New Products Eliminate Obstacles to Scaling Network Monitoring
Infrastructure
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 26, 2017--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ:NTCT), a leading provider of business
assurance, a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions, today announced a software-driven
addition to its nGenius® Packet Flow System (PFS) product family. The nGenius
PFS 5000 models deliver a new packet broker architecture in the
visibility market, de-coupling packet broker functions from its
underlying hardware and offering an industry-leading open compute
platform option for network packet brokers.
“NETSCOUT is embracing disruption by porting its packet flow visibility
software to cost-effective white box switches,” said Stephen Collins,
principal analyst, Network Visibility & Analytics, ACG Research. “The
value in networking is moving from specialized, purpose-built hardware
to software-driven open compute platforms that scale easily while
ensuring flexibility and agility for enterprise and service provider
network operators, and NETSCOUT is helping its customers realize this
value.”
The new software-driven nGenius PFS 5000 models operate at speeds from
10Gbps to 100Gbps, providing aggregation, replication and filtering.
Enabled with self-organizing mesh technology, pfsMesh, the nGenius PFS
5000 series scales on-demand for network monitoring needs of any size.
pfsMesh automatically and dynamically interconnects multiple packet flow
systems together, ensuring high availability of monitoring tools,
whether they are in the same data center or separated by large
distances, and reducing operational complexity.
“The new products are the first step toward a complete disaggregation of
network packet broker functionality, where the NETSCOUT Packet Flow
Operating System (PFOS) software is decoupled from the underlying
hardware,” said Sanjay Munshi, vice president of products for PFS
business unit, NETSCOUT. “The first controller-less open compute
approach brings significant flexibility for our customers enabling them
to cost-effectively evolve and further scale their monitoring
infrastructures on demand. This customer-driven innovation reflects our
long-standing focus on elevating our value proposition through
software-centric solutions.”
This software-driven approach complements NETSCOUT’s purpose-built PFS
products that deliver advanced packet conditioning and manipulation to
enable deep-packet visibility and non-blocking performance. The nGenius
PFS 5000 can be used in stand-alone deployments, or in combination with
other PFS products, such as the nGenius PFS 6000 model, which provides
the industry’s highest port density and non-blocking throughput at
6Tbps. Both product lines share PFOS-derived capabilities, which reduce
learning curves and improves IT efficiencies.
The nGenius PFS 5000 series is available now for cost effective, high
density 10 GbE and 40/100 GbE Packet Broker deployments. The solution
will be demonstrated at the NETSCOUT booth (#1736) during the Cisco Live
conference and expo in Las Vegas, June 26-29, 2017. For more information
visit https://www.netscout.com/pfs/network-packet-broker-software-evolution.
About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:NTCT) is a leading provider of business
assurance – a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions – for today’s most demanding service
provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive
Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service
delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight
into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve
issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience.
NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital
infrastructure that supports our connected world. To learn more, visit www.netscout.com
or follow @NETSCOUT on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
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harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
and other federal securities laws. Investors are cautioned that
statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical
statements, including without limitation, the statements related to the
benefits of NETSCOUT’s software-driven open compute platform addition to
its nGenius Packet Flow System product family, constitute
forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. Actual
results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements due
to known and unknown risk, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors.
Such factors include slowdowns or downturns in economic conditions
generally and in the market for advanced network and service assurance
solutions specifically; the volatile foreign exchange environment; the
Company’s relationships with strategic partners and resellers;
dependence upon broad-based acceptance of the Company’s network
performance management solutions; the presence of competitors with
greater financial resources than ours and their strategic response to
our products; our ability to retain key executives and employees; and
lower than expected demand for the Company’s products and services. For
a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with the
Company, please refer to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017, which is on file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. NETSCOUT assumes no obligation to
update any forward-looking information contained in this press release
or with respect to the announcements described herein.
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NETSCOUT
Donna Candelori, +1-408-571-5226
Director, Corporate
Communications
donna.candelori@netscout.com