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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (3729)	3/17/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Claude Robitaille	Respond to of 18016

Switched routing solution rated as most cost effective Newbridge Networks Corporation NNC Shares issued 173,670,862 Mar 16 close $41.90 Tue 17 Mar 98 News Release Mr Paul Goyette reports Newbridge Networks switched routing system was judged the most cost effective among the Layer 3 switching solutions evaluated by Renaissance Worldwide, a leading information technology consultant. The Newbridge switched routing solution frees network managers to spend less time fighting fires and more time focusing on existing and emerging end-user requirements. The industry's only Multiprotocol-over-ATM (MPOA)-based solution, the Newbridge system was shown to deliver cost reductions of nearly twice that offered by traditional and non-standard-compliant networks. The results of this study reflect key operational efficiencies inherent in the Newbridge switched routing architecture. In the Newbridge solution, centralized, MPOA-based management greatly reduces the task of router configuration and re-configuration, compared to the conventional distributed routing model. Renaissance Worldwide polled Newbridge Networks and other networking vendors' reference accounts in three industries: education, health care and manufacturing. Each network had been upgraded from a legacy, router-based infrastructure. Most of the solutions evaluated were non-standards-compliant hybrids of Layer 2 switching in hardware and Layer 3 routing in software. The Newbridge system centralizes administration and control of the network in an MPOA server. Network administrators configure a single device once to implement changes to existing router policies. Consequently, administrators of the Newbridge switched routing networks evaluated by Renaissance Worldwide spent about 46% less time on reactive tasks (such as responding to SNMP alerts, analyzing existing traffic patterns and detecting duplicate network addresses) and about 40% more on proactive activities (such as network design, capacity planning and applications development) than they did before the upgrade. (c) Copyright 1998 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com