NetScout to Acquire PsytechnicsNetScout to Acquire Psytechnics

Psytechnics' UC-focused Quality of Experience measurement capability was the draw.

Network management vendor NetScout announced today that plans to acquire Psytechnics, the UK-based company that made its name with systems that measure voice and video quality on IP networks.

The acquisition price was not disclosed.

NetScout president and CEO Anil Singhal stated in the announcement that acquiring Psytechnics and its flagship Experience Manager product would "accelerate our innovation to address our customers' growing Unified Communications footprint," suggesting that managing real-time traffic is becoming a pain point for many enterprises.

That's generally how it works with network management software, regardless of the specific thing being managed: It's rarely more than an afterthought when the technology is first being deployed, and third-party systems like Pystechnics' really start to gain traction only when the scale of deployments makes automated management a necessity.