Integrated Real-Time Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Reporting, Plus Market
Leading Voice over IP Management, In a Single Solution
WESTFORD, Mass., June 10 --
NetScout Systems (Nasdaq: NTCT) today announced nGenius Performance
Manager(TM) 1.4 as the next major step in its continuing mission to advance
enterprise-class network performance management and reduce the total cost of
ownership of network management systems for customers-who face mounting
challenges presented by converged networks. nGenius Performance Manager is
the first product to combine real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, protocol
analysis, and historical reporting into a single, unified network and
application performance management solution. It is an intuitive management
application that leverages the comprehensive data collected by NetScout's
industry-leading probes for LAN and WAN segments. With the addition of new
market-leading capability for managing Voice over IP applications, nGenius
Performance Manager is unique in its ability to concurrently monitor and
provide a global view of all standards-based, in-house developed, Web, and
voice applications as they compete for resources on the shared network
infrastructure.
nGenius Performance Manager addresses the key tasks IT managers face in
improving the performance and reliability of their networks. Its unified
approach enables faster completion of troubleshooting, capacity planning and
network service management tasks. The product combines high-level summaries
of network performance with the ability to drill-down into layers of detail
for faster problem resolution. Its Web-based access allows immediate sharing
of information between customers, suppliers and remote sites; its flexible
reports support effective communications between business and IT entities.
"nGenius Performance Manager is a powerful and complete performance
management tool. It's easy to use, install, and saves us both time and money
because all of the real-time and historical information we need is at our
fingertips," said Mike Osterholm, Emerging Services Field Services
Representative for TELUS. "Its visibility into VoIP performance will also
enable us to help our customers deploy converged network services more
effectively."
Vancouver-based TELUS, one of Canada's leading telecommunications
companies, participated in NetScout's recent beta test of nGenius Performance
Manager. TELUS is an established NetScout customer that uses nGenius products
to manage the performance of its corporate network, as well as to assist
customers that need help with diagnosing performance problems or gaining a
better understanding of their applications traffic for network planning.
"nGenius Performance Manager is the only solution on the market that
delivers unified views into the performance of all types of business traffic
as it is delivered over the network. No other product has integrated its
network and applications monitoring, packet analysis and trending features to
the extent that switching between real-time and historical, high- and low-
level views are so seamless," said Michael Szabados, Senior Vice President of
Product Operations for NetScout Systems. "Our solutions are designed to
provide the highest quality performance intelligence while embracing new
technologies, quickly. We are able to incorporate performance data for new
technologies fast, without adding to our customers' workload or training
headaches. We do this through delivering more complete software solutions and
through our robust independent data source-NetScout's application-aware
probes."
Pricing and Availability
nGenius Performance Manager v1.4 is priced at $50,000 and is available
June 15, 2002. Training classes begin June 24, 2002. For additional
information about nGenius solutions, call NetScout Systems at 1-800-657-7666
or visit our Website http://www.netscout.com.
For MasterCare Customers
NetScout MasterCare Support customers for nGenius Real Time Monitor Plus
will receive nGenius Performance Manager v1.4 upgrades under their support
contracts. MasterCare is NetScout Systems' comprehensive support program that
provides technical assistance, hardware repair services, and the latest
software and firmware upgrades. Customers worldwide choose to protect their
investment with MasterCare Gold and Platinum support. For more information,
go to http://www.netscout.com/support/support_programs.htm.
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network performance management solutions for leading companies and
service providers worldwide. NetScout serves the Global 5000 and counts among
its customers ArvinMeritor, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cable
and Wireless, Cisco Systems, China Telecom, Fidelity Investments, Getronics,
Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Nextel Communications, Samsung SDS, Siemens Health
Services Corporation, StarBand Communications, Travelocity.com, Visa
International, and Wachovia Bank. NetScout's solutions are offered through
its nGenius(TM) Performance Management System, an integrated suite of advanced
monitoring and reporting applications that draw on the rich performance data
generated by NetScout's real-time, application-aware probes, 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 on the World Wide Web at http://www.netscout.com.
NetScout is a registered trademark, and the NetScout logo, nGenius,
nGenius Performance Manager, nGenius Capacity Planner, nGenius Application
Service Level Manager, nGenius Real-Time Monitor and nGenius Probe are
trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc.
For Further Information:
Peggy Flynn Dustin Smith or John Moran
NetScout Systems Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(978) 614-4162 (781) 684-0770
flynnp@netscout.com netscout@schwartz-pr.com
SOURCE NetScout Systems, Inc.
Web site: http://www.netscout.com
CONTACT: Peggy Flynn of NetScout Systems, +1-978-614-4162,
flynnp@netscout.com; or Dustin Smith, or John Moran, both of
Schwartz Communications, Inc., +1-781-684-0770,
netscout@schwartz-pr.com