InfoVista Exceeds Industry Standards for Service Management in New Benchmarking Analysis

Paris, France, Herndon, VA – March 25, 2008 – InfoVista (Euronext IFV - FR0004031649) – the leader in delivering proven solutions for proactive service assurance, announced benchmark results that simulate one of its customers’ global deployments — demonstrating  how the InfoVista solution goes above and beyond industry standards for scalability and performance.

Intent on validating recent solution advancements to its worldwide customers, InfoVista initiated the 65-day-long benchmark study in October when it announced the general availability of the latest version of its platform, VistaFoundation 4.0.  The company teamed with Sun Microsystems, a leading partner, to simulate the global deployment of a joint customer.  Using their customer’s unique service level requirements, metrics for users, number of devices, and instances across the network, InfoVista developed real-world scenarios and measured the solution’s performance, while simultaneously monitoring the end-user experience.

Key findings in this report reveal that InfoVista excels at delivering these services with the highest possible user experience.  Highlights include: 

• Validation for new foundation architecture – Including new push technology capabilities which enable proactive performance monitoring and notify users to issues in near real-time  
• Unprecedented scalability – Global, large-scale validation by supporting and monitoring greater than 1 million network resources 
• Real global network simulation and recovery – Conducted system tasks, back up and recoveries, while in best and worst case scenarios, concurrent with regular customer use and determined no degradation in end-user experience

“This benchmark solidifies InfoVista as the market leader and showcases our continued commitment to proactive service assurance, while exemplifying the power of our partnership with Sun,” said Alain Tingaud, Chairman and CEO, InfoVista.  “Moreover, the report highlights the tremendous achievements of this software, representing an 11-fold increase over prior versions, and further solidifies the unparalleled scalability and reliability that our software brings to customers.”

InfoVista has deep expertise in the service provider market and a long, successful history of meeting the needs of service provider and enterprise customers whose critical business services rely on the most reliable and scalable service assurance solutions available.  The company boasts worldwide global service provider and enterprise customers, such as Bell Canada, T-Mobile and JP Morgan Chase.