” effect of the mesh itself. Since there is no tension and only a minimal amount of surgical dissection, there is little post operative pain, and patients return to normal activity in just days. In combination with the plug, this method eliminates much of the tension that occurs with the older method of hernia repair and reduces the hernia surgery recurrence rate from up to 20 percent to less than 1 percent.

Founded in 1994, Aspide Medical is a world leader in textile surgical implants. The Surgimesh® range, developed in partnership with surgeons includes implants for for digestive, urological and gynecological surgery.

Services

• Hernia repair

ASPIDE Medical
246 allée Lavoisier
42350 La Talaudière
FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0)4 77 53 16 59
Fax : + 33 (0)4 77 53 01 97
Email : aspide@aspide.com
Web : http://www.aspide.com

The treatment of incontinence in women is an issue that is not always easy for women to discuss. However, the problem is widespread. An estimated 51 million women worldwide (17 million of them in the U.S. alone) have to deal with urinary incontinence.

Urinary incontinence is the medical term used to describe the condition of not being able to control the flow of urine from your body. Incontinence usually occurs because the urethra cannot close tightly enough to hold urine in the bladder. It is surprising to learn how prevalent this rarely talked about condition actually is. For women over age 60, approximately 23% deal with incontinence, and the problem is more common in women than men. 50% of nursing home residents suffer from urinary incontinence.  But urinary incontinence is not just a problem for older women. Between the ages of 18 and 44, approximately 24% of women experience incontinence.

Causes of incontinence

Urinary incontinence usually is caused by weakened or damaged pelvic muscles and tissue that prevent the urethra from closing tight enough to hold urine in the bladder. Some people are unable to prevent leaking urine when they cough, sneeze or exercise. Other women experience a strong urge to urinate but are unable to make it to the bathroom in time.

To determine the type and cause of urinary incontinence, doctors take a complete medical history and conduct a thorough physical examination. Specialists such as gynecologists and urologists may use a variety of testing methods to determine the cause and type of urinary incontinence.

There are a number of factors that contribute to incontinence in women. The most common is pregnancy and vaginal childbirth, because Weakened or damaged pelvic muscles and tissue can be the result of pregnancy and childbirth. The bladder and urethra must be well supported by the pelvic muscles and tissue to allow them to work properly. Here the surgical treatment of incontinence may be recommended, with or without muscular exercises.

The second most important predictor of incontinence is aging, which tends to worsen all forms of muscular injury and weakness, and the pelvic muscles are no exception. Certain medical and neurological conditions, such as hysterectomies, spinal cord problems, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’sdisease, stroke and diabetes can make incontinence worse. Lifestyle factors can also add to the problem. For example, while obesity does not cause incontinence, it does contribute due to the increased abdominal pressure. And while smoking is not a direct cause of incontinence, it may aggravate it.

Of course, not all incontinence is a permanent condition. Urinary tract infections can cause temporary incontinence, and certain medications may increase the likelihood of temporary incontinence. These can be treated effectively with medications such as antibiotics and with the help of Kegel exercises.

Treatment of incontinence

With the advents of superior technology, there are now a number of advanced and effective options for the treatment of incontinence in women, to help restore the urinary continence women have lost with age, or after bearing children.

One of the newest and most effective surgical treatment of incontinence uses the sling procedure, which serves as support for the urethra during increased abdominal pressure. Bone fixated slings treat incontinence by supporting the urethra with a graft material that is secured to the pubic bone. Self-fixating slings treat incontinence by supporting the urethra. The sling is secured in place by friction and natural tissue ingrowth, rather than by sutures or screws. New sling models have built in features that anchor the sling and provides short-term fixation. Mesh characteristics allow tissue fixation without suturing.

For the least invasive surgery,  the Surgimesh® sling, from Aspide Medical can be inserted vaginally. The lightest sling in the market, it is a polypropylene sling specially designed to limit extensibility and deformation of the mesh during implantation.It boasts a very high mechanical resistance which enables elongation control, and the smoothed sides of the sling reduce considerably the risks of erosion. The special weave  of the mesh allows a very quick colonization, and does not salt out particles (optimized knitting and pores size) Another advantage of the Surgimesh® sling is easy insertion; the sling remains flat, even under tension. All of these factors allow a smoother implantation during surgery and maximum patient comfort afterwards.

