NETSCOUT's nGenius Performance Manager Completes Acceptance Testing by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

07 Mar 2005

WESTFORD, Mass., March 7, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of enterprise-wide network and application performance management products and solutions, today announced that its nGenius(R) Performance Management System has successfully completed network testing by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC).

JITC test personnel subjected NetScout's nGenius(R) System to extensive performance tests and confirmed its interoperability with standards-based communications technologies used by the U.S. Defense Department, as well as DoD's Defense Collaboration Tool Suite (DCTS). The nGenius System satisfied all interoperability tests.

"JITC's rigorous testing proves our solution's reliable performance and interoperability in global, mission-critical multi-vendor network environments," said Michael Szabados, senior vice president of product operations at NetScout. "With its superior scalability and comprehensive, real-time visibility into network and application activity, the nGenius System can serve as a core solution for ensuring the availability and performance of critical IT infrastructure for the war fighter."

The nGenius Performance Management System increases the effectiveness and efficiency of network operations through its patent-pending CDM Technology that consolidates multiple types and sources of network and application performance data and combines all key performance management tools for tighter control and accelerated problem solving. Using the nGenius System, IT managers can perform application and network monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, fault prevention and service-level management to troubleshoot, plan and optimize the delivery of mission-critical services, all from a single integrated solution.

This successful interoperability testing by JITC enables NetScout products to be considered in a wide-ranging set of U.S. defense industry applications.

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 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. 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.

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