nGenius Flow Collector and Performance Manager Provide Visibility into Traffic
Flows for Capacity Planning and Improved Service Quality
WESTFORD, Mass., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of network and application performance
management solutions, today announced that Shanghai Unicom has deployed
NetScout's nGenius Solution. The implementation, including the nGenius Flow
Collector for NetFlow, improves Shanghai Unicom's network service quality by
providing comprehensive visibility into its IP Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
and by enhancing network planning and resource optimization capabilities.
Shanghai Unicom is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom Limited, one
of the largest integrated telecommunications service providers in China.
Shanghai Unicom offers a wide range of services, including GSM and CDMA
wireless, data and Internet, and domestic and international long distance
calling. The company architected a new IP MAN, which includes NetFlow-enabled
routers, as the infrastructure platform upon which it offers a variety of
value-added managed application services to corporate customers in the
Shanghai region.
To ensure its services would continue to meet customers' expectations of
reliability and performance, Shanghai Unicom sought a performance management
system to monitor and analyze network and application-level service traffic
and to improve its capacity planning capabilities. After careful
consideration, Shanghai Unicom selected NetScout's nGenius Solution as the
most mature and comprehensive performance management offering on the market
that could leverage NetFlow data from their Cisco infrastructure. Pairing the
nGenius Performance Manager 3.0 and the nGenius Flow Collector for NetFlow,
Shanghai Unicom is able to effectively monitor bandwidth utilization, traffic
flows and the performance of application service offerings to corporate users.
"NetScout's nGenius solution for NetFlow monitoring offers us
unprecedented, valuable performance information and analysis at both a
granular circuit level and across our entire infrastructure," said the head of
the Data and Fixed Communications Business Department at Shanghai Unicom. "Now
we can understand in real time how our customers are using bandwidth, detect
abnormal traffic trends, and troubleshoot problems to minimize the impact on
our application services. NetScout's Chinese language localization efforts and
flexible reports also set it apart from other vendors."
In the initial deployment, Shanghai Unicom has focused on collecting
NetFlow data from the core routers in the company's data center, as well as
from other core access points for traffic accounting and engineering. With
detailed information such as the 'top talkers' and 'top conversations' on the
network, network managers are able to identify and solve performance issues
much more rapidly than with previous products and practices. Network managers
can now also analyze user behavior patterns to more efficiently allocate
network resources to better serve customers, particularly VIP accounts.
"Shanghai Unicom's successful implementation of the nGenius Solution with
NetFlow is part of a larger trend of forward-looking service providers
adopting leading-edge, integrated network and application performance
technologies to enhance their service delivery and customer satisfaction,"
said Jim Frey, vice president of marketing at NetScout Systems. "With
NetScout's High Definition Performance Management approach, carriers can more
effectively and reliably introduce value-added services to achieve business
growth while reducing network operations costs and assuring high service
quality."
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network and application performance management products and
solutions that unify performance across the enterprise. NetScout's nGenius(R)
Performance Management System is helping more than 3,000 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, nGenius, and Quantiva are registered
trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. The CDM logo, MasterCare, the MasterCare
logo, and Progressive Analytics are trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. Other
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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.
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