With so many women suffering in silence, understanding the prevalence, possible causes and treatment options may encourage more women to seek today’s more advanced and effective treatment of incontinence.

Founded in 1994, Aspide Medical is a world leader in textile surgical implants. The Surgimesh® range, developed in partnership with surgeons includes implants for for digestive, urological and gynecological surgery.

Services

• treatment of incontinence

ASPIDE Medical
246 allée Lavoisier
42350 La Talaudière
FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0)4 77 53 16 59
Fax : + 33 (0)4 77 53 01 97
Email : aspide@aspide.com
Web : http://www.aspide.com

]]> http://www.webinfrance.com/treatment-of-incontinence-women-worldwide-advances-new-technology-567.html/feed 0 http://www.webinfrance.com/prolapse-surgery-more-effective-lasting-with-advanced-mesh-techniques-234.html http://www.webinfrance.com/prolapse-surgery-more-effective-lasting-with-advanced-mesh-techniques-234.html#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:22:15 +0000 Web in France team http://www.webinfrance.com/?p=2771 Prolapse prosthetic treatments by French company Aspide Medical allow for mini-invasive surgery and better results

Prolapse is a condition that affects many women. Many cases are mild and cause little or no discomfort. However, women who suffer from more significant prolapse problems often encounter issues that greatly affect their quality of life on a daily basis. Besides general pain and discomfort, these women may experience embarrassing urine leakage when coughing or sneezing, difficulty with bowel movements or pain during sexual intercourse.

What causes prolapse problems?

Connective tissue separates the pelvic organs. The tissue, called fascia, is attached to nearby muscles. When healthy, the fascia and muscles support the bladder, vagina and rectum. Defects in the fascia can cause prolapse problems known as cystoceles (located between the bladder and vagina) and rectoceles (located between the vagina and rectum). Like hernia, cystocles and rectocles involve tissue that bulges or protrudes into an area where it does not belong. In this case, the breach occurs in the walls between the vagina and bladder or rectum. These can be damaged by one or more of the following factors: difficult vaginal births, multiple births
problems during delivery or the use of episiotomy during birth. However, factors unrelated to childbirth can also cause or aggravate the problem. These include strain from lifting heavy objects, chronic cough, chronic constipation or the weakening of vaginal muscles caused by a lack of estrogen after menopause.

Treatment of Prolapse Problems

Activity Modification  is the first suggestion of most doctors. This includes avoiding heavy lifting Kegel exercises (squeezing the pelvic floor muscles) to help to strengthen the muscles around the vagina and bladder. For rectocele doctors often suggest a diet that allows for easy passage of stools by adding fiber, liquids, and a stool softener if necessary.

In cases where these lifestyle changes do not produce  relief, surgical repair is another option. Until recent years, this surgery was only partially effective, as patients often developed recurring problems when resuming normal activities and reinjuring themselves by coughing or straining to lift heavy objects. However, the use of advanced surgical mesh technology has greatly increased the success of prolapse operations.

The Miracle of Mesh – Hope for Prolapse Sufferers

Mesh reinforcement is used with the aim of reducing the risk of recurrence of the prolapse. The mesh has many holes within it to allow the body’s own tissue to grow into the mesh. The mesh then provides a framework of support.  It may provide a longer lasting repair and has been shown to be successful in 80% of people. Mesh is a synthetic material and is permanent, and has been extensively used in surgery, especially in hernia repairs.

SURGIMESH®PROLAPSE  from Aspide Medical of France is a range of safe and efficient prosthetic devices for a  surgical treatment of prolapse problems. Developed to correct cystoceles and rectoceles, among other conditions, each one of Aspide’s surgical devices includes a sling and specific tools corresponding to the operating technique chosen by the surgeon. There are solutions that are optimized for abdominal surgery (coelioscopy) and for a vaginal option that does not require an abdominal incision.

