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2017 Global Stratecast Communications Business Assurance Competitive
Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award
BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH
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Contents
Background and Company Performance ..................................................................... 3
Introduction .................................................................................................... 3
Industry Challenges .......................................................................................... 3
NetScout Profile ............................................................................................... 6
Strategy Innovation and Customer Impact of NetScout .......................................... 7
Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 11
Significance of Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership ................................. 12
Understanding Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership ........................... 12
Key Benchmarking Criteria .................................................................................... 13
Strategy Innovation ........................................................................................ 13
Customer Impact ........................................................................................... 13
Best Practices Recognition: 10 Steps to Researching, Identifying, and Recognizing Best Practices ............................................................................................................. 14
The Intersection between 360-Degree Research and Best Practices Awards .................. 15
Research Methodology .................................................................................... 15
About ODAM ........................................................................................................ 16
About Stratecast .................................................................................................. 16
About Frost & Sullivan .......................................................................................... 16
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Background and Company Performance
Introduction
For one of telecom operations’ most long-standing and accomplished skills—assuring the
quality of high-speed, multi-technology, multi-service networks—the practice of service
assurance continues to evolve, improve, and meet new challenges. The last several years
has seen significant consolidation among suppliers of network and service management
solutions, assurance solutions, and test & measurement solutions. In addition, there has
been significant integration within the industry of single-function products turned to
comprehensive assurance portfolios. However, as virtual and software-driven network
architectures have emerged, and multi-domain services cross carrier and enterprise
boundaries, the end-game objectives keep moving pertaining to the limits of what needs
to be monitored and analyzed. Assurance solutions are also faced with new scalability
demands, as networks grow faster and more voluminous with traffic data.
Recently, a new wrinkle has been added to the assurance challenge. With the great
speeds and high volumes of data now in play, combined with the myriad of devices,
protocols and openness of the network, comes sophisticated threats to cybersecurity.
Networks, services that run on a network, and the businesses that operate networks,
cannot be fully assured and protected without the added component of security assurance.
Some network equipment manufacturers are reacting to this threat by including
cybersecurity solutions as part of their network assurance capability offerings. However, it
will be up to more comprehensive service assurance suppliers such as NetScout to bring
the necessary tools together for securing the entire business. It is NetScout’s approach to
this new comprehensive approach to assurance and the acquisitive strategy it has followed
to assemble it, which are the major factors for why Stratecast recognizes the company for
this award.
Industry Challenges
Performance in Context
Knowing that a call dropped at what time of day is one thing. Knowing what kind of device
originated the call, how many attempts that device made, what system that device was
communicating with, how many times those devices have tried to communicate and failed,
and what other facilities and devices were experiencing similar results, or not, is quite
another thing. It is called context.
There are many more levels of context: identity of the customer, value of the customer,
environmental conditions at the time and location of the trouble, the criticality of that
communication, the amount of traffic or congestion on that part of the network, what
other facilities might be available, and finally, what policies were in place at the time for
both the customer and the network. The list goes on.
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When vulnerabilities to cyber threats are added to the equation, even more context is
needed. The discovery of patterns of malicious intent complements solutions that protect
the network and services against natural service degradations and failures.
However, these bits of information do not form a complete picture alone. Analytics, to this
point has been good at spotting trends and forecasting when action will be required.
Analytics has not yet mastered the ability to put performance into sharply focused
context, especially for network and security assurance. This capability is required for
operations support systems to begin closing the loop on automated network and service
management along with overall business assurance.
Unified Assurance
Creating a picture of network and/or service performance at any point in time is like an
artist trying to paint a portrait of a four-year-old that won’t sit still. The more reactive and
automated networks become—especially with virtual network elements that can
theoretically be spun up and down dynamically in different locations—the more the frame
of reference for creating a performance snapshot changes.
CSPs are also shifting to a customer-centric view of performance rather than a network
view. This means CSPs need the ability to paint a picture of a customer’s experience
across services. To do this, assurance systems need to bring data together from many
disparate networks. Where each network technology stack once had its own assurance
platform, in many cases now, CSPs want a single platform.
So whether it is the convergence of network technologies, the mix of architectures, or the
myriad points of view from which a CSP sees performance at any given time, a
comprehensive view of the business is required. Such flexible viewing options are difficult
to build with a single set of solutions from a single supplier. This means service assurance
suppliers need to apply insights where they can, and partner with other innovators where
they cannot apply insights.
Looking for new partners may mean establishing relationships with non-traditional solution
suppliers as well. To this end, NetScout recently began delivering its nGenius PFS 5000
network packet broker on off-the-shelf Open Compute platforms.
