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To: Tim Luke who wrote (77843)	12/13/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: Mavrick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90042

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To: Tim Luke who wrote (77843)	12/13/1999 8:46:00 AM
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CS news SPECTRUM Expands Digital Cable Management Solution Multiple System Operator Management Suite Showcased at the Western Show `99 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--The Western Show-- (booth # 4409)--SPECTRUM, the leader in scalable, multivendor network management, today announced enhancements to its Digital Cable Management Solution. SPECTRUM's standards-based solution helps multiple system operators (MSOs) centralize network operations and guarantee service availability at competitive prices. By providing advanced fault isolation and root cause analysis for IP Internet services, MSOs can ensure the highest quality IP digital broadband service offerings. ``Keeping pace with the explosive success of new broadband-enabled services is a tremendous challenge for IT departments throughout the cable industry,' said Michael Skubisz, SPECTRUM's president. ``SPECTRUM is the only management solution with the advanced technology to meet the complex service requirements of MSOs, as well as the scalablity to match the anticipated growth projected for this industry.' The SPECTRUM Digital Cable Management Solution The SPECTRUM Digital Cable Management Solution offers MSOs the industry's most comprehensive, multivendor, multitechnology management for Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)-based cable networks, including: Cable modems from Motorola and Nortel Set-top-boxes from Scientific Atlanta and General Instruments Broadband router/cable modem termination systems (CMTS) for Cabletron SmartSwitch Routers and Cisco's Universal Broadband Routers Optical and ATM backbones from market leaders including Cabletron, Cisco, Nortel, Marconi and Lucent SPECTRUM's unrivaled scalability is ideal for an industry that encompasses millions of customer locations nationwide. With its modular design and ability to support proprietary and standards-based management protocols, SPECTRUM is the only network management suite positioned for managing cable industry networks of all sizes. Additional functionality of the SPECTRUM Digital Cable Management Solution includes: Service level management with web-based customer views Application and server management Asset and inventory reporting Configuration management Accounting for capacity planning In a related press release, SPECTRUM announced that, as part of the Western Show `99, it is managing the network infrastructure at this year's CableNET '99(TM). SPECTRUM is demonstrating how the Digital Cable Management Solution allows MSOs to manage, control and monitor a multivendor cable access, distribution and core network infrastructure (see press release dated December 10, 1999). In a recent NetworkWorld survey on network management, SPECTRUM was voted number one in customer satisfaction over products from Hewlett Packard, Tivoli and Computer Associates in four decision-making categories: Scalability, Integration, Management Capabilities and Overall Value. According to the survey, SPECTRUM leads in overall customer satisfaction and is the management software most would purchase again.