The SURGIMESH®PROLAPSE range of products was designed in partnership with surgeons’ teams.  The mesh is composed essentially of  monofilament polypropylene knitting, a solution particularly adapted to the surgical treatment of cystoceles and rectocele.  The newest knit dimensions are  0,08mm. Many precut shapes are available for coelioscopic use, as well as to open surgery allowing treatment of all pathologies.

Surgical repair of the cystocele or rectocele can result in improved bladder or bowel control. Patients find that they no longer have problems with stress incontinence and can resume activities they did not feel comfortable doing before. Surgery can also relieve pain they may have experienced during sexual intercourse.

Aspide Medical, founded in 1994, is a world leader in textile surgical implants. The Surgimesh® range, developed in partnership with surgeons includes implants for for digestive, urological and gynecological surgery.

Services

• prolapse treatment

People in France are eating more fish, but not all fish are created equal, or are equally available. Grocery shoppers may not realize it, but they can make a difference by choosing to eat fish that are harvested in a sustainable manner, rather than others. This is the message of the Mr. Goodfish campaign, which swam into France two months ago. French conservationists are applauding the initiative, which alerts consumers to the “good fish” to eat with a sticker on the packaging or other notification. The conservationists hope that with the proper education and given a choice, French fish-eaters will opt for fish that are sustainable rather than more endangered species.

A good time for Mr. Goodfish

The campaign was already a success in Italy and Spain. The European program, run under the auspices of the World Ocean Network Association, wants to help consumers buy fish that are neither endangered nor out of season. Given the recent disaster off the coast of Louisiana, the move seems eerily prescient. The fishing industry there has been devastated by a massive and growing oil spill that threatens generations of family seafood businesses and fish not only in the gulf waters but also in the inland waterways.

The blue Mr. Goodfish logos will not only appear on fish sold in supermarkets, but also at fishmongers and even on restaurant menus, steering diners toward fish that they may not be familiar with but whose consumption is healthier for the environment.  Experts in France assert that if consumers choose a Mr. Goodfish instead of another fish, even just once a year, it will have a positive impact on 18,000 tons of endangered fish.

Even an iphone app is in development, to help French consumers know which fish are in season when, and see a list of current Mr. Goodfish choices.

Consumer trends are harder and harder to keep up with in this fast-moving world. Social media especially has allowed ideas and trends to spread like wildfire, increasingly leaving many businesses in the dust. Staying abreast of what people are talking about, more importantly — buying is key to giving customers what they want and will pay for.

But, especially in a tight economy, companies have enough on their plates just to keep things up and running. They barely have time to plan their next move, let alone wonder about long-term considerations like brand strategy or consumer behavior.  That’s why more of them are turning to outside experts who have their eye on the ball to keep track of–and make sense of– these things for them.

Expert business trends tracking and analysis online

Trend-strategy.com is a web-based company that’s all about trend spotting  and strategic research. They’ve got a marketing consulting background with an eye to product innovation and brand strategy based on international consumer trends.With over 20 years of international experience watching and analyzing consumer trends, recognized for creative and marketing consulting, Trend-strategy.com gives its clients worldwide intelligent eyes and ears on what’s going on in marketing trends around the world. Their unmissable monthly trends review is a roundup of emerging consumer trends that is a fascinating read and offers a global perspective of what’s hot and what’s yesterday’s news. Trend-Strategy.com also offers annual Product Report and Brand Report to their clients, identifying opportunities, areas for development. and recommendations for actions and attitudes to take going forward. These come in the form of great-looking 100-slide Powerpoint presentations, ready to present to others.

“Boots on the ground” observing consumer trends

Knowing what’s happening globally starts with knowing what’s happening locally. The company has “boots on the ground” all over the world observing business trends and boasts a network in 5 continents since 1986. Its members are trend spotting experts who are all professionally involved in the business of marketing, creative and information as well as science and technology. They also make use of the brain trust they recruit outside the company, conducting studies and fieldwork  with the best students from the top schools and universities such as Oxford and Berkeley.

