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To: Sector Investor who wrote (16855)	11/13/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Respond to of 42804

Well, not finally - there is another post from Kaka on Yahoo! <<Another one for the road (maybe the most important). KK2 (Discovered my hidden typing skills, but getting tired for today.) I don't think I am disclosing any vital business secrets with this, on the contrary, it is publicity for the OSS. Nothing really new, but a good overview and some more detail on this fantastic concept. Here we go, excerpt from the Red-C product family product overview: >> "The Open Architecture One of the most important features of the Red-C OSS is its Open Architecture. The architecture can be described by the picture below. [Use your imagination here.] In one dimension it shows the layers of openness within the architecture: the CORE, the INTERFACE and the APPLICATION. In the other it shows THREE different modes of accessing the Subscriber Core to build applications within the system. The first Interface type is one that's called "NATIVE". It is one used by applications such as QoS and VPN that come as part of the baseline Red-C system. The second Interface type is called "DEDICATED". This is an interface that is built specifically to run with existing applications that already have an Application Program Interface (API) defined. It may also be one that is developed in partnership with vendors who offer some value-added application such as Firewalls or Billing. The third type, the "OPEN" interface, offers exciting potential for the provider to offer new services that are unique to his business. It presents an opportunity to ensure that the Red-C will provide viability as service offerings change within ISPs and telcos. It is a set of APIs that Nbase-Xyplex will make available for the Red-C product. The APIs support both applications that can be co-resident on the Red-C system and those that may reside externally on special purpose servers. The Red-C system is based on a LINUX multiprocessor Intel architecture. The APIs for co-resident applications are interfaces that can provide both subscriber configuration data and access to hardware configuration, status and statistics. These applications can be linked with the Red-C Linux kernel to tie the application into the Red-C System. For external applications, there is a protocol available that provides the same access for servers on the network. With the myriad of excellent applications that are being developed in the Linux community, a provider has the opportunity to uniquely configure its offerings by selecting and integrating applications into the Red-C. Thus, the OSS builds in scaleability in the important application space to add value and to help the providers business to scale in the profitability space"