Trends:
Digital Transformation, 5G, and Security

NETSCOUT's service assurance and security solutions are enabling the world's largest and most innovative organizations to optimize network performance, ensure delivery of mission-critical services and applications, gain insight into the end-user experience and protect the network for attack as they navigate the latest technology trends.

ENTERPRISE
Enterprises worldwide are accelerating the advancement of major digital transformation initiatives for business continuity and contingency planning, to improve the delivery of new products and services, to enhance mission-critical operational workflows and to drive operational and capital efficiency — all while taking overall quality, performance, and security to new levels. To keep pace with this innovation, CIOs and IT operations teams are turning to NETSCOUT for a holistic approach to realtime network, application and infrastructure performance management based on end-to-end visibility into all service delivery interdependencies. This holistic approach includes assurance across physical and virtual, on-premises and off-premises, and in private and public clouds. We refer to this as "Visibility Without Boarders" and believe it allows organizations the confidence to innovate while maintaining control in their ever-changing worlds.

NETSCOUT's ability to capture and analyze wire data in real-time is helping drive increased collaboration between network and security operations teams as well. NETSCOUT recently began integrating the Company's historical strength in packet forensics with Arbor's robust catalog of known security threats. The addition of Arbor's threat catalog enables network and security teams to work faster and more efficiently to identify and investigate potential network-based security breaches. NETSCOUT recently launched Arbor Threat Analytics and Sightline with Sentinel as solutions to leverage this powerful combination. Today these technologies are unleashing the next generation of smart distributed denial of service (DDoS) solutions. Finally as enterprises start to take advantage of 5G networks and technologies, NETSCOUT can bridge the 5G gap for them by leveraging our expertise in both the enterprise and the service provider verticals.

SERVICE PROVIDER
Across fixed line, 3G, 4G and now 5G network architectures, NETSCOUT's service assurance solutions are helping digital service providers gain end-to-end, real-time, reliable visibility into their network and the services they deliver over them. As a result, service providers gain timely insight into network problems, quickly pinpoint issues, automate key processes, and better understand the subscriber experience. As tier-one operators across North America and other major geographic regions invest in 5G, NETSCOUT is 5G ready. We are well-positioned to leverage our incumbency to help carriers in each phase of the network lifecycle from planning and launch to monetization and optimization.

Carriers worldwide also rely on NETSCOUT's Arbor family of market-leading smart DDoS solutions to detect and mitigate an ever-expanding range of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that are aimed at disrupting network or service availability. As DDoS attacks continue to increase in frequency, volume and complexity, NETSCOUT's enhanced capabilities are enabling service providers to realize significant benefits, including increased efficiency of their DDoS defenses and broader network infrastructure; greater insight into their network topologies, customers and traffic patterns via powerful, big data analytics and visualizations; and opportunities to monetize their investment in NETSCOUT Arbor technology through managed DDoS services for their enterprise customers.