A big brand resource at a small-business price point

Trend-Strategy.com’s mother agency has worked with such major names as Danone, Mars, Nestlé, Bongrain, Labeyrie, Boots, Reckitt Benckiser, Auchan,Kingfisher, Lancôme, L’Oréal Paris, Kérastase, Garnier, Guerlain, Sanofi, Wyeth, Chanel, Cartier, Hermès, and many others.

But companies don’t have to have deep pockets or a big brand name to get the benefits of this partnership. Being Internet-based enables Trend-Strategy.com to put their powerful creative and decision-making tools in the hands of more clients at affordable prices, while still allowing them to offer full service and maintain confidentiality with their broad range of clients. The aforementioned Product Report or Brand Report can each be ordered for under $1000, and even less for companies purchasing both.

Now there’s no excuse for any company to be without this vital intelligence about what’s going on in the world of consumer trends as related to their product or brand category. What used to be the province of large companies with the resources to keep expensive marketing firms on retainer, can  now be accessed by anyone with the insight to take advantage of it. Trend-Strategy.com is part of a new wave of online resources aimed at providing these powerful tools in an accessible and affordable way.

Trend-strategy.com flowing from a marketing consulting firm founded in 1986, is a network of pioneers in trend-watching with over 20 years’ international experience in observing and analyzing consumer trends.

Services

• Consumer trends
• Top trends for 2010
• Marketing trends
• Product strategy

Computers have made manufacturing exponentially more productive — except when computer numeric control systems (CNC) break down or need spare or replacement parts. Then a  company can lose precious time and money to downtime,  get behind schedule with their customers and set off a chain of delays and lost revenue. Finding the right CNC spare parts for systems and operations that may consist of components from many different CNC manufacturers can prove daunting.

A solution can be found online at www.CNC-shopping.co.uk , an online supermarket where manufacturers using CNC technology can find a wide array of CNC spare parts from a huge range of equipment makers, such as Amada, Ares seiki, Charmilles, Chiron, Cincinnati Milacron,   Daewoo, Deckel Maho, Doosan, Ecoca, Fagor, Fidia, General Electric,   Gildemeister, Hankook, Heller, Hitachi and many more.

One of the brands represented is the popular Fanuc, so companies can shop for all the Fanuc spare parts they need, from transistors to Fanuc monitors such as the A61L-0001-0093.  Cnc-Shopping offers many ways to purchase Fanuc spare parts; either brand new, used or refurbished.  And because you never know when you will need them, the site offers the ability 24/7 to check the status and price of over 3000 Fanuc parts in stock.

The site has many features that make it the most current supplier of Computer Numeric Control spare parts. There is a “news” tab that shows all the newest parts in stock. Each order is given personal attention, which explains why many customers have remained faithful for years. Approximately 120 countries are served, making 24/7 access a necessity. But no matter where in the world a company is, CNC-shopping makes it a point to offer express shipping to get their customers up and running again fast.

Everything about the service is designed for speed and ease-of-use. Clients can pay in a number of ways; by credit card obviously, but also by bank transfer and even Paypal.  And after purchase, the service and support offered to customers is unparalleled.

Don’t let the failure to find tiny spare parts cause big delays and losses.  www.CNC-shopping.co.uk gives you one-stop shopping for virtually any CNC part you need to keep you operation running smoothly.

www.CNC-shopping.co.uk is a subsidiary of CNC Shopping which has been serving its customers since 2005 with a large supply of machine tool spare parts from a wide range of manufacturers.

Services

• Fanuc monitors
• Fanuc spare parts
• CNC Spare parts

CNC-Shopping.com
19 avenue Albert thomas
93320 LES PAVILLONS SOUS BOIS
FRANCE
Email : Contact form
Web : http://www.cnc-shopping.co.uk

First the enemy was Hollywood, with the French decrying  the “Disneyfication” of Europe and the world (not that this prevented them from opening Euro Disney anyway). Then it was radio and TV stations in France, which were forced to provide a proportional amount of home-grown programming to outweigh the popoular US imports, whether French viewers and listeners wanted it or not. Even advertisers in France were — and are — forced to put French subtitles and translations on commericals and prints ads that use even one English-language word, despite the growing globalization of media and the ubiquity of English as the de facto international language.  Some feel the resistance is necessary to preserve French langague and culture from assimilation, while others see it as a futile attempt to deny the inevitability of change, and more evidence of French resentment of the US in general. Even those who agree with the principle of these attempts are dubious about their success.

