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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (46)	5/2/1998 7:34:00 PM
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Another contract win. LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit wins university challenge Presswire - May 01, 1998 14:26 M2 PRESSWIRE-1 May 1998-LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit wins university challenge to become the cream of Manchester -- PortMaster 3 recommended over Bay Networks, Shiva, Ascend and US Robotics (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit has upgraded Manchester University's dial in user service with a PortMaster 3 remote access server. Manchester Computing, the university's computer centre, chose the PortMaster 3 after detailed comparisons of remote access servers including Bay Networks' System 5000 and Shiva's LanRover Access Switch. The PortMaster 3 supplements the two existing Annex 4000s to provide reliable high-speed access to the dial in user service. Students and staff at the University, UMIST and local teaching hospitals can now browse library catalogues, send e-mail and access the web for the cost of a local call. Manchester Computing, in partnership with UKERNA, provides a support centre for the UK's academic and research community called TICTAC (The Intermittent Connectivity Technical Advisory Committee). TICTAC surveyed five remote access servers and found that the PortMaster 3 was the best solution - providing 2 PRI (Primary Rate Interface) lines with support for K56Flex and 60 modems. TICTAC have published the comparisons, and Manchester Computing bought a PortMaster 3 based on this research. "As the number of dial-up subscribers approached 4000, it became clear that the existing facility was under strain. We know that people would be getting engaged tones more often that we would like, so it was clear that we needed to expand." said Mark O'Leary, Network Support Officer, Manchester University. "We evaluated all the main servers, and the PortMaster 3 stood out as offering the cost effective solution for both reliable high speed modem and ISDN access and RADIUS as standard. Security is obviously important for our users, and the fact that we can use RADIUS for password authentication along with our bespoke security programmes is a definite advantage. We can now offer an improved, leading edge, dial-up service." For WAN access, the PortMaster 3 is connected to JANET, the research and universities Internet link, and G-MING (Greater Manchester Information Network Group), which provides a high performance multi-service telecommunications infrastructure for the Greater Manchester educational community. The number of users is increasing rapidly at Manchester Computing, as more and more students are using the web to obtain information for their degree courses, and staff are e-mailing colleagues around the world. "As our student and staff dial-up user base continues to expand, we will need another PortMaster 3 to cope with the demand around our peak periods," said Mr O'Leary. "Today's students are increasingly computer literate and we expect a sharp increase in dial-up subscriptions with each new intake." TICTAC has also conducted research into the best way campuses can back up their main site link by using ISDN. The team's experiments relied upon the full range of routing protocols supported by the PortMaster 3, which allowed them to implement the project's aim of automatically notifying the rest of JANET when a site's link goes down. A subset of its traffic is then re-routed via an ISDN call back to a central Portmaster 3, thus keeping disruption and downtime to a minimum. TriCom supplied the PortMaster 3 that sits at the heart of the network at Manchester Computing. For more information, visit TICTAC's website at www.tictac.mcc.ac.uk. Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit, formerly Livingston Enterprises, provides reliable and secure remote access solutions for corporate networks, telcos and Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide. More than 2,200 ISPs use the company's PortMaster remote access servers, IRX and FireWall IRX and Office Router products. Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit's RADIUS software is an industry standard for providing Internet access security, and accounting and billing information. The company's ComOS operating system is also a core technology for the remote access industry. Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit is based in Pleasanton, California, with EMEA headquarters located in Sophia Antipolis, France. CONTACT: Natalie Ventre, Lucent Technologies Remote Access Business Unit Tel: +33 492 92 4848 e-mail: nventre@livingston-ent.fr WWW: livingston.com