WESTFORD, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of network and application performance management solutions, today announced the highest attendance ever at the NetScout User Forum conference, which took place last week in Cambridge, Mass.

NetScout's network engineering, operations and IT management users from enterprise and service provider businesses, civilian government and defense agencies converged at the 2005 conference for education by their peers and NetScout's top engineering talent. During the conference, user forum members from around the world shared best practices and met with NetScout executives and engineers to discuss the most pressing trends impacting the performance of their business-critical applications and networks.

Additional Conference Highlights

Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout presented the evolution of the company's High Definition Performance Management (HDPM) strategy in relation to the company's expanding product lines and future industry trends.

Educational sessions led by NetScout engineering and experienced customers included techniques to take advantage of the nGenius Performance Management Solution's integration with HP Openview, expand network monitoring capabilities with NetScout's NetFlow collection, and exploit the nGenius Flow Recorder's extended trace recording and expert analysis capabilities.

NetScout's training and customer support organizations led hands-on lab training sessions and best-practices workshops.

Keynote addresses by Daniel Burrus, notable technology futurist, and Dr. Jim Metzler, industry analyst and Network World columnist. Burrus delivered entertaining and practical tips for attendees to improve visibility into the near-future and embrace useful technologies for automation. Dr. Metzler spoke on the growing and future impact of Web services on enterprise networks.

"The NetScout User Forum conference has become a vitally important source of collaboration between our user base and product development and marketing teams, to best focus our offerings on helping organizations improve the performance of the business-critical applications that depend upon their networks," said Michael Szabados, senior vice president of product operations, NetScout Systems. "Our user forum has become the single-largest annual event NetScout organizes, which is a sign of the vigor and usefulness of the dialogue customers have with us and with other customers."

About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of integrated network and application performance management products and solutions that unify performance across the enterprise. NetScout’s nGenius Performance Management System is helping more than 3,000 leading companies increase their return on infrastructure investments by optimizing the performance of networks and applications according to business priorities. NetScout is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has offices worldwide. Further information is available at http://www.netscout.com.

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