International Entertainment News: CA Providing Network Performance Management for NBC's Coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games

CA Providing Network Performance Management for NBC's Coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games

CA NetQoS Performance Center Helping NBC Maintain High Network and Application Performance Levels During NBC's 17-Day Broadcast

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that it has been providing network performance management software to NBC during the network's coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games, February 12-28.

"The CA NetQoS Performance Center is critical to our operations as NBC delivers the highest quality video coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games across our network," said Craig Lau, NBC's vice president of information technology. "The true value of NetQoS is that it provides us dynamic insight into the performance of the network and a way to cost-effectively manage our bandwidth needs."

The CA NetQoS Performance Center is providing capabilities such as network traffic analysis and infrastructure response time monitoring as NBC delivers live HD video coverage from Vancouver to NBC headquarters in New York for editing and publication on its website and distribution to its broadcast affiliates.

"The CA NetQoS Performance Center ensures that critical voice, data and video traffic move efficiently through complex networks, such as the one NBC has set up to broadcast the Vancouver Winter Games," said Tom Kendra, executive vice president, Enterprise Products & Solutions, CA.

About NBC Olympics

NBC has broadcast 11 Olympics, the most Olympics broadcast by any network. NBC surpassed ABC's 10 Olympics with the 2008 Beijing Games, the most watched television event in U.S. history with 215 million viewers.

The 2010 Vancouver Games mark the sixth of an unprecedented seven consecutive Olympic broadcasts by NBC Sports. The impressive streak began with the 2000 Sydney Games and continues through the 2012 London Games. NBC has broadcast eight of the last 10 Olympic Games, both summer and winter; Vancouver will mark the ninth out of the last 11.

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Press contact:

Chandra Hosek
Principal, Communications
NetQoS, a CA Company
(512) 334-3713
chandra.hosek@ca.com

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CONTACT: Chandra Hosek, Principal, Communications, NetQoS, a CA Company,
+1-512-334-3713, chandra.hosek@ca.com

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