“Understanding how network services are being utilized can be as important to IT managers as assuring service performance,” said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates. “Usage has tremendous contextual relevance to service planning, troubleshooting and security. March Madness is one of those moments when real-time awareness of service utilization can become especially critical – and UpTime Select is well designed to identify those seasonal enthusiasts who are directly impacting network and application performance.”

UpTime Select identifies over-utilized circuits, monitors application usage and auto-discovers applications that are being utilized at every site in the network, providing IT managers the critical visibility needed to properly manage and troubleshoot performance issues. The solution quickly pinpoints bandwidth hogs, those users that are responsible for excess bandwidth consumption, and the applications they are utilizing. Enterprises can thereby identify whether applications are business-critical, such as SAP or Siebel, non-work-related, such as streaming video or music file sharing, or unauthorized, such as a virus.

“I enjoy March Madness just like most people, but our customers are telling us that on a daily basis, and particularly during March Madness, that they must manage the network and application performance while being handicapped by the negative impacts of streaming audio and video from users at both headquarters locations and at remote sites,” said Larry Barker, President and CEO of Visual Networks. “Fortunately, UpTime Select can help them dramatically reduce negative impacts on performance by identifying and isolating those individuals at sites across the enterprise who are unnecessarily taxing corporate resources.”

About Visual Networks
Visual Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNWK) is a leading provider of network and application performance management solutions. The company’s technologies enable enterprises to reliably and securely manage the delivery of mission-critical applications across their infrastructures. Visual Networks' products increase application and network availability, optimize the use of bandwidth, and reduce operating costs across traditional and IP-based infrastructures. For more information, visit www.visualnetworks.com.