Premier Healthcare Provider Optimizes Carrier-Class Network for Mission
Critical Services; nGenius Flow Directors Optimize Deployment of Intrusion
Detection Systems
WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of enterprise-wide network performance
management solutions, today announced that Kaiser Permanente is using the
nGenius(R) Performance Management System to proactively manage the performance
of its large, complex infrastructure in support of critical network services.
Using the nGenius(R) Solution, Kaiser Permanente is gathering management data
from throughout its vast infrastructure to create efficient access to unified
performance information. In addition to deploying NetScout's core solution
consisting of nGenius(R) Performance Manager and nGenius(R) Probes, Kaiser
Permanente has purchased NetScout's new nGenius(R) Flow Directors -- probe-
based options that provide access for network intrusion detection systems at
the outer edges of the network.
Kaiser Permanente is America's largest not-for-profit health care
organization with 8.1 million members in nine states and Washington DC. Its
network is among the top 20 largest private networks in the world, with a
complex fabric of more than 10,000 segments, 200 ATM switches and thousands of
routers. The healthcare delivery leader deploys hundreds of concurrent
applications for its operations to enable functions such as administration,
patient records management, patient and doctor scheduling, medical imaging,
drug warehousing and pharmaceutical services. An organization of its size and
complexity and the critical nature of its network require an efficient and
proactive means of assuring the performance of network services.
The nGenius Solution's ability to unify performance data drawn from
throughout the network helps Kaiser Permanente's IT staff access management
information in a way that supports faster and better IT decisions. Its
integrated performance information enables proactive tuning of the network in
support of critical applications. The nGenius Solution also helps extend and
protect the value of other standards-based tools and legacy technologies by
importing and exporting information to and from the nGenius Solution.
Examples include importing performance statistics from other data gathering
devices and passing information to network-based intrusion detection systems,
modeling and capacity planning tools.
"Our CDM(TM) Technology helps large healthcare organizations like Kaiser
Permanente rise above the complexity of managing their huge infrastructure.
With streamlined access to integrated performance management information,
these organizations are better equipped to ensure that vital networked
services used by doctors and patients will be available at any given moment,"
said Jim Frey, vice president of marketing at NetScout. "The healthcare
industry is a top consumer of NetScout's technology and because of the
significant impact of HIPAA on healthcare providers' IT infrastructures and
processes, there is an urgent need for tools that assure network and
application performance."
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network performance management products that unify performance
across the enterprise. NetScout's nGenius(R) Performance Management System is
helping more than 3000 leading companies increase their return on
infrastructure investments by optimizing the performance of networks and
applications according to business priorities. NetScout is headquartered in
Westford, Massachusetts and has offices worldwide. Further information is
available at http://www.netscout.com.
NetScout and the NetScout logo, and nGenius are registered trademarks of
NetScout Systems, Inc. CDM and the CDM logo, and MasterCare and the
MasterCare logo, are trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. Other brands,
product names and trademarks are property of their respective owners.
NetScout reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to make changes at any
time in its technical information and specifications, and service and support
programs.
For Further Information:
Peggy Flynn Dawn Sullivan
NetScout Systems Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(978) 614-4162 (781) 684-0770
flynnp@netscout.com netscout@schwartz-pr.com
SOURCE NetScout Systems, Inc.