Last year (Sep 20, 2007). Network- and application-performance management vendor announced plans to acquire Network General for roughly $205 million.
The deal wascompleted in Nov 2007. The merged company has around 750 staffs with the head quarter located in Boston and San Jose. NetScout didn’t have experience in an equal size acquisition in its history from 1984 when NetScout was founded. This acquisition is obviously a big risk and huge opportunity for NetScout to enlarge their competitive advantages in the network performance management market.
Network General invested resources into mobile carrier analyzing technology which includes 3G protocol analysis and expert intelligence. NetScout has also the plan to penetrate into the the mobile carrier market, so this merge will generate a new strong player in the telecom/mobile traffic analysis market.
NetScout indicates the changes to major customers are mostly benefits. The existing customer may get double-armed nGenius product with Sniffer technology built-in for their future upgrades. But till now, the benefits did not reflect clearly except NetScout decided to release a multi-thousand-dollar product, Sniffer Application Intelligence, into free to their exist customers.
NetScout Stock (Nasdaq:NTCT) price change in last a few month during and after acquires Network General
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