About Us

Overview

Our Company Beginnings

A vision of network clarity and product excellence

Network Instruments was launched in 1994 by a former rocket scientist and a product development specialist who recognized the need for superior network management solutions. Their shared vision was to build uniquely effective network products that integrate customer needs and feedback while raising the benchmark on quality.

In a marketplace of product acquisitions, Network Instruments made the decision to take ownership of each product decision by developing all products in-house – from concept through delivery. Centered on the company's unique distributed network architecture, each product functions as part of a seamlessly integrated holistic management solution.

Network Instruments Today

Global solutions

With an evolving set of network monitoring and management tools, and its history of engineering excellence and stability, Network Instruments continues to deliver network insight to major corporations worldwide. With a company culture that values quality, innovation, and stability, Network Instruments attracts exceptional talent to a corporate environment that promotes invention, accountability, and high performance.

Today, Network Instruments remains true to its vision as it ensures delivery of business-critical applications to medium and large-tiered enterprises across the world.

Innovative, Integrated Products

What do we make?

For over 18 years network professionals have turned to Observer, Network Instruments' flagship product that boasts powerful application analysis, expert analysis, stream reconstruction, and trending. Our most widely used product is the GigaStor solution. It stores up to 5 PB of network data for days, weeks, or months, and allows administrators to rewind, analyze, and troubleshoot any issue.

Other Network Instruments solutions include the Observer Reporting Server, providing users with high-level, aggregate, enterprise-wide views, and packet level drilldown. The Observer Infrastructure is our newest solution, delivering comprehensive infrastructure tracking with issue prevention capabilities.

As technology moves forward, Network Instruments continues to produce award-winning network products and pioneer new solutions for the limitless IT landscape of the future.

Office Locations

  • Atlanta, GA
  • Austin,TX
  • Boston, MA
  • Chicago, IL
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Dallas, TX
  • Denver, CO
  • Detroit, MI
  • Houston, TX
  • Jacksonville, FL
  • London, England
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Miami, FL
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Munich, Germany
  • New York City, NY
  • Paris, France
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Raleigh, NC
  • Salt Lake City, UT
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Toronto, ON
  • Washington, DC

Management Team

Douglas Smith
President, CEO, & Co-Founder

Dwight Benson
VP Electrical Engineering

Jenny Kray
CFO

Bruce Clark
VP of Worldwide Sales

Ian Cummins
VP of Sales, EMEA

Andriy Oliinyk
VP of Software Development

Russell Shotts
VP of Software Development

Veena Vadgama
VP of Marketing