Amplify.net Inks OEM Agreement with WaveRider; iSurfRanger increases capabilities of WaveRider's Last Mile Solution products
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2000--Amplify.net, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in broadband service quality and management solutions, today announced it has signed a multi-year original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with WaveRider Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:WAVC) to supply its iSurfRanger Bandwidth & Service Management products for WaveRider's Last Mile Solution(TM) (LMS) systems.
Amplify.net's iSurfRanger Bandwidth & Service Management products will be integrated with WaveRider's LMS systems to enable advanced network management capabilities, greater access to bandwidth and more robust point-to-multi-point connections. Under the agreement, WaveRider will include Amplify.net's iSurfRanger in its product marketing activities to its network of customers.
"Amplify.net's technology enables our LMS system, to provide advanced network and bandwidth management functions to our customers," said Charles Brown, Vice President of Marketing, WaveRider Communications Inc.
The integration of Amplify.net's iSurfRanger will enable users of WaveRider's LMS family of products to:
-- Perform bandwidth usage analysis by monitoring traffic down to
single IP, MAC addresses, and/or TCP/UDP port numbers;
-- Provide subscribers with predictable access to bandwidth based
on service level agreements (SLAs);
-- Reduce operating costs by optimizing uplink bandwidth usage in
multipoint environments such as multi- tenant unit buildings
(MTUs);
-- Provide support for usage-based billing through Amplify's open
application program interface (APIs).
"WaveRider's global network and marketing activities will help us to generate greater awareness of Amplify.net's products in international markets," said Didier Cop, Vice President of Marketing for Amplify.net. "Our WaveRider partnership further establishes Amplify.net as the solution of choice for bandwidth management and quality of service for broadband wireless networks."
About Amplify.net's Advanced IP Service Engine and Subscriber
Service Management System (SSMS)
Amplify.net's SSMS builds on its patented IP Service Engine and offers a suite of ready-to-use Subscriber Service Management software modules for subscriber self registration and service selection, automatic service activation and provisioning, policies and service level agreements administration, capacity management and support for usage billing. SSMS is available on a Sun Solaris platform using an Oracle database and NT platform using an SQL database.
About WaveRider Communications Inc.
WaveRider Communications, Inc. (www.waverider.com) is a leading wireless information technology company that develops, manufactures and markets products for data communications and Wireless Internet Networking (WIN). WaveRider's high performance products operate in the license-free 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ISM frequency bands. WaveRider's products offer high-speed connections to the Internet for business and residential customers. WaveRider is traded on the NASDAQ National Market, under the symbol WAVC.
About Amplify.net, Inc. (http://www.amplifynet.com/)
Amplify.net is a broadband service quality and management solutions company that offers advanced bandwidth management and IP quality of service technologies and subscriber service management systems for DSL, Cable and Wireless networks. Amplifynet's technology boosts the revenue and profitability of service providers, enabling them to deliver and guarantee "last mile" quality of value-added IP services such as Voice over IP, Video and Audio on Demand and data rich streaming content. Amplify.net licenses its patented IP Intelligence technology to broadband equipment manufacturers as an "open system" IP Service Engine that provides the foundation for next generation IP QoS and IP Service Level Agreements. For more information, please visit Amplify.net's Website at www.amplifynet.com
CONTACT: Amplify.net
Margie Gong, 510/360-6001
mgong@amplifynet.com
or
WaveRider
Carolyn Anderson, 416/502-2978
canderson@waverider.com
or
Neale-May and Partners (for Amplify.net)
Nicholas Walsh, 650/328-5555 ext. 120
nwalsh@nealemay.com |
