NETSCOUT Providing Visibility, Metadata, and KPIs to Drive Network
and Services Automation
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 10, 2018--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of service
assurance, security, and business analytics, today announced it has
joined the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) ecosystem, which
encompasses OpenDaylight, OPNFV, ONAP, FD.io, PNDA and SNAS. Through
membership in LFN, NETSCOUT will be able to collaborate with the open
source community with its virtualized visibility instrumentation and
smart data solutions that deliver actionable metadata and KPIs, driving
network and services automation.
“NETSCOUT’s membership in LFN allows us to bring the strength of our
smart data technology to enable automation platforms such as ONAP,”
stated Dr. Vikram Saksena, office of the CTO, NETSCOUT. “As NFV and SDN
technologies gain traction in the network, smart data driven automation
platforms will be essential for creating an agile service delivery
infrastructure for network operators. Our membership in LFN is an
important step in helping to accelerate the agenda for automating
network services in a virtualized environment.”
Whether it is deployed as an instance in a cloud environment or as
a virtual machine on a hypervisor, NETSCOUT’s virtualized visibility and
instrumentation solution leverages the full power of its patented
Adaptive Service Intelligence™ (ASI) technology to present real-time
views of application performance and end-to-end session trace data.
These real-time metrics can be used to drive closed-loop automation
whereby service attributes can be dynamically adjusted for proactive
service assurance and enhanced user experience.
LFN was formed on January 1, 2018 as a new entity within The Linux
Foundation that increases collaboration and operational excellence
across its networking projects. LFN integrates the governance of
participating projects to improve operational excellence and simplify
member engagement.
“We are pleased to have NETSCOUT as part of the expanded LFN ecosystem,”
said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, the Linux Foundation.
“NETSCOUT’s service assurance capabilities will prove invaluable to
service providers and enterprises as they create their networks and
deliver a new generation of services.”
About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) assures digital business services
against disruptions in availability, performance, and security. Our
market and technology leadership stems from combining our patented smart
data technology with smart analytics. We provide real-time, pervasive
visibility, and insights customers need to accelerate and secure their
digital transformation. Our approach transforms the way organizations
plan, deliver, integrate, test, and deploy services and applications.
Our nGenius service assurance solutions provide real-time, contextual
analysis of service, network, and application performance. Arbor
security solutions protect against DDoS attacks that threaten
availability and advanced threats that infiltrate networks to steal
critical business assets. To learn more about improving service,
network, and application performance in physical or virtual data
centers, or in the cloud, and how NETSCOUT’s performance and security
solutions, powered by service intelligence can help you move forward
with confidence, visit www.netscout.com
or follow @NETSCOUT and @ArborNetworks on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
Safe Harbor
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe
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 and capabilities of NETSCOUT’s portfolio of solutions,
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 and subsequent
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which are 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