Bay Networks Simplifies Management Across Router Platforms with Embedded Web Server and RMON Features
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998--
--Bay Routing Services Software (BayRS(tm)) Release 12.10
provides remote configuration, monitoring and management of
LAN/WAN and Internet devices--
Bay Networks,(R) Inc. (NYSE:BAY) today announced the integration of Web-based management and RMON features across its entire line of routing platforms. The new Web server features enable access to the network from remote locations to monitor or fix problems, improve ease-of-use, and provide consistency in data presentation for easy analysis. The addition of RMON2 to Enterprise Remote Premises Routers also supports new remote monitoring and management requirements that identify the traffic flow of applications that are using the network. Platform-based alarms and events for all routing platforms, provides visibility and notification to user-defined events with alarms being sent to standard management applications for resolution. Comprehensive management of Premise Routing devices is part of Bay Networks' aggressive strategy to continuously create more value at the edge of the wide area and local area networks, as articulated today in a separate announcement detailing the Access Cornerstone of Adaptive Networking.
"The World Wide Web has become the preferred method of Service Providers and Enterprise customers for accessing corporate data over the intranet," said Kelly McGovern, vice president of Internet Telecom Marketing at Bay Networks. "Network management data on our router platforms is one more form of corporate data that we are making Web-accessible for our customers."
Bay Networks understands the router management model of ISPs and Managed Network Service Providers as well. The way these providers build, load, and monitor deployed CPE places specialized and unique management requirements on the equipment providers.
"Service Providers need tools and embedded services that are scalable and open, allowing them to deliver profitable, differentiated, secure, and measurable services to their customers," said Sally Bament, vice president of Product Management at Bay's Router and Internet Protocol Division. "That is why Bay Networks has been focusing on extending the BCC command line interface and providing valued-added standards-based tools and utilities that focus on solving the highly variable operational and implementation needs of service providers. The new BayRS features provide a simple and easy-to-use mechanism to access, display and manipulate complex static or dynamic device information."
Simplified Management Features:
-- Embedded Web Server. The embedded Web server feature complements and extends the functionality of existing SNMP-based and command line interfaces (CLI) such as the Bay Command Console (BCC). Today, Web-based management is focused on device monitoring with future development plans that address simplified Web-wizards for configuration and troubleshooting. Embedded Web management parallels the functionality of the TI/BCC command line interface. Advanced Web-based pages will leverage the BCC infrastructure, providing a combination of CLI services as well as Web-based services that makes for a functionally rich, cost effective methodology for remote configuration, monitoring and management of WAN and Internet devices.
-- RMON2 in DCM-enabled CPE. RMON2 functionality complements and extends the functionality of existing AN(R), ANH(TM), ARN(TM) RMON Data Collection Modules (DCMs) which are focused on monitoring layer-2 objects between devices on the same network. Having RMON2 internal to the CPE provides the Service Provider with access to traffic information where it is consolidated at the edge of the network. RMON2 adds insight to the RMON traffic statistics by specifying the amount and types of protocols (like HTTP) that make up that network traffic. Combining this specific application traffic knowledge with management applications like the Optivity(R) Analysis Response Time monitoring application are crucial to service providers and their customers to ensure delivery of service. |
