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Netscout Acquires Communications Businesses From Danaher

Netscout Acquires Communications Businesses From Danaher

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By eeNews Europe



On October 13, NetScout announced its acquisition of the Danaher Corp. communications businesses in a $2.6 billion deal. Businesses to be acquired in this deal are:

  • Arbor Networks, a provider of security products
  • Tektronix Communications, a service assurance and monitoring company
  • Fluke Networks, a network performance monitoring company

 

Fluke networks manufactures a variety of network monitoring and troubleshooting tools, including these OTDRs that find breaks in fiber-optic cables.

 

This acquisition will significantly increase Netscout’s product line and make it a much larger provider of network performance monitoring, service assurance, and security products. It will also enable the company to enter other markets. In fact, Fluke Networks alone will increase Netscout’s share in network-performance monitoring equipment for enterprises to more than 20%, which will further strengthen the company’s leadership position.

Because Tektronix Communications acquired Newfield Wireless in December 2013, the acquisition will make Netscout the leader in VoLTE (voice-over LTE) monitoring with a market share exceeding 50% of the global VoLTE probe-based network monitoring systems.

According to Frost & Sullivan research, Tektronix Communications is the leader in the markets for passive network monitoring and wireless protocol analyzers. With this acquisition, Netscout will have over 55% share in the passive network monitoring market and will extend its presence further to the service-provider community.

Netscout Systems jumped on the acquisition bandwagon quite a while ago, starting with Network General in 2007, then Psytechnics in 2011, Accanto Systems in 2012, and OnPath in 2013. With each acquisition, the company extended its product line and entered a new market, thus gaining greater market share and global footprint in addition to providing more value added products to customers.

Netscout has been very successful with these acquisitions, and I see a lot of synergy among various products in this merger. Will Netscout become the so called "one-stop stop" for all network performance intelligence needs of communications service providers, equipment manufactures, and enterprises? I think this is what the company has in mind and that this is where the market is heading.

This article originally appeared on EE Times Test & Measurement DesignLine

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