Agilent Technologies selects InMon Corp to ensure robust network services for world-wide operations

Business Wire, June 14, 2001

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2001

InMon Corporation, the leader in traffic monitoring for high-speed switched networks based on packet based-sampling technology, announced today that it had been selected by Agilent Technologies to provide network traffic management and performance optimization solutions. Agilent Technologies has installed InMon Corp's Traffic Server throughout its world-wide operations to monitor and manage network traffic, ensuring fast and reliable network services.

Agilent Technologies, a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare, relies on an efficient and robust network infrastructure for all the day-to-day operations from business critical applications, to customer support, to internal communications. With InMon's Traffic Server, Agilent Technologies has been able to maximize performance of its global intranet and distribute new resources effectively.

InMon's Traffic Server is being used to monitor Agilent Technologies' network infrastructure of tens of thousands of switch ports. The combination of network-wide, continuous, real-time monitoring and historical data analysis of traffic patterns has enabled Agilent to resolve congestion problems, and optimize network service deployment.

About InMon Traffic Server

InMon Traffic Server provides "always-on" monitoring and management of tens of thousands of ports at 10Gbps speeds, producing real-time and historical reports of application-layer traffic flows across the whole network. It allows network managers to maximize the performance of their high-speed networks, identify causes of congestion, distribute new network resources effectively, accurately account and bill for usage, protect against security threats, set effective QoS policies to meet SLAs, and optimize peering relationships using BGP AS path data. InMon Traffic Server gives network managers the tools and information needed to optimize network performance for today's mission-critical, value-added applications and services.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. With 48,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 2000. Information about Agilent can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com.

About InMon Corporation

InMon Corp. is the leading supplier of traffic monitoring solutions for high-speed switched networks based on packet based-sampling technology. InMon Corp. is pioneering the use of statistical sampling to deliver scalable and cost effective solutions for network-wide traffic monitoring, analysis, and reporting and has multiple patents pending in this field. InMon Corp. works with leading switch vendors to enhance their networking solutions with comprehensive traffic management. For more information visit www.inmon.com.