Assurance for NFV and Hybrid Networks
The biggest challenge in providing multi-technology assurance today stems from the
multiple technologies within a single service. The service may traverse many transport
technologies, but also both physical and virtual networks. Following service performance
across this divide is a challenge that needs to be overcome if CSPs are to have a
successful transformation from the former to the latter.
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The industry’s efforts to advance NFV and SDN, and the pressure from Internet-based
competitors to adopt cloud and next-generation data center technologies have left CSPs
with a bifurcated management solution for end-to-end network and service management.
This bifurcation has resulted in the hybrid network. Enabling visibility across the hybrid
network remains a challenge.
On one side of the bifurcation is a virtual network infrastructure supported by the new
management framework from ETSI, known as Management and Orchestration (MANO). In
addition, there are software-driven SDN control solutions coming from the OpenDaylight
initiative, independent suppliers, and cloud management systems. On the other side are
the fixed, traditional, singularly-purposed OSS systems.
Source: Stratecast
The way forward for OSS/BSS is to support virtualized operations, but the traditional
configuration on the left hand side of this image will be in play for many years to come
and will need continued development as well, if it is to be an enabler rather than an
impediment to transformation.
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NetScout Profile
NetScout was founded in 1984 as Frontier Software. The company has evolved from a
software consulting business to a service assurance solutions provider. Today, NetScout
has installed more than one million products at more than 20,000 enterprises, including
165 CSPs, in 48 countries.
NetScout is based in Westford, Massachusetts, and has offices in the Americas, Europe
and Asia Pacific regions, including offices in the United States, India, United Kingdom,
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,
Japan, Australia, and more. The company has more than 3,000 employees.
The goal for NetScout is keeping a complex array of applications, services, software, and
hardware running in harmony and without interruption. NetScout’s application, network,
and service intelligence offerings provide comprehensive insight into the dynamic and
real-time nature of critical data, video and voice services running across modern
technology infrastructures. Capturing and analyzing network traffic at the packet level,
NetScout’s nGeniusONE platform helps shorten the time required to solve network and
application performance issues. It provides one common set of metadata for service
visibility across application tiers, network components, and diverse user devices.
NetScout also has a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine, powered by its Adaptive Service
Intelligence (ASI) technology, which provides real-time, contextual analysis of service,
network, and application performance.
In 2013, NetScout received a patent for Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) solution. In
addition to providing network and application performance management—ASI is the basis
for building and discovering new insights into operations, including security and system
planning―NetScout has products and solutions for both enterprise and CSP users. In
addition to the nGeniusONE platform and ASI technology mentioned above, the company
offers the following solutions and more:
nGeniusONE Service Assurance Platform – Provides critical insights into
network and service performance, availability and usage. It is a real-time, scalable
service assurance solution that uses ASI technology provide a carrier-grade, highly
scalable, distributed service assurance solution.
nGenius Business Analytics – NETSCOUT’s nGenius Business Analytics tool combines
real-time, smart data with powerful business analytics for the most complete picture of
service performance and customer experience, usage and behavior. It offers insights and
predictive analytics that improve customer experience and drive efficiency and productivity..
nGenius Business Analytics is built on an open framework that uses KAFKA and
REST, industry-standard APIs, to export valuable subscriber and service-level
intelligence into data lakes and business analytics platforms.
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ISNG – Mines traffic in real-time to deliver actionable data for service assurance,
cybersecurity and business intelligence applications. Provides real-time views of the
user and control planes with full visibility across physical and virtual network
environments.
Infinistream – Performs deep packet capture and analysis for real-time insights
into the performance of applications and services that flow across the IP network.
Infinistream also provides always-on monitoring of all voice, data and video traffic,
to deliver the intelligence for effective service assurance, triage and post-incident
analysis.
IRIS/GeoProbe – Provides comprehensive network monitoring and data collection
across legacy and next-generation technologies for troubleshooting business
applications and intelligence layers. The distributed architecture is optimized to
handle high-volume IP traffic with native support for IPv4 and IPv6.
Roaming and Interconnect Assurance – Delivers insight into existing and
potential carrier partnerships to maximize roaming revenue for 2G, 3G and LTE
networks. The solution does this by providing a comprehensive view of the traffic
exchanged among networks, thereby addressing both roaming and
interworking/interconnect scenarios.
TrueCall RAN Geo-analytics – Diagnoses network and device problems in real-
time to better understand demand density and usage, study traffic patterns, and
geo-locate dropped calls. It does this while minimizing drive testing to gain an end-
to-end view from the radio network to the IMS.