But now the French are looking to take on the giants of the internet world. At the Frankfurt Book Fair in mid-October, French publisher Editis announced the development of a digital book distribution system, aimed at selling e-books and other digital information products. And France Télécom said it was introducing Web news site that it had been testing for several months with French broadcasters, newspapers and other partners.

The timing was no accident. Google has recently detailed plans for its own online bookstore, scheduled to open next year, and Amazon recently announced it would start selling its Kindle e-book reader outside the US.  But French bibliophiles who want to read French language books on the popular electronic device are still out of luck; Kindle readers sold outside the United States will offer only English-language books. That’s because French and other European publishers have so far turned a steadfast cold shoulder to any digital book deals with Amazon.

In the meantime, Google is negotiating in the US with publishers and authors for the right to sell millions of digital books. True to form, publishers in France are crying foul, saying their copyrights and culture are again at risk. By creating their own digital bookstore, French publishers are hoping to fend off the juggernauts of Google and Amazon. But as usual, the French have an enemy in this process: themselves.

The Editis project is at least the third such platform under development in France. Hachette, the biggest French publisher, has already created a separate digital book distribution system; Gallimard, Flammarion and La Martinière are working on their own initiative. Unable to resist competing among themselves, French publishers are scattering the force they would need to combat the marketing muscle and internet reach of the two titans of the online content world.

While French print publishers battle amonst themselves for their slice of the digital gateau, France Télécom’s Orange division has made more progress with its new news aggregator website, called 24/24 Actu — the French nickname for “actualités,” or news. Most leading French newspapers and broadcasters are on board, with the television company TF1 among the only real holdouts.

France Télécom has focused on providing quality content and usability, so it may have a shot in the news competition, even though it is still dwarfed by the wildly popular Google News and Yahoo. 24/24 Actu goes a step further than Google News, gathering audio, video and text-based news reports in one place. A user who clicks on a photo from a story brings up a whole range of coverage on the topic from TV, radio and print outlets, making it a truly useful service that goes deep where Google News goes wide.

24/24 Actu has also taken the step of securing rights agreements from all its news partners, rather than displaying blurbs without copyright permission, as Google News often does. This allows the site to run full-length versions of videos and articles without the fear or infringement or the attending lawsuits, making the site a rich source of information for users. In a true reversal of the usual routine, France Télécom even plans to add English-language news to the service soon, and also hopes to expand it into Spain and the UK.

French publishers looking to compete with Google and Amazon on the book front would do well to follow France Télécom’s model and focus on creating a service valuable enough to French consumer to compete, rather than simply barring US products and services from a public that wants them. In this era of globalization, the ability to lock the gate against the “cultural invader” is diminishing, even if the the stubborn impulse to remain purely French is not.

A week before sweeping climate change legislation that will change the way America does business passed in the US House of Representatives, the President of France was demonstrating that he is on the same page. Nicolas Sarkozy, who will be attending the Climate change conference  in Copenhagen, Denmark this December, addressed communication to the head of the UN panel of experts saying that the “challenge of a world agreement on climate change must be met.”

Sarkozy’s messages have become increasingly green in recent months, especially when his turn at the presidency of the EU laid bare the many conflicts among member countries on the issue, especially how to divide the responsibility and the costs for any changes. Back in 2007,  Sarkozy called for a national “carbon tax” on global-warming pollutants and a European tariff on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol.While no specific countries were cited, it was generally understood that the proposal was targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies outside the Kyoto agreement, the UN’s landmark pact on greenhouse-gas emissions.

