NETSCOUT to Showcase VoIP and Qos Performance Monitoring at Voice Over IP 2004 Forum

14 Sep 2004
      Best Practices for Managing and Monitoring VoIP in Large Networks

WESTFORD, Mass., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of enterprise-wide network and application performance management solutions, will be participating at the Voice Over IP 2004 Forum on 21st September at the Inmarsat Conference Centre in London, England.

Bruce Sweet, VP for Business Development, NetScout Systems will deliver a presentation at the event on managing and monitoring VoIP in large, complex networks. The presentation will cover common challenges being reported by large enterprises that have already begun widening their VoIP deployments, managing multiple enabling technologies in conjunction with newly-converged traffic, customer case examples and best practices for increasing the reliability of large rollouts.

The VoIP 2004 Forum aims to give senior IT, ICT, Network and Telecoms executives a thorough insight into the strategic and business issues relating to VoIP implementation and management, whilst at the same time providing a platform for networking with leading vendors of VoIP communications technologies and solutions at the accompanying exhibition.

NetScout's nGenius Performance Management System provides a rich set of features for managing performance of converged infrastructures. While providing both the deepest possible technical as well as high-level business- relevant perspectives on the status and activity of voice and data traffic together in single integrated view, the nGenius System also supplies application response time measurements and voice call quality details such as jitter, packet loss and setup times. Using the nGenius Solution, IT managers can monitor and validate the applications being delivered within each QoS class, measure their responsiveness and understand their bandwidth needs. Through NetScout's patent-pending CDM(TM) Technology, consistent enterprise- wide utilization, response time and availability metrics are displayed both in real-time and via web-based reports, reducing the need for manual data reconciliation, improving cross-functional collaboration, and enabling proactive management practices.

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                   Anne Harding
     NetScout Systems              The Message Machine
     (978) 614-4162                +44 (0) 1895 631448
     flynnp@netscout.com           anne@themessagemachine.com


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