WESTFORD, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) today announced a new family of
nGenius® WAN/Frame Relay Probes that allow enterprises to extend management
capabilities to T3/E3 circuits in their corporate data centers and to T1/E1
circuits at remote sites. These innovative new products offer optional Fast
Ethernet monitoring or nGenius (R)Network Security Adaptor configurations
supported in a single probe to cost effectively manage both LAN and WAN
performance at remote offices, or to extend the security perimeter of their
networks.
The new probes empower enterprises to implement management capabilities
for their remote sites without having to add remote staff or management tools.
By extending visibility into LAN and WAN traffic at remote locations, data
center staff can rapidly respond to service degradations occurring within, or
originating from other facilities -- without the costly expense of deploying
third party maintenance personnel. In addition, they can better verify
capacity needs that match the business use of the network to the bandwidth
requirements of each location.
The probes can optionally be configured to simultaneously monitor the
performance of Fast Ethernet LAN business traffic within remote facilities and
the Frame Relay WAN traffic running between remote facilities and corporate
data centers. Companies with significant remote operations, such as retailers,
banks and insurance companies, have a strong need to assure availability and
performance of networked services for their remote sites.
"Most large enterprises face the problem of controlling remote office
resources with limited staff," stated Michael Howard, principal analyst and
co-founder of Infonetics Research. "NetScout's new WAN probes are designed to
meet this problem head on, with the ability to monitor application traffic on
both the WANs and the LANs of worldwide locations from a single central
corporate site. With these probes, enterprises can standardize on a single
performance management solution to get full control over IT resources and
performance."
Alternatively, the nGenius Network Security Adaptor can be optionally
added to any of the new base T3/E3 or T1/E1 WAN probes to extend the security
of their WAN perimeter with visibility into incoming Internet traffic. This
configuration helps enterprises optimize their network security investments by
opening up deployment options at the edge, eliminating extra taps for WAN
circuits and improving the quality of traffic being fed to their network-based
intrusion detection systems.
nGenius probes offer high performance, real-time monitoring of all types
of standard, Web-based and home-grown applications. They collect key
performance metrics such as traffic and application utilization,
conversations, error conditions, response times and data captures. nGenius
probe information is displayed via NetScout's flagship performance management
application, nGenius (R)Performance Manager 1.4. nGenius Performance Manager
leverages the data made available through NetScout's patent-pending CDM(TM)
technology to deliver real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, protocol
analysis, capacity planning and historical reporting from a single,
comprehensive solution.
The new probes are offered with flexible configurations to meet the unique
needs of individual customers. Key features:
- Configuration options for nGenius T3/E3 WAN Probe include one or two
HSSI, DS3 or E3 Frame Relay monitoring interfaces.
- Configuration options for nGenius T1/E1 WAN Probes include one or two
serial T1/E1 ports or up to four T1 or E1 demarcation ports.
- Value-added options for Fast Ethernet LAN monitoring or enhancing NIDS
deployment flexibility via the nGenius Network Security Adaptor.
- Unique views of entire Frame Relay trunks, with associated DLCIs
simultaneously, to rapidly identify bandwidth abusers.
"With this new product line introduction, NetScout is extending its
leadership position, offering the most flexible and cost-effective enterprise-
wide WAN/LAN/Security performance management solutions available in the market
today," said Jim Frey, vice president of marketing for NetScout. "By
strategically deploying nGenius probes at remote sites, enterprises can assure
that adequate resources are in place for their remote operations, and that
networks and applications within those sites are optimized to assure that
business services are performing to meet business needs."
Pricing and Availability
The nGenius 9400 WAN Probes start at $7,995 and are available today. For
additional product or ordering information about nGenius solutions, call
NetScout Systems at 1-800-657-7666 or visit our Website
http://www.netscout.com.
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's offerings are based upon its
nGenius® Performance Management System, an integrated solution 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 other network devices. The nGenius System
helps organizations increase their return on infrastructure investments by
optimizing the performance of their network and applications. NetScout is
headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has 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 and the NetScout logo, and nGenius are registered trademarks of
NetScout Systems, Inc. ART MIB, Because the Network is the Business, 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 or Erin Del Llano
NetScout Systems Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(978) 614-4162 (781) 684-0770
flynnp@netscout.com netscout@schwartz-pr.com