Chandler, Arizona Secures Network and City with Network General.

City Maintains One of the Country's Fastest Growing Networks

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Network General[TM] Corporation, the leading provider of IT Service Assurance solutions, today announced that one of the fastest growing cites in the United States, City of Chandler, Arizona, has selected Network General to help keep residents - and the network - secure. The city's IT department will leverage the powerful combination of the Sniffer([R]) InfiniStream([R]) product and Sniffer Portable for real time visibility into its network infrastructure allowing the city's IT team to identify and resolve issues before they impact local residents.

The City of Chandler has attracted Fortune 500 companies to the area over the years, presenting new employment opportunities and earning its reputation as the "High Tech Oasis of the Silicon Desert." With more than 11,000 new residents in the last year, and 240,000 residents total, the City of Chandler has had to scale its network to support rapid growth. The city's Network Operations team is responsible for the network that runs many of the city's most vital operations.

"From 911 calls to water bills - network resiliency is essential to maintaining up time and the security posture of the network," said Mitchell Robinson, Chandler's IT Security Administrator. "As one of the fastest growing cities in the country, we can't afford downtime. It is imperative that the network remains secure and running at peak performance at all times to ensure city offices are running smoothly."

By incorporating expert analysis capabilities and advanced protocol decodes, Sniffer Portable can automatically determine, pinpoint and analyze the city's toughest performance problems. In an effort to increase efficiencies of the local police department, the City of Chandler installed laptop computers in all police cars allowing officers to transmit reports and conduct background checks through the national database from their police cars. The Sniffer Portable product ensures that all wireless networks are secure and running optimally at all times. If a problem arises, the Sniffer InfiniStream product graphically depicts the current network, helping IT to pinpoint and resolve issues long before the network is affected, ensuring all police reports are transmitted instantly.

In a city with a high population of children, local recreation activities for families gain popularity in the spring and summer months. During the beginning of these peak seasons, registration for classes at the recreation centers and on-line used to reach all time highs - often attracting more users than could previously be maintained. By leveraging the Sniffer InfiniStream product, the City of Chandler can capture the network traffic required to perform a thorough analysis - allowing IT to identify peak load times and fix the problem, increasing reliability to the end users and ensuring they can register for classes without experiencing problems.

"With a set number of IT professionals maintaining one of the country's fastest growing networks, the ability to leverage Network General solutions literally multiplies the level of support and reliability we can deliver to the city," continued Robinson. "When the network experiences a problem, the issues are resolved fast, helping to keep our network, and our city, secure and available at all times."

About Network General Corporation

Network General is a leading provider of IT management solutions designed to integrate and simplify IT management and troubleshooting across IT domains, assuring the delivery of IT services. The Network General portfolio consists of innovative software solutions and intelligent appliances that monitor and manage all elements of the IT infrastructure including network devices, applications, and servers, while simultaneously delivering a correlated view of the health of the business service. Network General's solutions provide IT professionals with an end-to-end correlated view of the performance and availability of critical business services and the underlying network infrastructure. For more information on Network General, a privately-held company based in San Jose, California, dial [phone] or go to www.networkgeneral.com.

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