The Performance Zone

A conversation with Brian Noone - Attending Cisco Live

Submitted by Brian Robertson, Product Marketing Manager at NetScout Systems

We sat down with Brian Noone, Manager of Network Systems at NetScout Systems to get a first hand account of his experience at cisco live.

If you also attended Cisco Live and would like to share your thoughts about the event we would like to hear from you.

Mozilla’s new world record could have been better!

Submitted by Michael Valladao, NetScout Product Marketing Manager

Mozilla is petitioning Guinness for a new world record category for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period.  Earlier this month, Mozilla released Firefox 3, hosting a Download Day event and Bar-B-Que at their Mountain View headquarters.  They also prompted users to join in on the fun by adding “Download Day” buttons to websites and encouraging friends and associates to download within the 24 hour period.

Get Ready to Engage!

    

We are pleased to announce the official launch of Engage '08 - the 7th Annual NetScout User Summit. Attend Engage '08 and experience the next evolution of your favorite nGenius and Sniffer solutions.

Exciting News for Riverbed Technology, a New NetScout Alliance Partner!

Submitted by Adam Reeves, NetScout Solutions Marketing Manager

Congratulations to our new alliance partner, Riverbed Technology, on being identified as the market share leader in WAN optimization controllers! Gartner has recognized the company as the market share leader for first quarter of 2008, the 7^th quarter in a row that the company has been recognized as the market share leader in this space! (Read the Gartner article)

Is the 3G iPhone still what's hot?

Submitted by NetScout's Eileen Haggerty, Director of Product Marketing

So how did you spend your weekend?  Were you in line to get one of the new iPhone 3Gs?  Looks like a lot of folks were given that 1 million have already been sold in just 3 days.  Yahoo News "Apple sells 1 million iPhones in first 3 days"

That’s potentially a million new mobile IP users that AT&T is going to need to support – no small challenge if you consider simply the activation challenges that ensued over the weekend.   Ongoing services performance for everything from music downloads to web surfing to VoIP calls will also need to be managed and monitored to keep the subscribers satisfied. 

08-08-08 - Oh Great!!! - Olympics Overload

Submitted by Heidi Gabrielson, NetScout Solutions Marketing Manager

Today, NBC announced that it will be providing an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage over seven NBC Universal networks, as well as on NBCOlympics.com.  NBCOlympics.com will feature approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming broadband video coverage across 25 sports over the 17 days of the Beijing Games (Aug. 8-24).  Are you and your network prepared for this potential onslaught?

Visualizing Statistics with nGenius InfiniStream

nGenius InfiniStream gathers a wealth of short-term statistics, but how easy is it to view graphs, trends, and other useful troubleshooting reports? In this tutorial video from Wes Roberts, we’ll learn how the nGenius InfiniStream user interface makes it simple to quickly view graphs and application statistics.

Creating Ad Hoc Reports in Performance Manager

Would you like to customize nGenius Performance Manager reports to show the information that’s most important to you? In this video, Ernie Fleming uses just a few mouse clicks to build the perfect report, complete with company logo, annotation, and personalized graphs.

nGenius InfiniStream Quick Select Overview

Imagine capturing terabytes of network traffic with hours of network and application statistics at your disposal. Where do you start? How do you find the most important monitoring and troubleshooting information?

In this video, Wes Roberts takes us on a tour of the nGenius InfiniStream Quick Select window and shows us how easy it is to create a customized display of statistics and graphs with just a few mouse clicks.