AdvancedDDos and Arbor Networks Spectrum – Provides a comprehensive
suite of DDoS attack protection products and services for the Enterprise, Cloud /
Hosting and Service Provider markets.
Strategy Innovation and Customer Impact of NetScout
The 2017 Stratecast Global Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award in
Communications Business Assurance is judged based on ten criteria described later in this
document. The following details a selection of comparisons from the ten criteria.
Strategy Effectiveness
The NetScout technology strategy is focused on internally developing innovative
techniques for monitoring and gathering data on network and service performance such as
ASI. However, the company also had a strong acquisition strategy and spent
approximately $3 billion on the acquisition of complementary companies, including:
Tektronix, Newfield Wireless, Arantech, Arbor Networks, Fluke Networks, and the probe
business of Accanto Systems.
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The ultimate goal was to provide the deepest, most comprehensive view of network and
service performance across any technology.
The company's strategy over the last several years was to integrate all of these assets
into a cohesive set of solutions, tied to ASI. Recently, NetScout succeeded in integrating
the Arbor Networks assets for cybersecurity into this mosaic of assurance capabilities.
Adding cybersecurity functionality signaled a rise in importance of protecting network and
services from attack and showed cyber vulnerability to be on par with the vulnerability of
poor performance. The security and assurance domains have, up to this point, been
separate. However, the synergies between service assurance and security solutions made
possible through analysis of large volumes of network traffic create new opportunities for
the two disciplines to work together to assure the availability, reliability and
responsiveness of the network and the business services.
Some competitors on the hardware side have begun incorporating cybersecurity
capabilities into their platforms; however, NetScout has positioned itself as a leader
among software suppliers by bringing security and assurance together and delivering
software centric instrumentation solutions.
Source: NetScout, Stratecast
Strategy Execution
NetScout has successfully integrated its next-generation, real-time information platform,
ISNG, and network threat analysis solution, Arbor Networks’ Spectrum. This integrated
solution allows NetScout to apply its patented ASI smart data technology to advanced
threat detection. Both systems will now use a common, shared data source for smoother
collaboration between the network and security teams.
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Threat detection is faster when network and security teams have access to both real-time
and historical network traffic from a single dashboard.
The new solution helps NetScout enter the Advance Threat market with a unique solution
that combines ASI-based real-time pervasive visibility into the wire data that traverses the
intranet with Arbors’ Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS). ATLAS global threat
intelligence data is compiled based on monitoring of more than one-third of all internet
traffic and providing near-real-time visibility into today’s emerging threats. Now, NetScout
customers can use Arbor Spectrum with ISNG to:
Leverage smart data generated by collecting, organizing and analyzing wire data that
traverses the common service delivery infrastructure in physical, virtual and cloud
environments. This smart data gives security teams pervasive visibility across users,
applications, protocols, and network flow data.
Provide security teams with superior intelligence based on the high-resolution wire
data using either dedicated or shared ISNG collectors.
Take advantage of smart data from the combined solution, across ASI and ATLAS, to
expose and extract the key potential threat activity across the network, reducing
mean time to resolution of critical security threats.
The integration of these tools demonstrated NetScout is successfully executing on its
acquisition strategy of leveraging the strengths of each company in combined NetScout
solutions.
Competitive Differentiation
NetScout’s competitors in service assurance have made important progress on similar
efforts to unite the various aspects of service assurance. None have done so while also
tightly integrating advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
NetScout’s Arbor Networks Spectrum threat analysis platform has entered the Advanced
Threat market, in large part by leveraging ISNG, the ASI-based common data platform
used by NetScout’s assurance and intelligence systems. This advancement could be the
first stage of bringing assurance and security teams and solutions much closer together. It
also will help NetScout maintain its leading role in business assurance.
Executive Team Alignment
Anil Singhal has led NetScout for 33 years. He founded the company in June 1984 and has
served as CEO since then, also becoming chairman in 2007. Since the beginning of the
company, Singhal has held to his vision of traffic-based, a.k.a wire data, instrumentation
as a core component of measuring business performance for those companies whose
network and network-based services are its business. Singhal’s executive team has an
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average of 18 years of service with the company and has been together through most of
the company’s acquisitions, helping to align and integrate the capabilities of the various
properties as well as internal development. The team is aligned on the goal of integrating
solutions to become a provider of Business Assurance.