France has been one of the world leaders in environmental issues. Always a staunch supporter of the Kyoto Protocol, France gets 84% of its energy  from its nuclear power plants, which, despite its reputation for dangerous meltdowns, is the cleanest form of energy generally available today. France also has an extensive rail system including the high-speed electric TGV trains, that cut down on fossil fuel emissions from automobiles. In a further effort to reduce this pollution, France was among the first countries to offer drivers incentives to buy greener cars as well, and Paris recently installed a system of rental bicycles to give the public another greener alternative for getting around the city.  Sarkozy wishes to continue France’s climate change leadership, especially in the light of the dire predictions of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which state that without intervention climate change threatens to lead to cataclysmic drought, floods and epidemics before the end of this century. The head of the panel visited France last week to meet with Sarkozy, and was gratified by the French head of state’s response and pledges of cooperation and leadership on global climate change measures.

Sarkozy has even called on President Obama in recent months to follow the leadership of the EU in the climate change arena, and reverse the environmental isolationism of his predecessor. Sarkozy will probably score some political points at home for the climate change legislation that just passed in the US Congress, which calls for utility companies to get 15% of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. In any case, the legislation, provided it passes in the Senate, will give a big boost to the December Copenhagen conference. Then the ball will be in the rest of the world’s court. The U.S. measure aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. Europe has pledged to cut its own emissions by at least 20 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, and 30 percent if other advanced economies agree to do the same.

However, Sarkozy’s critics say he has not been quite consistent in his support for climate change reforms. The President of France recently expressed his preference for Claude Allegre to head his cabinet’s super-ministry of science, industry and innovation. Allegre, a former climate change champion who has recently reversed his opinion and no longer believes that human activity is responsible for any modifications in the earth’s atmosphere, is seen as an enemy to scientists who preach that global warming can be controlled by changes in peoples’ behavior and energy consumption.

A business is only as good as its first failure, and that applies even more strongly to its web technology.  You do all you can to drive traffic, but then what? At what point do your systems fail? How much traffic can they handle? Is your bandwidth enough to handle all those orders during a product launch, for example? When does synchronization break down? This is information that is crucial for companies to know, so that they can be prepared, preempt any problems before they occur, and fine-tune the systems they have so that everything is working smoothly and at at optimum capacity. Isn’t it a good idea to stress-test for these things ahead of time in the privacy of your own company, rather than waiting for a real-life failure to teach you those lessons?

ZTI based in Lannion, France, is a leader in telecommunications and Test and Measurement Tools for IP networks.  The company was founded in 1989  by engineers and experts who specialize in the development of test and measurement products for telecommunications. ZTI was in the business of designing and developing telecom test products for ISDN and ATM networks before market demand led them to expand into developing IP testing and measurement tools in 1997.

As technology and the Internet have grown exponentially since that time, ZTI has been among the first to develop affordable tools and systems to help companies keep pace and guarantee the integrity of their IP networks. ZTI IP testing and QoS measurement tools can be used in a multitude of situations to test, measure, stress and control IP networks under various conditions.

ZTI has built an expert staff of engineers and consultants who are highly experienced in telecommunications and IT consulting services. And as technology and demand on the network continue to grow, the company has kept ahead of the curve and is always up to date on the latest advances in telecom technologies and changes in the regulatory landscape.

French-based ZTI helps companies all over the world by offering  its expertise and providing services and solutions such as custom software development, turnkey Test & Measurement solutions, Test & Measure campaigns and audits, analysis, telecom consulting and GPS synchronization and timing solutions. ZTI counts as its satisfied clients companies as diverse and far-flung as Qantas Airways in Australia, Deutsche Telekom in Germany, Nokia in Finland, Shin Satellite in Thailand, Cisco, USDoJ in the USA and many, many more. Companies in 45 countries count on ZTI for their testing & measurement and telecom support needs. Even institutions of higher education such as the prestigious University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in the US have used the know-how of ZTI.

ZTI’s GPS synchronization and timing solutions deliver synchronization and reliable, accurate timestamping essential for fields such as security, broadcasting network synchronization and legal services. ZTI’s solutions are relied upon by some of the most serious businesses in the world, namely, armed forces in over ten countries around the globe. High-Precision ZTI Time Service for Windows, UNIX and Linux delivers precision down to one millisecond. Their GPS-based synchronization receivers can synchronize a single PC right up through a complete network of computers and devices.

