NetQoS to Host 6th Annual Network Performance Management Symposium; NetQoS Customers, Industry Experts Gather to Discuss Evolving Network Roles, How to Better Manage the Network for Application Performance

Business Wire, April 11, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Network engineers, operations, and IT management personnel will learn the latest trends and best practices in network performance management during the 6th Annual NetQoS Symposium to be held April 18-20, 2006, in Austin, Texas.

The NetQoS Symposium will commence on Tuesday, April 18 with one day of keynote speeches from industry leaders about the strategies, technologies, and deployment considerations that are transforming the future of networking. The keynote speakers and topics include:

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.:  The New Role of the Network Engineer, Joel
                    Trammell, CEO, NetQoS Inc.

10:45 - 11:45 a.m.: What the CIO Wants from the Network, Jeanne
                    Moreno, CIO, Snap-on(R) Inc.

1:00 - 2:00 p.m.:   Bi-planar Networks: The New Frontier in Network
                    Security and Application Performance, Marc
                    Willebeek-LeMair, CTO, 3Com(R) Corp.

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.:   Moving to a 'Flat World' -- Challenges and
                    Opportunities for Networks, Chris Gahagan, Senior
                    VP, EMC Corp.

Other activities include:

Inaugural NetQoS Performance Edge awards: These awards will be given
to customers who have used NetQoS products to make great strides in
improving the delivery of networked applications and showing business
value to their organizations.

NetQoS product training: Combining lectures, demonstrations and
extensive hands-on lab time, these workshops will teach customers how
to get the most value out of the NetQoS Performance Center and its
product modules -- SuperAgent(R) for end-to-end performance
monitoring, ReporterAnalyzer(TM) for traffic analysis, and
NetVoyant(R) for device and infrastructure performance monitoring --
with sessions that focus on real use scenarios and best practices.

NetManager and NetAnalyst(R) training and Symposium certification: New
to the Symposium are these vendor-neutral workshops for network
managers, engineers and administrators, providing the tools and
knowledge to logically dissect a wide variety of real-world network
problems and minimize performance issues on the network.

The NetQoS Symposium will be held at the Barton Creek Conference Center and Resort. For more information, visit http://www.netqos.com/NS2006

About NetQoS Inc.

NetQoS software and services help large organizations improve the delivery of applications over wide area networks by enabling them to monitor application service levels, troubleshoot problems quickly, and plan for change. Representative NetQoS customers include Chevron, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Hilton Hotels, Siemens, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, NASA, and Barclays Global Investors. For more information, visit http://www.netqos.com or call 877-835-9575.

NetQoS, SuperAgent, and NetVoyant are registered trademarks and ReporterAnalyzer is a trademark of NetQoS Inc. All other trade names, trademarks, and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.