Leads Industry With Next Major Evolution of CDM Technology, Increasing
Granularity and Restoring Visibility for Managing Network and Application
Performance
WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT) today announced a new technology initiative that further
extends its lead in providing the industry's most comprehensive and powerful
network and application performance management solutions. With the
introduction of High Definition Performance Management (HDPM), NetScout is
directly addressing the critical need for detailed, granular visibility of
application performance in today's large, complex, global enterprise and
governmental networks.
Two parallel trends have motivated NetScout to bring these capabilities to
the market. First, application traffic loads on the network are continuing to
increase, both as a result of broader use of applications as a basis for real-
time business and due to the deployment of a continuing series of layers and
complexity within the application layer, including IP voice, web services,
Citrix and multicast/multimedia. Driven largely by this need, enterprises and
governmental organizations are upgrading to higher speed infrastructures
together with a variety of virtual network and QoS traffic prioritization
schemes in order to protect the integrity of mission-critical applications and
services. As a result, requirements for visibility into the health and
activity of those applications are changing, demanding more detailed
information at a higher rate of collection in order to provide the necessary
hard information for IT organizations to assure service delivery and
adequately provide decision support.
NetScout is meeting these challenges by extending its nGenius(R)
Performance Management System with High Definition capabilities in three key
areas:
-- First, by recording comprehensive details on all traffic flows, all
the time, collecting and retaining an unprecedented level of granularity
in historical application and network traffic data, including sustained
recording of all conversations and activity on 60-second intervals and
including 1-second peaks.
-- Second, by delivering rich visibility into the actual usage and
activity of today's varied and complex enterprise applications, such as
recognizing, tracking and reporting web traffic per specific URL or sub-
URL, applications being served over Citrix MetaFrame, multimedia
streaming via IP Multicast, peer-to-peer sessions, and multi-layered
applications utilizing web services architectures.
-- And third, by simultaneously capturing and revealing comprehensive
details of user and application utilization by any and all combinations
of individual or aggregated physical or virtual network constructs, most
importantly including transparency for QoS policy groupings and
prioritization schemes.
These capabilities coalesce to deliver a framework that IT organizations
can leverage for decision support, operational optimization, proactive service
assurance, and rapid response to degradations and failures. Further, with
this evolution step, NetScout will have the groundwork in place to operate on
the rich application and network performance data collected via its patent-
pending CDM Technology.
"It is great to see leading industry vendors expanding customer value from
within their existing product footprint," said Dennis Drogseth, vice
president, Enterprise Management Associates. "The HDPM approach fits right
into our vision of how the network management industry is evolving, and
NetScout is in the right place at the right time to deliver."
"The CDM (TM) strategy and architecture that NetScout launched over two
years ago is allowing us to address major new challenges that are changing the
complexion of the performance management landscape," said Anil Singhal,
president, CEO, and co-founder of NetScout Systems. "With the advent of our
High Definition capabilities, NetScout is pulling away from the rest of the
field of performance tool vendors, establishing a generational gap between our
solution and analyzer-based or statistical approaches, without requiring our
customers to undertake a wholesale upgrade."
Availability
High Definition extensions to the nGenius Performance Management System
will be available within 60 days as cost-free upgrades for all current owners
of nGenius(R) Performance Manager and nGenius(R) Probe products under
NetScout's MasterCare program.
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
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 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.
For Further Information:
Peggy Flynn Dawn Sullivan or Erin Del Llano
NetScout Systems, Inc. Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(978) 614-4162 (781) 684-0770
flynnp@netscout.com netscout@schwartz-pr.com
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