JDSU’s Network Instruments Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Second Consecutive Year

MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 23, 2015 – Network Instruments^®, a JDSU Performance Management Solution (NASDAQ: JDSU), has been positioned as a Leader in the new Gartner^® Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD).  In the Gartner, Inc. report, Network Instruments is recognized as a network performance management leader in its category for completeness of vision and ability to execute. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is considered one of the tech industry's most influential evaluations of enterprise network solutions.

Organizations, specifically network managers, require the visibility and insight NPMD solutions provide to enable staff to anticipate performance constraints before they impact service levels of critical initiatives as well as to guarantee user productivity.  As the report notes, “At an estimated $1.1 billion, the NPMD market is a fast-growing segment of the larger network management space ($1.9 billion in 2013), and overlaps slightly with aspects of the application performance monitoring (APM) space ($2.4 billion in 2013).”¹ 
 
“Measuring and reporting on the performance of the network is crucial to ensuring that performance is maintained at an acceptable level,” wrote Gartner analyst Vivek Bhalla in Technology Overview for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, September 2014. “NPMD tools are also needed to highlight opportunities to enhance business value for internal end users and external customers through improved application delivery. Finally, NPMD tools enable improved capacity management, thereby lowering capital investment for networking equipment and services.”

“We believe being named a leader by Gartner for both years of the NPMD Magic Quadrant validates our continued commitment to helping enterprise customers thrive in rapidly changing network and cloud environments,” said Bruce Clark vice president & general manager at JDSU. “Enterprise network teams rely on us to provide in-depth understanding and analytics of the user experience from the network, application, and cloud to speed up problem resolution and optimize performance.”

Network Instruments current NPMD solution is the Observer^® Performance Management Platform consisting of Observer Apex^™, Observer Management Server, Observer GigaStor^™, Observer Analyzer, Observer Infrastructure, Observer Matrix^™ and Observer nTAPs^™ products.

Disclaimer:
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

¹Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, by Gartner Analysts Vivek Bhalla, Colin Fletcher and Gary Spivek, February 10, 2015.

About Network Instruments
Network Instruments, a JDSU Performance Management Solution, is an industry leader in application and network management. It provides products that optimize performance and speed problem resolution, helping ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide. Network Instruments delivers these benefits through a seamlessly integrated line of precision-engineered software and hardware systems for exact network monitoring and analysis. For more information, visitwww.networkinstruments.com or follow on Twitter @netinst.

About JDSU
JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) innovates and collaborates with customers to build and operate the highest-performing and highest-value networks in the world. Our diverse technology portfolio also fights counterfeiting and enables high-powered commercial lasers for a range of applications. Learn more about JDSU at www.jdsu.com and follow us on JDSU Perspectives, Twitter,Facebook and LinkedIn.

Contacts:
Press:            Noël Bilodeau 408-546-4567 or noel.bilodeau@jdsu.com 
Investors:      Bill Ong 408-546-4521 or bill.ong@jdsu.com