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Lucent and Novell will bundle and integrate NDS with management software for Lucent's Cajun Switch. Cisco would not provide support for NDS so Lucent will try to attract Novell customers to its routing platform. See Post 23987 on Lucent Thread for article in WSJ mentioning Cisco and Lucent.
Lucent and Novell Work Jointly to Accelerate Development and Adoption
Of Directory-Enabled Networking Standards
PR Newswire - October 19, 1998 10:56
Companies Sign Software License Agreement to Integrate Novell Directory Services With Lucent's Cajun P550
Switch
ATLANTA, NETWORLD+INTEROP SHOW, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and
Novell(R) (Nasdaq: NOVL), Inc. today announced the two companies are working together to advance the
development and adoption of directory-enabled networking standards and policy-based networking. These new
standards will help integrate network equipment, such as switches and routers, with directory services and will allow
customers to improve their network management and cost controls.
At the same time, Lucent and Novell announced the signing of a software license agreement that will bundle and
integrate Novell Directory Services(R) (NDS(TM)) with management software for Lucent's high-capacity Cajun(TM)
P550(TM) Switch, a Layer 2 switching, Layer 3 routing Ethernet platform. This capability will be delivered by Lucent
in the first half of 1999 as an enhanced policy management application.
Both Lucent (booth number 5137) and Novell (booth number 4611) will demonstrate this initial application at the
NetWorld+Interop show taking place here this week at the Georgia World Congress Center.
As active members of the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF), Lucent and Novell will collaborate to develop
solutions based on the Common Information Model (CIM) and Directory-Enabled Networks (DEN) specifications in
order to expedite the acceptance and implementation of these open standards throughout the industry.
"Directory-enabled networking brings applications and devices together in a way that simplifies network
management, and allows customers to set priorities for their network applications based on business needs," said
Karyn Mashima, vice president of enterprise networks at Lucent. "Novell Directory Services, with its open platform
support of Windows NT, UNIX and NetWare environments, is a good foundation for this. Using Novell and
Lucent's combined technology and expertise, users can reduce costs and improve network performance through the
implementation of standards-based, policy network management capabilities." "Lucent is demonstrating its
characteristic leadership in the networking industry by recognizing the value of the directory and acting to
incorporate the leading directory service, NDS, into its enterprise product line," said Chris Stone, senior vice
president, strategy and corporate development for Novell. "Businesses everywhere are deploying directory-enabled
networks to improve network manageability and performance while lowering network costs. Together, Novell and
Lucent will deliver these benefits through the integration of the directory and the physical network infrastructure
before any other vendors."
Industry Standards Support
Lucent and Novell are both committed to supporting industry standards that give customers the ability to build and
manage heterogeneous networks. As a result of today's announcement, the two companies will collaborate on new
standards proposals, specifically regarding DEN interoperability. The DEN specification includes a standard
approach to defining schema for integrating network equipment, such as switches and routers, with a directory
service. The two companies are further demonstrating their commitment to industry standards by agreeing to use the
industry standard lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) for interfacing Novell Directory Services with
Lucent's products.
Quality of Service
Leveraging the intelligence of NDS, administrators can set policies to guarantee consistent performance of the
network for the applications, users or data that are most critical to the success of their company's business. For
example, to ensure that network resources are used for the most productive activity possible, priority bandwidth can
be allocated to individual users, organizations, such as a company's call center, or to a mission-critical application,
such as a financial transaction program. Network administrators will be able to offer their internal customers
guaranteed access to critical network resources through allocations based on corporate policy; and end users will
see improved, high-quality network performance with consistent, prioritized access to key applications.
Lucent's support for these policies will be provided initially by the company's Cajun P550 Gigabit Routing Switch. A
member of Lucent's Cajun Campus family of end-to-end local area network switching solutions, the fault-tolerant
P550 is a 10/100/1000 megabits per second Ethernet backbone switch that supports the requirements of the next
wave of networking: more bandwidth, elimination of bottlenecks, better manageability and dependable multimedia
support.
This policy-based functionality is also scheduled to be available for the other members of Lucent's Cajun Campus
product line, plus additional offerings in the company's data networking enterprise portfolio, over the next 12-18
months.
About Lucent
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and
private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and
microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. More information
about Lucent Technologies is available on the company's Web site at: www.lucent.com.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. is the world's largest network software company and the leader in directory-enabled network solutions.
Novell solutions make networks more manageable and secure and reduce the total cost of ownership for
organizations of every kind and size. Novell's worldwide channel, developer, education and technical support
programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry.
For information on Novell's complete range of products and services, contact Novell's Customer Response Center at
888-321-4CRC (4272), or visit Novell's Web site at www.novell.com. Press may access Novell announcements and
company information on the World Wide Web at www.novell.com/pressroom.
NOTE: Cajun and P550 are trademarks of Lucent Technologies. NetWare, NetWorld, Novell and Novell Directory
Services are registered trademarks and NDS is a trademark of Novell, Inc.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.
/CONTACT: John H. Ricciardone of Lucent Technologies, 508-303-8885,
ext. 234, or jricciardone@lucent.com; or Katrina Larson of Novell, Inc.,
801-861-5593, or kalarson@novell.com/
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