OPNET's Guru Software Leverages Accurate
Real-time Performance Information from NetScout's nGenius System
BETHESDA, Md., and WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- OPNET
Technologies (Nasdaq: OPNT) the leading provider of intelligent network
management software and NetScout Systems' (Nasdaq: NTCT), the leading provider
of network performance management solutions today announced new integration
between the two companies' network management offerings. The new solution
provides enterprises a means of automatically integrating the real-time
performance information generated by NetScout's nGenius(TM) System into OPNET
8.0 Guru products.
"Both OPNET and NetScout are first class technology companies in the
network management industry," said Mr. Masaaki Miura, General Manager at
Mitsui. "The combination of their newest product offerings -- real-time
traffic information from NetScout's nGenius Real Time Monitor(TM) and the new
flow analysis technology from OPNET 8.0 -- offers a compelling value
proposition for enterprise network managers worldwide."
OPNET's award-winning products provide a virtual network environment in
which to analyze and optimize network applications, configurations, and
traffic flows in a nearly limitless range of "what if" scenarios. NetScout is
the market leader in generating comprehensive, real time views of the network
and its traffic flows, which generates critical decision-making information
for network management, such as the effects of individual application flows
and conversations on network resources, slowdowns or loss of networked
services, and performance inefficiencies resulting from problematic network
architectures and applications. By integrating NetScout performance
information with OPNET products, users can enhance the results of their
modeling projects with live statistics from their own networks -- system-wide
and on a segment-by-segment basis.
OPNET's Guru products automatically generate and populate network models
using live network information. The process of importing live network
information into OPNET's virtual environment immediately identifies problems
such as application inefficiencies and network addressing conflicts. By
simulating changes such as technology migration, traffic growth, and failures,
OPNET users can fix existing performance problems with additional confidence,
and solve new problems before they occur.
Unlike other management approaches that approximate network health using
infrastructure device data and events only, NetScout's new nGenius Performance
Management System delivers detailed performance information generated by
dedicated information appliances that measure the actual behavior of the
network in delivering business applications to individual users. The
appliances continually monitor critical network traffic flows, ensuring
constant visibility into high value links and traffic system-wide, through
nGenius performance management applications.
"We look forward to a strengthened relationship with NetScout Systems.
Our customers will realize better ROI by incorporating accurate, real-time
traffic flow information from nGenius into their OPNET projects," stated Marc
Cohen, Chairman & CEO of OPNET. "Existing NetScout customers will benefit
from the opportunity to use their nGenius information for valuable new forms
of analysis provided by OPNET."
Michael Szabados, NetScout's senior vice president of product operations,
added, "This is a significant extension of our ongoing relationship with
OPNET. Our traffic-centric performance management information reveals live
use of the network, the essential ingredient for accurate baselining and
analysis of network behavior. Our relationship with OPNET illustrates the
value of our nGenius information in state-of-the-art solutions produced by
leading network management companies."
Availability
The Multi-Vendor Import (MVI) Module for OPNET 8.0 products now supports
the nGenius Performance Management System. OPNET's SP Guru product, which
includes MVI functionality, now also supports the nGenius import enhancement.
For more information, please contact OPNET Sales at info@opnet.com.
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network performance management solutions for leading enterprises
and service providers worldwide. NetScout's solutions are offered through its
nGenius(TM) Performance Management System, an integrated solutions-based suite
of advanced monitoring and reporting applications that draw on the rich
performance information generated by NetScout's real-time, application-aware
probe suite, advanced intelligent software agents, and network devices. The
nGenius System helps organizations increase their return on infrastructure
investments by optimizing the performance of their network, applications and
content. NetScout is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has
approximately 360 employees, with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
Further information on the company is available at http://www.netscout.com.
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of
intelligent network management software. The OPNET product suite combines
predictive modeling and a comprehensive understanding of networking
technologies to enable its customers to more effectively design and deploy
networks, provision services, diagnose network and application performance
problems, and predict the impact of network changes. For more information
about OPNET and its products, visit www.opnet.com.
Contacts:
OPNET Media Relations OPNET Investor Relations
Paul D. Feldman Todd Kaloudis
Feldman Communications OPNET Technologies
410-571-8900 240-497-3000
Media@opnet.com ir@opnet.com
FeldmanCommunications.com opnet.com
NetScout Media Relations NetScout Corporate Relations
Dustin Smith or Dan Sarro Peggy Flynn
Schwartz Communications NetScout Systems
781-684-0770 978-614-4162
netscout@schwartz-pr.com flynnp@netscout.com
www.schwartz-pr.com www.netscout.com
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