The advantages of IP node management are obvious. Electronic eyes can watch all the components throughout networks of any scale. If something falters or fails anywhere in the system, you’ll know quickly—even if that part is 2,000 miles away. That’s the beauty of node management—unmanned, reliable, cost-effective.

While many manufacturers offer node management software, it only works for their own equipment. Since you have components in your network from dozens of manufacturers, you will need multiple node management software packages to watch every component. That’s an awful lot of windows and monitors to observe. An alarm or signal could be missed. A window could be inadvertently left unchecked. A technician could easily get lost in the visual confusion of it all.