CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager is a network infrastructure management software by CA, Inc. Spectrum enables the modeling of LAN, WAN, wired, wireless, physical and virtual networks.

Spectrum provides features such as network auto-discovery, impact analysis, service level management and automated configuration change management. It is capable of automatically identifying all network assets, and generating a network topology map that displays all network elements, down to their physical and logical ports. Spectrum is capable of determining and representing the root cause, and impact, of a network fault.

History

Spectrum was originally developed at Cabletron Systems

Cabletron Systems

Cabletron Systems was a major New Hampshire, USA-based provider of networking computer equipment throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Cabletron's design and sales methodologies dramatically reduced the cost of Ethernet networking equipment, covering a wide range of Layer 1 and Layer 2 networking...

, Inc, in 1991. In 1999 the Spectrum business unit became a separate company, Aprisma Management Technologies

Aprisma Management Technologies

Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 5 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM network management suite. It was acquired in early 2005 by Concord, which in turn was acquired by Computer Associates....

. The main goal of this division was to erase industry perceptions that the technology was tied to Cabletron's hardware. Up until this division other companies, such as Cisco

Cisco

Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

, saw Cabletron as a competitor and were reluctant to work together with it. Cabletron was later divided into Enterasys and Riverstone

Riverstone Networks

Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of Cabletron Systems, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid-1990s...

, and Aprisma was sold by Enterasys to Gores Technology Group following an United States Securities and Exchange Commission

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

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investigation.

In January 2005, Concord Communications, Inc, announced its intent to acquire Aprisma from Gores..

CA, Inc. acquired Concord Communications, Inc, including its Aprisma Management Technologies subsidiary, on June 7, 2005.