InfoVista Enhances Network Performance Tools for Service Providers; VistaInsight for Networks for Service Providers 2.0 Provide

InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Euronext IFV - FR0004031649),
the leading service-centric performance management software company,
announced today the availability of VistaInsight(TM) for Networks for
Service Providers, version 2.0 (VIN for Service Providers 2.0), a
next-generation performance management solution that enables service
providers to effectively meet and exceed performance and service
requirements for today's advanced communications technologies
including Metro Ethernet. The key enhancements to VIN for Service
Providers 2.0 include out-of-box functionality to quickly and
cost-effectively deliver new IP VPN and Metro Ethernet services and
enhanced customer-reporting functionalities to enable tiered service
offerings.
   The adoption of Metro Ethernet - the enabling technology behind
advanced communications applications like IP VPN, Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV) and virtual private LAN Services (VPLS) - is on the
rise and Infonetics Research estimates the Metro Ethernet market will
grow 150 percent by 2007. Capitalizing on this trend, service
providers are rapidly expanding new offerings, driven by dual market
demand from enterprises that seek new connectivity services and
residential users that seek triple play applications -- voice (VoIP),
video (IPTV) and data services over a single broadband network. With
these new offerings comes a need for standards-based Ethernet
performance management solutions for service providers which provide
advanced capabilities such as Layer 2 VPN and Ethernet aggregation
management for both Enterprise and Consumer services. At the same
time, as service providers increasingly move toward a tiered approach
to service delivery, these solutions must offer value through
differentiated levels of performance and service.
   "As the demand for Ethernet services continues to grow so does our
need for sophisticated management tools that enable us to speed
time-to-market with a tiered service offering that supports
bottom-line profitability," said Denia Katsuda, Senior Manager of
Network Systems Engineering, COLT Telecom. "Based on years of
experience working with leading service providers to capitalize on the
latest technologies and market demand, InfoVista's newest solution is
an exciting development."
   A highly scalable, reliable and flexible solution, VIN for Service
Providers 2.0 offers the following new features and enhancements:

   --  IP VPN and Metro Ethernet performance management - The
        cornerstone of enhancements for VIN for Service Providers 2.0
        rests in InfoVista's accurate modeling of IP VPN services,
        Metro Ethernet services and hybrids of the two (EoMPLS). This
        provides service-centric intelligence by identifying and
        associating the appropriate relationships between service
        provider edge devices (POPs, PEs), virtual edge-to-edge
        connections (VPNs, VLANs, VPLSs, Pseudowires), traffic
        prioritization (QoS, CoS), customer edge devices (CEs) and
        customer names and their locations. End-user
        quality-of-experience service levels are linked to these
        models to provide a structured, priority-based and
        service-centric approach to performance management, in
        contrast to traditional first-come, first-served models.

   --  Customer-reporting enhancements - Preconfigured
        customer-facing Portal pages and navigation structures have
        been enhanced with workflow-oriented dashboards and reports.
        These optimized navigations have been developed to industry
        standards such as RFC 2457 and MEF 7, and honed through years
        of experience in hundreds of customer implementations. Whether
        through premium reporting or Managed Services offerings, those
        reports help business users gain insight into class-of-service
        loading and impending capacity shortages, justifying a
        business case for service upgrades.

   --  Out-of-the-box reports - Building on InfoVista's proven
        experience with in-depth network reporting on traditional and
        next generation WAN and LAN technologies, new MetroE reporting
        and enhanced QoS reporting are now included. A new catalog of
        market-ready reports enables service providers to quickly
        build competitive portfolios of tiered service offerings.

   --  Ease of integration - VIN for Service Providers 2.0 is
        engineered to easily integrate with Cisco ISC and Alcatel 5620
        SAM, the leading platforms for Metro Ethernet provisioning,
        and automates reporting configurations. InfoVista's
        object-based architecture supports rapid adjustment to
        evolving, and increasingly prevalent, requirements, enabling
        service providers to better respond to the performance
        management needs of their large enterprise customers.

   "InfoVista is delivering what carriers need to proactively monitor
next generation networks - networks that are far more brittle than
what's come before," says Dan Baker, Research Director of the
Dittberner Associates OSS/BSS KnowledgeBase. "We give InfoVista high
marks for designing in things that carriers consider important: A
strong reporting capability; flexibility to adapt new resources on the
fly; and lower cost of ownership thanks to do-it-yourself
configurations."
   With enhanced functionality and a new architecture, VIN for
Service Providers 2.0 builds on InfoVista's ten years of experience
providing performance management solutions to the world's largest
service providers and enterprises. In developing the upgrades,
InfoVista leveraged its expertise with both service provider and
enterprise constituents, as well as the work from industry bodies such
as Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).
   "Today's service providers wear two hats when managing the
performance of their network infrastructures," said Manuel Stopnicki,
chief technology officer, InfoVista. "They must at once deliver new
services with differentiated service levels and properly communicate
that performance information in a way that is digestible to enterprise
customers. With extensive experience in both service provider and
enterprise environments, InfoVista is uniquely positioned to support
both of these important objectives."
   VIN is currently generally available, and pricing varies based on
deployment size.

   About InfoVista

   InfoVista is the Service-Centric Performance Management Software
Company that assures the optimal delivery of business-critical IT
services. Driven by a uniquely adaptive and real-time technology
foundation, InfoVista solutions improve business effectiveness, reduce
operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create
competitive advantage. Eighty percent of the world's largest service
providers as ranked by Fortune(R), as well as leading Global 2000
enterprises, rely on InfoVista to enhance the business value of their
technology assets. Representative customers include ABN AMRO,
Allstream, Banques Populaires, AXA, Banque de France, Bell Canada,
British Telecom, Broadwing Communications, Cable & Wireless, Com Hem,
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deutsche Telecom, France
Telecom, Savvis Corporation, SingTel, Telefonica, and US Cellular. A
Software Magazine 500 company, InfoVista stock is traded on the NASDAQ
(IVTA) and on Eurolist by Euronext (FR0004031649). For more
information about the company, please visit www.infovista.com.