EVERETT, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/29/07 -- Fluke Networks today announced the availability of Visual Performance Manager, a new, unified performance management system that provides unparalleled breadth and depth of visibility for network and application performance across the entire enterprise. This new system addresses a major problem facing today's IT teams, that of managing end-to-end performance and user quality of experience of applications, VoIP communications and network performance across the distributed enterprise.

"IT staffs are very concerned with their ability to monitor and manage the myriad of products and services at their branch locations," says Robin Gareiss, executive vice president of Nemertes Research. "Often, they don't have the tools they need to measure application and network performance before and after a new IT initiative. Without this data, they can't document success or failure of IT projects, so it's imperative to invest in products that deliver that information."

Visual Performance Manager provides unique, easy-to-understand views that quickly identify performance degradation while providing in-depth, root cause analysis of performance issues.

Improved visibility, faster turn-up, less risk

The broad visibility offered by Visual Performance Manager can help IT organizations introduce new business and application services faster, more efficiently and with less risk by displaying detailed resource utilization and rapidly showing the impact of changes. Visual Performance Manager also reduces the time needed to determine whether a problem is associated with the network, server, or application. Combined with the ability to drill into root cause, Visual Performance Manager offers significantly shorter time to actual resolution and turn-up.

"Our customers have been asking for a unified, end-to-end performance management system," said Jeff Lime, Fluke Networks' Senior Vice President of Marketing. "We have delivered by integrating three great technologies into one system -- Visual Performance Manager -- that adds tremendous value to both our current and potential customers."

Unified Performance Management: Integration of data from multiple sources

Visual Performance Manager provides visual management tools using information from a wide array of data sources. This includes data collected from the network infrastructure, dedicated hardware and other web-based enterprise management applications to provide a comprehensive picture of enterprise performance. Visual Performance Manager also represents Fluke Networks' integration of two recently acquired product lines, Visual UpTime Select and NetFlow Tracker, into a cohesive management suite.

"Fluke Networks' Visual Performance Manager will allow us to integrate the full range of our application performance management services for our customers from a single pane of glass," said Fang Wu, Vice President, Customer Solutions, NTT America, Inc. "Other monitoring services and tools we provide can now be combined within Visual Performance Manager and integrated into our existing portals to give our customers the level of collective detail they need at each network site to best manage the performance of their critical applications."

Visual Performance Manager is designed as an extensible platform. The system provides easy integration of new data sources, user-definable access control, and customizable views and reports as management needs change over time. Visual Performance Manager is built for both today's IT challenges and designed to incorporate the performance management technologies necessary to tackle tomorrow's technology inflection points.

Product availability

Visual Performance Manager is available for immediate delivery, as part of Fluke Networks' Enterprise Performance Management solutions, from Fluke Networks' sales contacts worldwide.

About Fluke Networks

Fluke Networks provides innovative solutions for the installation and certification, testing, monitoring and analysis of copper, fiber and wireless networks used by enterprises and telecommunications carriers. The company's comprehensive line of Network SuperVision(TM) Solutions provide network installers, owners, and maintainers with superior vision, combining speed, accuracy and ease of use to optimize network performance. Headquartered in Everett, Washington, the company distributes its products in more than 50 countries. More information can be found by visiting Fluke Networks' Web site at www.flukenetworks.com or by calling (800) 283-5853.

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