Concord and ASND partner to deliver service level reporting
I wonder if this is old news..
9/17/97 - ASCEND: Concord
and Ascend partner to deliver
service level reporting for
service provider networks
SEP 17, 1997, M2 Communications - Concord
Communications and Ascend Communications today
announced a partnership that will deliver Network Health -
Ascend, Concord's best-in-class, Web-based reporting and
analysis software, on Ascend's carrier-class Frame Relay
switches. The partnership and resulting solution is the latest in
Concord's initiative to expand its Network Health reporting
and analysis capabilities to cover the broadest range of
devices and platforms.
The two companies are making the announcement in
conjunction with the launch today of Ascend's NavisXtend, a
comprehensive set of distributed network management
applications that align directly to service provider business
operations. Network Health - Ascend works with NavisXtend
Statistics Server (a Navis software application which gathers
detailed Frame Relay network usage statistics) to
automatically reflect changes in carrier services provided to
end users. Network Health - Ascend was jointly developed by
Concord and Ascend using the Navis open Application
Programming Interface (API). It is the first reporting solution
to enable service providers to easily implement service level
reporting across their entire base of users.
"We are delighted to welcome Concord Communications as
our first Navis Partners Program member. This program gives
service providers a choice of value-added applications to
extend the functionality of their core switch network
management," said Pam Dodge, Ascend's director of product
marketing, Network Management. "The Network Health
integration highlights the ease and transparency of the Navis
open API that is specifically designed to meet the third-party
and legacy application demands of our service provider
customers."
Network Health - Ascend provides automatic updates that are
key to accurate service level reporting and streamlines the
collection of data, minimizing needed bandwidth and reducing
processing load. It also imports "provisioning information"
from backbone switches detailing the level of service provided
through each channel to a customer. In addition, it
automatically generates end user service level reports that
reflect the most current service agreement between the
provider and the customer.
"We are excited by the opportunity to partner with Ascend,"
said Kevin Conklin, vice president of marketing at Concord
Communications. "Our Network Health - LAN/WAN and
Network Health - Frame Relay applications already are
empowering large end users to effectively track and project
usage of WAN and Internet services and existing resources
and determine the appropriate level of service at the best
price. The Concord/Ascend partnership balances the equation
by enabling service providers to automatically report on the
most current services delivered."
Targeted at value-added network management applications
and hardware developers, Ascend's Navis Partners Program
fosters co-development on new network management
solutions between Ascend and third party developers.
Ascend's customers benefit from the delivery of tightly
coupled, value-added network management applications.
Navis Partners, such as Concord, benefit from the increased
exposure to the rapidly growing service provider market.
Availability
Network Health - Ascend is available immediately through the
Concord Communications worldwide direct sales force, sales
agents and VARs.
About Network Health
The Network Health family of analysis and reporting solutions
includes LAN/WAN, Frame Relay, Router/Switch, Server
and Traffic Accountant modules. This family of turnkey
solutions shares the same underlying database and acclaimed
presentation formats to provide a consistent and fully
correlated "total view" of the entire IT infrastructure. The
combined suite of Network Health products offers a complete
solution, or an incremental migration path for performance
analysis and streamlined reporting of an organization's entire
client/server infrastructure-from servers to the backbone and
wide-area connections.
About Ascend Communications
Ascend Communications, Inc. develops, manufactures, and
sells wide area networking solutions for telecommunications
carriers, Internet service providers, and corporate customers
worldwide. For more information about Ascend and its
products, please visit the Ascend web site at
ascend.com, or e-mail info@ascend.com.
About Concord Communications
Concord Communications, Inc., is the leading developer of
Web-based network reporting and analysis solutions that
provides customers with the information they need to
measure the effectiveness of their IT investment. The premier
service providers, ISPs and Fortune 1000 companies turn to
Concord each morning to assess the health of their corporate
networks. Concord is a privately held company with
headquarters in Marlboro, Massachusetts. For more
information about Concord, call 1-800-851-8725 or visit
Concord's World Wide Web site at concord.com |