ZTI offers free trials on all of their testing and measurement tools for IP networks, so customers can  “test drive”  their best-sellers such as LAN Traffic V2, the powerful traffic generator for IP networks, sample the extra QoS of IP Traffic – Test & Measure, or try out the aptly-named NetDisturb, ZTI’s  IP network impairment emulator software that allows simulations of network problems for troubleshooting before any real trouble ever happens. New product available: FaxDisturb, a product to automate fax traffic testing over IP network in a  “disturbed” environment, based on the US-manufactured FaxLab from QualityLogic and on ZTI NetDisturb software.

ZTI, founded in 1989, is based in Lanion, France. ZTI is a leader in telecommunications and Test and Measurement Tools for IP networks. The company serves clients on five continents and has offices in the Midi-Pyrenees and in Brittany.

Services

• Test and Measurement Tools for IP networks
• GPS synchronization
• timing solutions
• QoS measurement tools
• impairment emulator software

The WAN is more and more critical to the business of modern enterprises. To achieve their goal of increased productivity, enterprises are implementing fundamental IT transformations that dramatically increase the pressure on the network.

By displacing local branch communications to the WAN, datacenter consolidation is increasing competition among applications flows over the network; the virtualization of desktop drives new application delivery models that fully rely on the WAN; IP Telephony and other collaborative applications introduce new time sensitive and distributed communications over the network; Web 2.0, web applications, SOA, SaaS, Video streaming and conferencing are dramatically increasing the WAN’s resources requirements; finally, globalization breed new mobile usages based on the necessity to deliver applications to the global workforce. Only intelligent networks can enable those business services to run anytime, anywhere and any way.

Ipanema Technologies, headquartered in France and the US, develops next-generation solutions for WAN application traffic management and WAN Optimization which drastically improve the quality of user experience.  Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System brings intelligence to the network, enabling enterprises to align the network with their business objectives dynamically. The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System is designed to manage up to very large enterprise WANs. It empowers enterprises, telecom operators and network service providers to go Beyond the Network TM. With Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System, Enterprises can create repeatable and industrialized application-SLA basedservices that bring the best benefits with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): intelligent WAN visibility, intelligent WAN Optimization, and intelligent WAN Acceleration. Ipanema is used extensively by many large telecom operators as well as by large multinationals across all market segments, including banking and finance, public sector, energy, pharmaceuticals, automotive, IT and so on.  All benefit from Ipanema’s Application Performance Guarantee.

Ipanema brings intelligence to the network through three key feature sets:

• Intelligent WAN Visibility, providing control of the network and application behavior
• Intelligent WAN Optimization, providing the critical Application Performance Guarantee under all circumstances
  
• Intelligent WAN Acceleration , providing the ability to minimize the response time of all business applications everywhere.

Unlike any other solution on the market,  these three feature sets are delivered through a system architecture: the Autonomic Networking System or Ipanema System. The multiple components of the ipanema System work together to automatically, globally and dynamically manage the traffic. The high level of automation and integration of the Ipanema System empowers a new breed of high-level traffic management features: Network Application Governance functions that directly connect with ITIL of network governance processes.

For customers who prefer to get the benefit of Ipanema features through their service providers, Ipanema is providing a dedication Managed Service Framework on which high value and ubiquitous services are being built.

The Ipanema Autonomic Networking System or Ipanema System is at the heart of Ipanema’s ability to connect the network’s functioning with the goals of the business. With the Ipanema System, WAN application traffic management operations are global and automated.

Enterprise networks face the challenge of increasing complexity. For the largest of them: 10,000s of users, 1,000s of sites, 100s of applications… Traffic patterns are constantly twisted by new architectures (datacenter consolidation, desktop virtualization…), new applications (peer-to-peer, voice…) and even time zones. Non-critical traffics increases exponentially, threatening business applications efficiency and putting network architecture and budget under pressure…

On the other hand, management principles and tools that network teams use (so-called “Policy-based management”) belongs to the age of stone: partial information collected on local devices (routers, probes…) are manually processed by overwhelmed engineers that must deduce approximate local policies to be set-up in such devices… This cumbersome process is no more able to match the challenge of speed and complexity that are facing agile and global enterprises.

