NETSCOUT Adds 10 New Service Provider Deployments as It Continues to Redefine IP Service Assurance

15 Dec 2010

The nGenius Service Assurance Solution continues to gain rapid global adoption by enabling operators to address the challenges of IP service quality and subscriber experience amidst growing multimedia subscriber traffic

WESTFORD, Mass., Dec 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NetScout(R) Systems, Inc., today announced that the nGenius(R) Service Assurance Solution has been deployed by 10 new service providers to assure the quality and accelerate the velocity of IP service delivery for their Next Generation IP network deployments in the United States, China, Indonesia, Egypt and the Middle East. With these new deployments, NetScout IP Service Assurance solutions are now deployed on 130 service provider networks across 42 countries as NetScout continues to redefine and transform how IP services are managed and assured.

"The nGenius Service Assurance Solution has been deployed at all major operators in the United States and Canada, and a significant number of tier-one operators across Europe, Asia and Latin America. This announcement demonstrates our continued market traction as we continue to expand our presence in both mobile and wireline environments," said Steven Shalita, vice president of marketing, NetScout. "As service providers across the world continue to undertake massive IP transformation projects to leverage the benefits of IP networks to drive service innovation, they have selected NetScout to close the visibility gap between subscribers, services and networks with more timely, unified and consistent information to better solve problems and maximize subscriber value."

As service delivery networks continue to evolve to support rich media, entertainment and broadband services, business users and consumers have high expectations for their network experience and are demanding faster access with higher reliability and service quality. NetScout provides a unified service delivery management framework to deliver unprecedented real-time and historical analysis and reporting for complex multi-protocol IP networks. The nGenius Service Assurance Solution helps operators increase subscriber value through a better user experience, and enables them to make better business decisions and improve the profitability of services delivered. Building on the company's 26 year history of continued innovation and evolution of packet-flow technology, the nGenius Service Assurance Solution captures, correlates and analyzes both data plane and control plane IP traffic to enable a granular understanding of the subscriber experience along with network, application and service performance to deliver the most pervasive view of an end-to-end IP service delivery environment. Widely deployed on mobile networks, the nGenius solution manages multi-generation IP networks ranging from 2.5G, to 3G and LTE from a single unified platform. This provides operators with consistent views into performance that allows them to maximize their service assurance investments and better assure inter-domain subscriber experiences.

About NetScout Systems, Inc.

NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. For 26 years, NetScout has delivered breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius(R) and Sniffer(R) solutions are deployed at more than 20,000 of the world's largest enterprises, government agencies, and more than 130 service providers, on over 740,000 network segments to assure the network, applications, and service delivery to their users and customers. More information about NetScout is available at www.netscout.com.

NetScout, nGenius and Sniffer are registered trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc.

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