Source: NetScout
Stakeholder Integration
When it comes to assured and secured networks, every network operator, technology
partner and channel partner is a stakeholder. The industry has a collective interest in
keeping networks secure and resilient. Network operators in particular depend on the
innovations and interoperability of NetScout solutions. They also have an interest in the
longevity and vitality of the company as the performance of their most critical
infrastructure depends on it. As for having a stake in the financial and technological
success of NetScout, the company’s technology partners also depend on NetScout
technology to maximize their own. All of them are concerned with both performance and
security. Here are a few of them:
Cisco Systems - Cisco and NetScout deliver value-added solutions to provide
network and service delivery assurance across a wide range of Cisco technologies,
including:
o nGenius Service Assurance for Cisco Unified Computing System Express
o Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP) for Cisco ISR
o Cisco Unified Communications
Citrix – The nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform provides end-to-end
Security SolutionsService Assurance (SA)
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performance and availability management for virtualized business services based
on Citrix XenApp. The platform provides unified, service-oriented views
encompassing the performance of the network infrastructure, application tiers,
Citrix virtualization components, and business services.
Microsoft – The nGenius Voice/Video Manager integrates Microsoft Lync client
endpoint data metrics through the Microsoft Lync Monitoring Server. The nGenius
solution complements Microsoft Lync monitoring services with network mid-point
and multi-vendor call detail to deliver real-time visibility into end-to-end call
performance for voice and video sessions.
VMware – The nGenius Virtual Agent, a plug-and-play virtualized nGenius Probe,
is optimized for VMware and packaged as a self-contained virtual appliance that
supports the native VMware vSphere standard switch, vSphere distributed switch
for extended environments, and the Cisco® Nexus 1000V Series Switch.
Brand Equity
In June, Forbes named NetScout as one of the 25 fastest growing technology companies
in 2017. From a customer standpoint, Vodafone extended a contract with NetScout to
monitor network performance across 13 countries in Europe. Vodafone will be using the
ISNG platform launched in September, 2016. NetScout also entered into a collaboration
deal with Bouygues Telecom for the expansion of their Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) quality
management solution, supporting the demand and growth around voice, data, and video
services in France. NetScout remains a trusted partner for both the telecom service
provider market and the wider large enterprise market.
Conclusion
Service Assurance has continued to evolve over the last decade due largely to the speed,
volume and richness of available data sources and the growing ability, through analytics,
to convert this data into actionable intelligence. The intelligence that arises from this
activity cannot be contained in scope to traditional service assurance functionality to
better understanding of network or service performance. Ultimately, the goal must be
business assurance. For this, a new dimension is required: security assurance.
Furthermore, using the same smart data for business analytics purposes can help improve
customer experience and drive efficiency and productivity.
NetScout is recognized for the strategy that has resulted in the company’s ability to
leverage a common data set to provide visibility into all four categories: Service
Assurance, Security Solutions, Business Assurance and Business Analytics. With its
strong overall performance, Stratecast is proud to bestow the 2017 Stratecast
Global Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award in the
Communications Business Assurance Market to NetScout.
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Significance of Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership
Any successful approach to achieving top-line growth must (1) take into account what
competitors are, and are not, doing; (2) meet customer demand with a comprehensive,
value-driven product or service portfolio; and (3) establish a brand that resonates deeply
with customers and stands apart from other providers. Companies must succeed in these
three areas—brand, demand, and positioning—to achieve best-practice levels in
competitive strategy.
Understanding Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership
As discussed above, driving demand, brand strength, and competitive differentiation all
play a critical role in delivering unique value to customers. This three-fold focus, however,
must ideally be complemented by an equally rigorous focus on Strategy Innovation and
Customer Impact.
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Key Benchmarking Criteria
For the Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award, Stratecast | Frost &
Sullivan analysts independently evaluated two key factors—Strategy Innovation and
Customer Impact—according to the criteria identified below.
Strategy Innovation
Criterion 1: Strategy Effectiveness
Requirement: Strategy effectively balances short-term performance needs with long-term
aspirations and vision for the company.
Criterion 2: Strategy Execution
Requirement: Adoption of best-in-class processes supports the efficient and consistent
implementation of business strategy.
Criterion 3: Competitive Differentiation
Requirement: Unique competitive advantages with regard to solution or product are
clearly articulated and well accepted within the industry.
Criterion 4: Executive Team Alignment
Requirement: The executive team is aligned along the organization’s mission, vision,
strategy, and execution.
Criterion 5: Stakeholder Integration
Requirement: Strategy reflects the needs or circumstances of all industry stakeholders,
including competitors, customers, investors, and employees.
