Digital Link and NetScout Systems Announce Strategic
Alliance
Agreement Produces Comprehensive Enterprise Management Solutions
from Digital Link Corporation and NetScout
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1997--Digital Link of Sunnyvale, CA and
NetScout Systems Inc., (formerly Frontier Software Development, Inc.) of Chelmsford, MA
today announced a joint technology development and marketing agreement.
"This partnership is a convergence of leaders," said Narendra Popat, co-founder and president of
NetScout Systems. "NetScout is a leader in standards-based client/server application monitoring,
diagnostic and reporting tools and Digital Link's broad range of WAN access and management
platforms makes them a leader in their market," he said. "Together we provide a standards-based,
scalable solution to customers whose success depends on proactive traffic monitoring up to the
application layer. We have answers for T1/E1, NXT1/E1, T3/E3, Unix, Windows and the Web.
No one else comes close," said Popat.
Today's enterprise LAN/WAN network architectures are evolving to support an increasing level
of shared information across intranets, extranets and the Internet. "Our collective efforts will
provide a new level of end-to-end network visibility and application availability," said Alan Fraser,
president and CEO of Digital Link.
"This new alliance has strategic benefits for two customer sets: service providers and enterprises,"
said Fraser. "Using our joint technologies, service providers will have a valuable tool to offer
service level assurance, thus enabling them to differentiate themselves in a competitive
environment," he said. "In addition, enterprise managers will have a cost-effective solution that
helps them proactively manage their networks," said Fraser.
About Digital Link and NetScout Systems
Digital Link Corp designs, manufactures, markets and supports a broad range of high-speed digital
access products, ranging from 56 Kbps to 155 Mbps for global wide area networks. The
company's products are used by service providers as infrastructure equipment and by business
enterprises for connectivity to WAN services, such as leased lines, Frame Relay, SMDS and
ATM. Digital Link is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with worldwide sales offices in the
UK and Germany. Company information about products and services is available on Digital Link's
Web site: dl.com .
Since 1992, NetScout Systems, Inc. (formerly Frontier Software Development, Inc.) has been the
leader in offering powerful, proactive solutions for network and application traffic monitoring,
diagnosing and reporting. NetScout's award-winning NetScout Probes and NetScout Manager
applications are based on EnterpriseRMON, a compliant superset of RMON1 and RMON2. The
NetScout product family provides unique solutions beyond RMON2 by supporting all
LAN/WAN topologies including switched LANs, VLANs and Frame Relay. In addition,
NetScout systems provide end-to-end standard or custom application monitoring for distributed
enterprise networks. NetScout Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Company news and product-service information are available on Netscout's Web site:
netscout.com .
NOTE TO EDITORS: WANview Network Management Systems is a trademark of Digital Link
Corporation. NetScout is a registered trademark and NetScout Manager and EnterpriseRMON
are trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
CONTACT: Digital Link
Leslie Conley, 408/745-4195
lconley@dl.com
www.dl.com
or
Breakthru Communications
Barbara Kline, 408/777-9364
bkline@breakthrucom.com |