It is time for a new, high level WAN application traffic management concept that delegate to processors what they can do best: exchange information and compute fast and right, while preserving human intelligence for the noble task to set-up the mission (objectives) and control its achievement (reporting, SLAs).

It is time for Autonomic Networking Systems, a fundamental step to manage the ever growing complexity of enterprises’ network and application environments.

An Autonomic Networking System is an emerging research focus for many public and private laboratories across the world. It has been created following the principles of Autonomic Computing introduced by IBM in 2001.

Ipanema’s WAN Optimization solution is one of the first commercial implementations of the concept of Autonomic Networking System.

WAN Optimization solutions are now recognized as fundamental components of a modern WAN to support the performance of business critical applications. All WAN Optimization solutions provide WAN Acceleration to mitigate the impact of constrained network resources. Most include some Visibility to locally report on the behavior of their mechanisms and on their view of the links usage. Lately, some WAN optimization vendors have partnered with WAN application traffic management specialists to provide better Visibility, including Visibility on user experience.

But combining a WAN Optimization solution with an external Application Performance Management solution is not providing full answers to key Enterprises issues including:

• The need to report on the global network usage and performance throughout the organization
• The need to troubleshot application performance through real-time global to local data drilldown
• The need to setup performance SLAs at the application level
• The need to isolate the contribution to the performance of individual components of the application delivery chain (WAN, optimized WAN, client, servers …)
• The need to clearly understand the impact of WAN Optimization over the end-user quality experience.

The Ipanema System is today used as a strategic tool by Enterprises as a complete solution to accelerate and guarantee the end user experience and to provide a full answer to their Application performance guarantee needs over their optimized WAN.

The Ipanema System, has been designed from the very beginning for global WAN Optimization deployments. It provides an unprecedented scalability, enabling it to deliver WAN optimization to thousands of sites. Ipanema’s objective based management model makes WAN Optimization management workload nearly independent from the number of sites and requires much less effort than do traditional approaches. The inherent complexity of large and meshed networks is fully handled by the system architecture. Finally, the system supports innovative deployment options allowing the deployment of devices in a progressive fashion and only in provably required locations.

Intelligent WAN Acceleration brings response time down so that it enables the appropriate quality of experience that users expect. It tightly combines with Ipanema Optimization’s ability to guarantee the performance of critical applications under the toughest conditions.

A combination of redundancy elimination, TCP acceleration and application acceleration mechanisms are dynamically applied under the control of Ipanema’s sophisticated global, dynamic optimization features.

Following the principles of Autonomic Networking Systems, the mechanisms are triggered dynamically depending on the nature of the applications. The system automatically adapts these parameters in real-time based on a dynamic, global analysis of the traffic mix, user behavior and continuous tracking of WAN resource availability.

Ipanema is a global company established in all continents with a global support and is praised for its stellar performance.

Ipanema is today empowering 75% of the available intelligent network services worldwide. This success has been possible through continuous innovation following the principles of Autonomic Networking. This new discipline is a quantum leap in networking technology where the network becomes intelligent enough to deliver application performance guarantee by adapting to the varying user demand and to changes in its environment. Autonomic Networking Systems have emerged in the past few years on the ground of IBM’s Autonomic Computing. It is today embraced by the networking research community and by visionary networking technology vendors. Ipanema develops next-generation solutions for WAN application traffic management and WAN Optimization which bring intelligence to the network to drastically improve the quality of user experience and align the network with core business objectives. Ipanema today powers intelligent networks of global leaders in all industry sectors. All Ipanema customers have deployed the solution as a strategic tool to support the delivery of critical business applications to their global workforce. Ipanema goes beyond solving local performance issues like other point products on the market. When selecting Ipanema, our customers make the choice of building a full layer of intelligence on top of their WAN globally. Ipanema Technologies assures a global presence from: Asia Pac, BeNeLux, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States

Services

• WAN Acceleration
• WAN Optimization
• Application performance guarantee
• WAN application traffic management
• Autonomic Networking System
• Network Application governance