NetQoS Performance Center Positioned to Become Primary Network Performance Management Platform for IT Organizations.

New Version of NetQoS Management Console Simplifies Collection, Analysis of End-to-End Performance, Traffic Analysis, Device Performance, and Third-Party Network and Application Performance Data

AUSTIN, Texas -- The NetQoS([R]) Performance Center is helping hundreds of global organizations manage the increasing complexity and volume of application data across the wide area network (WAN). In answer to greater usage by engineering, management and operations within IT groups and increased customer demand, NetQoS has launched a new version of the NetQoS Performance Center to help establish it as the main network performance management platform within IT.

The new version of the NetQoS Performance Center simplifies the collection and analysis of network performance management data in one platform, better equipping IT organizations to improve application delivery through customized drilling into all the data they need to see. New and enhanced features include:

* Inbound/outbound integration using Web services: Customers can now export any NetQoS Performance Center view to third-party Web-based applications with just a few mouse clicks. In addition, NetQoS now has a published platform to display any inbound third-party application or custom data source in the Performance Center.

Coradiant[TM] integrates data from its TrueSight[TM] Real-User Web Monitoring platform into the NetQoS Performance Center to enable IT groups to view networked application performance and Web transaction monitoring data in one management console. The combination will facilitate quicker and easier troubleshooting of network infrastructure and Web performance problems.

* Enhanced user interface (UI): Based on extensive user testing, the NetQoS Performance Center's UI has been designed for intuitive use by different IT functional groups to maximize staff efficiency and collaboration. The state-of-the-art UI also provides a foundation for adding functionality in future releases as product and partner technology integration increases. Based on feedback from NetQoS customers who have standardized on the Performance Center as their central console for network performance management in network operations centers and call centers, the new Web-based UI has been optimized for viewing and interpreting data-rich charts and reports.

* Updated sign-on features: The new version simplifies the administration and configuration process for NetQoS customers using multiple product modules with the NetQoS Performance Center.

* More customizable page views: Any page in the NetQoS Performance Center can now easily be made a user's home page, enabling staff members to readily view the data most relevant to them.

London-based ICI Group, one of the world's largest producers of specialty products and paints, deployed the NetQoS Performance Center's ReporterAnalyzer([TM]) module to gain visibility into network traffic from 320 locations in 46 countries. With its data traffic increasing 100 percent year over year due to international expansion, ICI's network team is under a mandate to control network costs and ensure efficient application delivery.

"As we strive to contain costs and make more informed decisions about bandwidth procurement and troubleshooting, our MPLS service providers could not give us the visibility we needed into detailed application traffic patterns," said Hitesh Parmer, ICI Group's global network technology manager. "Using ReporterAnalyzer with NetQoS Performance Center management reports gives us centralized visibility into traffic patterns across our global locations. This data enables us to justify bandwidth upgrades, reduce network costs by identifying under-utilized sites, troubleshoot issues faster, and analyze the impact of new application rollouts to prioritize traffic appropriately."

"In addition, the NetQoS Performance Center gives the network teams at each of our business units the ability to manage their own sites with customized views into their own traffic and alerting," continued Parmer. "From a business perspective, it's a cleaner and faster approach and has made the everyday life of the network managers much easier."

The NetQoS Performance Center's product modules - which consist of NetQoS SuperAgent([R]) for end-to-end performance monitoring, NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer for Cisco IOS([R]) NetFlow and IPFIX traffic reporting and analysis, and NetQoS NetVoyant([R]) for device and infrastructure performance management - include the following new capabilities:

NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer:

* 30 days of one-minute granularity data: ReporterAnalyzer's product architecture scales to handle the number of interfaces and volume of flow data in the world's largest networks. Now, customers have access to detailed information at one-minute granularity for 30 days to analyze and solve network and application performance issues even faster.

* Enhanced type of service (ToS) capabilities: As more customers move to MPLS environments and roll out applications such as VoIP and video on their networks, requiring various quality of service (QoS) policies, the ability to understand the impact of change is vital. ReporterAnalyzer provides the means to monitor how new technologies are impacting the environment by giving customers visibility into what applications are colored with specific ToS values and how different classes of traffic are distributed across their enterprise environment.

NetQoS SuperAgent:

* Role-based permission sets - By providing different views into performance information, SuperAgent helps IT organizations share information more easily to solve problems faster and report service levels. With its enhanced role-based permission sets, SuperAgent enables customers to assign users to one or many roles and to give those roles permissions to view one or many groups (applications, servers, networks) and any or all of the reporting sections within the product.

The NetQoS Performance Center is available to customers at no additional cost with the purchase of one of NetQoS' product modules: NetQoS SuperAgent starting at $40,000, NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer starting at $25,000 or NetQoS NetVoyant starting at $25,000.

NetQoS launched the new version of the NetQoS Performance Center today at Cisco Networkers in Cannes, France, being held Jan. 30-Feb. 2. Attendees may request a demo at booth G-2.

For more information about the NetQoS Performance Center or any of its product modules, visit http://www.netqos.com/solutions/NPC

About the NetQoS Performance Center

The NetQoS Performance Center product suite provides global visibility, via a single Web-based management console, into the key metrics necessary to quantify network performance: end-to-end performance, traffic analysis, and device performance. By providing customizable, role-specific views into this data, the NetQoS Performance Center helps IT professionals, including engineering, operations, and management, to:

* Measure end user response times

* Provide consistent application service delivery

* Understand how infrastructure changes affect network and application performance

* Isolate performance problems to the application, server, or network

* Identify the applications and users consuming bandwidth, and when

* Avoid unnecessary WAN costs

* Manage the convergence of voice, video and data

* Identify virus or denial of service attacks 

About NetQoS Inc.

NetQoS software and services help large organizations - including 8 of the Fortune 12 - improve the delivery of applications over wide area networks by enabling them to monitor application service levels, troubleshoot problems quickly, and plan for change. Representative NetQoS customers include Chevron, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Hilton Hotels, Siemens, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, NASA, and Barclays Global Investors. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NetQoS has R&D centers in Austin and Raleigh, N.C., and regional sales offices in London and Singapore. For more information, visit www.netqos.com or call 877-835-9575.

NetQoS, SuperAgent, and NetVoyant are registered trademarks and ReporterAnalyzer is a trademark of NetQoS Inc. All other trade names, trademarks, and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.