as nasdaq ntct founded 1984 ; 32 years ago 1984 as network general founder anil singhal headquarters westford massachusetts u.s. 1 area served worldwide install base key people anil singhal ceo founder michael szabados coo jean bua cfo ken boyd cio jim mcniel cmo bruce kelley jr cto revenue us 453.67 million 2014 2 number of employees 1021 2015 1 website www.netscout.com netscout systems inc. nasdaq ntct is a provider of application and network performance management products . headquartered in westford massachusetts netscout serves enterprises community government agencies and telecommunications service providers . 3 in july 2015 netscout acquired the communications business of danaher corporation including arbor networks fluke networks tektronix communications and vss monitoring . 4 contents 1 network general 2 netscout systems 3 references 3.1 citations 3.2 sources 4 external links network general edit netscout systems was founded in 1984 as network general . 1 network general developed the original network packet sniffer in 1986 ; it merged with mcafee associates in 1997 to form network associates . 5 netscout s also created the first ethernet probe in 1992 . 6 in mid 2004 network associates sold off the sniffer technologies business to silver lake partners and texas pacific group for 275 million in cash to form network general . 7 in early 2006 network general acquired fidelia technology adding the netvigil business service monitoring technology to their network and application performance analysis tools . in september 2007 network general agreed to be acquired by netscout systems for 205 million . 8 netscout systems edit in november 2007 netscout acquired their sniffer infinistream and network intelligence product lines . 5 netscout merged both product lines to allow their performance manager product to utilize both probes and infinistream technologies . 9 in april 2011 netscout acquired voice and video management company psytechnics from ipswich u.k. 10 it then acquired fox replay netscout a privately held dutch company in 2011 11 and later that year after many years of partnering and complementing solutions for network switch port aggregation netscout moved directly into competition with its partners by acquiring privately held simena networks . 12 in october 2014 netscout systems announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the communications business of science and technology company danaher corporation for about 2.6 billion . upon completion of the merger danaher s shareholders would own nearly 59.5 percent of the combined company and netscout shareholders would own the remaining stake . 13 analyst firm 451 research a technology industry syndicated research and data firm predicted in may 2015 that with the acquisition netscout will be the largest company in the network visibility management space with more than 3 000 employees and well over 1bn a year in revenue . 14 in july 2015 netscout finalized its acquisition of the communications business of danaher corporation including arbor networks security systems fluke networks rf and wi fi network troubleshooting and analytics tektronix communications traffic inspection customer experience management and analytics and vss monitoring network packet brokers . 4 in a prepared statement the company noted that the acquisition accelerates netscout s strategic progress by enabling the company to offer ... innovative service assurance and cyber security solutions and adds new employees to netscout . 15 references edit citations edit a b c louis columbus . netscout systems on the forbes america s best small companies list . forbes . ntct netscout systems inc. google finance . retrieved 2015 12 11 . netscout.com 2016 . a b yahoo business 2015 . a b denise dubie september 20 2007 . network general customers face more change ; netscout s pending acquisition of network general could cause turmoil for customers if not handled properly . network world . netscout systems inc form s 1 a received 08 06 1999 16 38 42 . paul f. roberts 16 july 2004 . sniffer relaunched as network general corp. . network world . denise dubie 20 september 2007 . netscout buying network general for 205 million . network world . netscout covers network monitoring and analysis . stephen lawson 28 march 2011 . netscout to buy psytechnics to better probe networks . cio . netscout completes acquisition of fox replay bv . october 3 2011 . rodney h. brown 22 november 2011 . netscout buys switching tech company simena . boston business journal . bloomberg 2014 . 451 research 2015 . netscout statement 2016 . sources edit renaud christian may 29 2015 . network visibility and monitoring forecast moving toward comprehensive solutions report . 451 research . retrieved 5 january 2016 . c cile daurat october 13 2014 . netscout to merge with danaher unit in 2.6 billion deal . bloomberg news . retrieved 8 december 2015 . about netscout . netscout.com . retrieved 5 january 2016 . form 10 q for netscout systems inc 5 nov 2015 quarterly report . yahoo business . retrieved 5 january 2016 . about netscout . netscout.com . retrieved 5 january 2016 . netscout systems completes acquisition of danaher s communications business . netscout.com . july 14 2015 . retrieved 15 january 2016 . external links edit netscout website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title netscout systems & oldid 733459671 categories companies based in massachusettsdeep packet capture1984 establishments in the united statescompanies listed on nasdaq navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 7 august 2016 at 23 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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