Customer Impact
Criterion 1: Price/Performance Value
Requirement: Products or services offer the best value for the price, compared to similar
offerings in the market
Criterion 2: Customer Purchase Experience
Requirement: Customers feel like they are buying the most optimal solution that
addresses both their unique needs and their unique constraints
Criterion 3: Customer Ownership Experience
Requirement: Customers are proud to own the company’s product or service, and have a
positive experience throughout the life of the product or service
Criterion 4: Customer Service Experience
Requirement: Customer service is accessible, fast, stress-free, and of high quality
Criterion 5: Brand Equity
Requirement: Customers have a positive view of the brand and exhibit high brand loyalty
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Best Practices Recognition: 10 Steps to Researching, Identifying, and Recognizing Best Practices
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan Awards follow a 10-step process to evaluate award
candidates and assess their fit with select best practice criteria. The reputation and
integrity of the Awards are based on close adherence to this process.
STEP OBJECTIVE KEY ACTIVITIES OUTPUT
1 Monitor, target, and screen
Identify Award recipient candidates from around the globe
Conduct in-depth industry research
Identify emerging sectors Scan multiple geographies
Pipeline of candidates who potentially meet all best-practice criteria
2 Perform 360-degree research
Perform comprehensive, 360-degree research on all candidates in the pipeline
Interview thought leaders and industry practitioners
Assess candidates’ fit with best-practice criteria
Rank all candidates
Matrix positioning of all candidates’ performance relative to one another
3
Invite thought leadership in best practices
Perform in-depth examination of all candidates
Confirm best-practice criteria
Examine eligibility of all candidates
Identify any information gaps
Detailed profiles of all ranked candidates
4
Initiate research director review
Conduct an unbiased evaluation of all candidate profiles
Brainstorm ranking options Invite multiple perspectives
on candidates’ performance Update candidate profiles
Final prioritization of all eligible candidates and companion best-practice positioning paper
5
Assemble panel of industry experts
Present findings to an expert panel of industry thought leaders
Share findings Strengthen cases for
candidate eligibility Prioritize candidates
Refined list of prioritized Award candidates
6
Conduct global industry review
Build consensus on Award candidates’ eligibility
Hold global team meeting to review all candidates
Pressure-test fit with criteria Confirm inclusion of all
eligible candidates
Final list of eligible Award candidates, representing success stories worldwide
7 Perform quality check
Develop official Award consideration materials
Perform final performance benchmarking activities
Write nominations Perform quality review
High-quality, accurate, and creative presentation of nominees’ successes
8
Reconnect with panel of industry experts
Finalize the selection of the best-practice Award recipient
Review analysis with panel Build consensus Select recipient
Decision on which company performs best against all best-practice criteria
9 Communicate recognition
Inform Award recipient of Award recognition
Present Award to the CEO Inspire the organization for
continued success Celebrate the recipient’s
performance
Announcement of Award and plan for how recipient can use the Award to enhance the brand
10 Take strategic action
Upon licensing, company is able to share Award news with stakeholders and customers
Coordinate media outreach Design a marketing plan Assess Award’s role in future
strategic planning
Widespread awareness of recipient’s Award status among investors, media personnel, and employees
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The Intersection between 360-Degree Research and Best Practices Awards
Research Methodology
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan’s 360-degree research methodology represents the analytical
rigor of our research process. It offers a 360-degree-view of industry challenges, trends,
and issues by integrating all 7 of
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan's research
methodologies. Too often companies make
important growth decisions based on a
narrow understanding of their
environment, leading to errors of both
omission and commission. Successful
growth strategies are founded on a
thorough understanding of market,
technical, economic, financial, customer,
best practices, and demographic analyses.
The integration of these research
disciplines into the 360-degree research
methodology provides an evaluation
platform for benchmarking industry
participants and for identifying those
performing at best-in-class levels.
360-DEGREE RESEARCH: SEEING ORDER IN
THE CHAOS
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About ODAM
The processes and tools that communications service providers (CSPs) have utilized to run
their businesses have changed over time. More than a half-century ago, CSP network and
business management processes were manual (OAM&P). As CSPs evolved over the years,
so did the operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) that
address CSP business and network management needs. In recent years, the lines between
OSS and BSS have become less clear, with much overlap. In addition, the roles in which
OSS and BSS operate have expanded beyond traditional boundaries. As such, Stratecast
now uses the term Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) to
encompass both the traditional OSS and BSS functions and the new areas in which
business and operations management must now work together, including virtualized
networks and telecom data analysis.
About Stratecast
Stratecast collaborates with our clients to reach smart business decisions in the rapidly
evolving and hyper-competitive Information and Communications Technology markets.
Leveraging a mix of action-oriented subscription research and customized consulting
engagements, Stratecast delivers knowledge and perspective that is only attainable
through years of real-world experience in an industry where customers are collaborators;
today’s partners are tomorrow’s competitors; and agility and innovation are essential
elements for success. Contact your Stratecast Account Executive to engage our experience
to assist you in attaining your growth objectives.
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