WESTFORD, Mass. -- NetScout Systems (Nasdaq: NTCT - News), a leading provider of enterprise-wide performance management solutions and Foundry Networks® Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY - News), a leading provider of high-performance switches, routers and Web traffic management solutions, today announced they are offering an integrated network monitoring and management solution that will enhance IT managers' abilities to proactively monitor and optimize network and application performance.The two companies recently completed testing of the joint solution at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which used NetScout's new CDM(TM) Adaptor for sFlow to collect and integrate sFlow into real-time displays and reports generated by NetScout's nGenius® Performance Management System. Using NetScout's patent-pending CDM technology, the adaptor enables the statistics to be unified with other network traffic flow information within the nGenius solution, providing IT managers with efficient and highly-integrated views of network and application performance. sFlow is a proposed IETF standard for scalable traffic monitoring and measurement in a packet-switched network.The CDM Adaptor for sFlow will ship with NetScout's nGenius® Performance Manager 2.0 and nGenius® Probe Firmware 6.0. In addition to sFlow records, the nGenius solution will collect and integrate other performance metrics from Foundry switches and routers such as mini-RMON and MIBII interface statistics. NetScout's CDM technology maps performance data from many different types of sources into a consistent structure, allowing organizations to extend the value of their device data by putting it into the context of the entire network and the business services being delivered."In the absence of standards for flow-based statistics, NetScout is providing a much needed platform for recognizing the various types of information generated from infrastructure devices," said Kevin Walsh, director of the Network Performance Reference Laboratory at SDSC. "sFlow is a standard feature on Foundry Jetcore(TM) devices that reveals conversation-level details. With the use of this adaptor, IT managers will have a common platform for utilizing this information along with complementary information collected by NetScout probes and other sources.""This solution will provide IT managers a simplified and more comprehensive window for viewing their network and application performance," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager of Foundry's Enterprise business unit. "The combination of NetScout's technology with sFlow offers customers an attractive and cost-effective way to implement high-speed network and application monitoring, capacity planning, fault prevention and resolution, and service level management.""Foundry Networks is leading the adoption of sFlow as a standard. Together, we're now offering our customers even greater returns on their existing infrastructure investments," said Bruce Sweet, vice president of business development at NetScout. "CDM Adaptors are an integral part of our strategy to provide a more simplified, clutter free environment that helps IT managers cost-effectively optimize delivery of mission-critical networked applications."NetScout Systems Inc. Foundry Networks Inc.