New Features Address Information Gaps and Challenges of Correctly Implementing
and Monitoring Differentiated Services End-Through-End
WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/-- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of enterprise-wide network performance
management solutions, today announced that enterprises can improve the
accuracy and success of their QoS implementations using new, enhanced QoS
monitoring capabilities available in NetScout's nGenius(R) Performance
Management Solution. As one of the latest management complexity challenges
addressed under NetScout's CDM(TM) Technology initiative, NetScout's QoS
monitoring features allow IT managers to plan, implement, validate and
optimize DSCP-based QoS deployments in the context of their entire network and
application infrastructures. With a more comprehensive understanding of the
impact and effectiveness of QoS traffic management on the total network
environment, enterprises can better ensure that their networked applications
and services are meeting business priorities.
Driven by the need to leverage existing network bandwidth more fully,
protect mission critical applications, and ensure the quality of delay-
sensitive traffic such as Voice-over-IP and streaming media, large enterprises
and government agencies are increasingly turning to QoS traffic classification
in their network configurations. Planning a QoS implementation is difficult,
but many are finding an even more daunting challenge in understanding whether
or not their deployment was successful. Without a means to directly quantify
the network traffic utilizing each classification, network operators are left
to guess whether their prioritization schemes are achieving the desired
balance, are unduly impacting or restricting lower priority traffic, or are
being compromised by improperly configured network devices.
"As enterprise IS organizations advance toward a more mature IT service
management model, they are using differentiated classes of service to help
align IT infrastructure capacity with business priorities," said Debra Curtis,
research director for Gartner, Inc. "To ensure their QoS programs are
effective, IT managers must be prepared to validate that business applications
are being delivered according to their assigned class of service and to
proactively suggest tuning of service classes to reflect changing business
needs and priorities."
The nGenius(R) Solution unifies network and application performance
management for the converging enterprise. NetScout's flagship application,
nGenius(R) Performance Manager, leverages the unified data made available
through NetScout's patent-pending CDM technology to deliver consistent
utilization, response time and availability metrics for application
monitoring, network monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, fault
prevention and service level management -- all from a single, fully-integrated
solution.
Using the new QoS monitoring capabilities in the nGenius Solution, IT
organizations can justify QoS decisions and demonstrate the effectiveness of
QoS deployments by:
-- Performing accurate network audits to identify all applications on the
network as input to developing traffic policies and assigning service
classes, or DSCPs (Differentiated Services Code Points)
-- Automatically identifying DSCPs, allowing rapid recognition and
monitoring of QoS traffic, network-wide
-- Viewing all real-time traffic within each QoS class collectively or
independently in the same manner as physical or virtual network
segments, revealing details on top talkers, hosts and conversations
-- Capturing and analyzing packet-level traces by individual QoS classes
for in-depth troubleshooting
-- Sending IP Ping tests with a QoS classification to streamline problem
identification and resolution
-- Reporting against groups of applications within each particular code
point to efficiently pinpoint misconfigured devices in large,
distributed environments
-- Generating historical reports by QoS level to understand changes in
traffic patterns and trends for making informed traffic engineering and
capacity planning decisions
"NetScout offers a unique solution that combines traffic information by
QoS level with the broader performance metrics of the network," said Michael
Szabados, senior vice president of product operations for NetScout Systems.
"These new features evidence the power and extensibility of our CDM
Architecture for managing cutting-edge technologies with the same tools that
can be used to manage current environments. Enterprises can use them to
validate both that QoS traffic is being delivered as expected and that results
of QoS deployments are achieving desired business and IT service goals."
Pricing and Availability
The new QoS monitoring features are available in nGenius Performance
Manager 2.0 and all models of nGenius Probes at no additional charge.
Existing NetScout MasterCare customers can receive the new features for free
by upgrading to these latest product versions. 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 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
NetScout Systems
(978) 614-4162
flynnp@netscout.com
Dawn Sullivan
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(781) 684-0770
netscout@schwartz-pr.com
SOURCE NetScout Systems, Inc.