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To: djane who wrote (45967)	5/4/1998 3:15:00 AM
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NetWorld+Interop: Rockwell to unveil multifunction products By Laura Kujubu InfoWorld Electric idg.net Posted at 5:04 PM PT, May 1, 1998 At next week's NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas, Rockwell Semiconductor will announce products designed to let service providers consolidate different networking technologies -- such as ATM and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) -- over an IP backbone. In doing so, the company is tapping into an important trend according to analysts. "Nobody relies on one technology anymore -- they use T1 for some uses, frame relay for others. This will cut down on the number of boxes they have to have," said Melanie Posey, an analyst at IDC, in Framingham, Mass. Specifically, the company will announce an enhanced ATM Segmentation and Reassembly (SAR) controller and a family of modules that use its ZipWire High Bit Rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL) transceiver chips. To allow the SAR to support ATM traffic moving onto an IP backbone, the company has added advanced traffic management capabilities to the product. Similarly, the company claims to have simplified the process of building a complex DSL pipe that connects into an IP network, said Raouf Halim, vice president and general manager of Rockwell's network access division. According to Rockwell company officials, the proliferation of wide area technologies -- including xDSL, T1/E1, 56Kbps analog, ATM, and Synchronous Optical Network -- is causing a need for multifunction connectivity into IP backbones. This trend is being exacerbated by the number of different IP-based services, such as voice over IP and fax over IP, that are emerging, company officials said. "This is an important trend we see ... the integration of multiple different types of services over a single IP-based network," Halim said. "This is the direction that things are moving in, because companies are splitting out their wide area network technologies more and more by application, and one technology doesn't fit all in this case," Posey agreed. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc., in Newport Beach, Calif., can be reached at rss.rockwell.com or (800) 854-8099. Laura Kujubu is a reporter at InfoWorld. Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Boston Bureau Chief, Ted Smalley Bowen Copyright c 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. InfoWorld Electric is a member of IDG.net \| SiteMap \| Search \| PageOne \| Conferences \| Reader/Ad Services \| \| Enterprise Careers \| Opinions \| Test Center \| Features \| \| Forums \| Interviews \| InfoWorld Print \| InfoQuote \|

To: djane who wrote (45967)	5/4/1998 3:17:00 AM
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VOIP products to make a splash at NetWorld+Interop show By Laura Kujubu InfoWorld Electric idg.net Voice Over IP (VOIP) will continue to be a hot topic at next week's NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas, with a spate of new product launches. Looking to carve a niche for itself in the voice/data convergence space, Siemens Business Communications Systems will reveal its road map to "The Extranet Network of the Future," which provides customers with a migration path to IP solutions -- including VOIP -- running over private intranets and the Internet. Siemens' solutions will be packaged in modules that can be added incrementally. The first phase of Siemens' IP solutions rollout will be modules, such as Enterprise Intranet Toll Bypass, in which VOIP takes place over a corporate intranet; and Enterprise IP Telephony Remote Access, in which branch offices with fewer than 200 employees can use VOIP and fax over IP by tying into a larger facility that has deployed Enterprise Intranet Toll Bypass. "We believe in the next two to three years there will be a mature [VOIP] market, and we're starting now to see implementation of real-time, communications-ready, IP-based infrastructures," said Hans Schwarz, senior vice president for Siemens' enterprise network systems group. Francois de Repentigny, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, in Mountain View, Calif., noted that although Siemens' moves are not significant ones, its overall plan is a good one. "They are really positioning themselves to provide 'complete' solutions with a whole range of products that an enterprise would need," de Repentigny said. Meanwhile, Vienna Systems will announce its products -- IPShuttle and IPCourier -- that allow standard telephones to make calls over IP. IPShuttle is an analog-to-Ethernet network peripheral that allows telephones to connect to an IP network. It operates without a PC and can handle two phone circuits. IPShuttle includes telephony features such as caller ID and call waiting. IPCourier, which is also not dependent on a PC, is a multiline Ethernet LAN phone that lets service providers offer IP telephony over IP networks, according to the company. The product can be linked to a corporate user's PC on a network, enabling it to function as a tool for call directories and other telephony functions. Both Vienna Systems products will be available this month and will cost $599. Also, Nuera Communications -- a provider of frame-relay and VOIP products and technologies -- will introduce its Access Plus F50ip, a VOIP gateway, which the company said is designed to accommodate the growth of branch offices within an enterprise. F50ip can run both VOIP and frame relay concurrently and allow network routing on a call-by-call basis. Access Plus F50ip comes standard with as many as four analog voice channels and can be upgraded to as many as 30 channels. The Access Plus F50ip is available this month and costs $4,895. Siemens Business Communications Systems Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at siemenscom.com. Vienna Systems Corp., an affiliate of Newbridge Networks Corp. in Kanata, Ontario, can be reached at viennasys.com. Nuera Communications Inc., in San Diego, can be reached at nuera.com. Laura Kujubu is a reporter for InfoWorld. Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Associate News Editor Carolyn April. Copyright c 1997 InfoWorld Publishing Company \| SiteMap \| Search \| PageOne \| Conferences \| Services \| \| Opinions \| Test Center \| Features \| \| Forums \| Interviews \| InfoWorld Print \| InfoQuote \|

To: djane who wrote (45967)	5/4/1998 3:21:00 AM
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Net giants enter VPN fray. [ASND plans] By Tim Greene Network World Fusion, 5/4/98 idg.net Las Vegas - Virtual private network (VPN) products will take center stage at Networld+Interop 98 this week as major players and start-ups alike will spotlight their latest wares for securely accessing corporate networks over the Internet. Industry giants Bay Networks, Inc., Ascend Communications, Inc. and IBM, as well as newcomers Indus River Networks, Inc. and Assured Digital, Inc. hope to steal the show with new VPN offerings. VPNs are an increasingly popular option for linking employees or business partners over the Internet. Ideally, a VPN provides security and management attributes that promise a less expensive way of linking remote users to corporate net resources than traditional private dial-in lines. According to industry ex-perts, what most vendors call a VPN consists of encrypted TCP/IP links between LANs with some sort of firewall included. There are variations on that theme, many of which will be on display at N+I. Bay Networks will announce a scaled down version of the vendor's VPN gear to let small enterprises and branch offices communicate with remote users or trading partners over the Internet. The Bay ES 1000 can support up to 50 simultaneous users dialing in to the corporate network via the Internet. The ES 1000 encrypts and decrypts traffic as it passes through the device's single T-1 link to the Internet. Larger boxes in the Bay VPN family support T-3 connections as well as T-1s. In addition, the ES 1000 sports new operating software that adds L2TP, which is encryption for setting up secure IP connections called tunnels across the Internet. ES 1000 also comes with software that can encapsulate Novell Network, Inc.'s IPX traffic in IP packets for transport across the Internet. The software also supports using Novell's Netware Directory Services to assign access rights to remote users, making it simpler to administer the VPN. The new box costs $7,000. While Bay offers a single-box designed specifically to enable VPNs, Ascend plans to roll out a VPN scheme that lashes together multiple existing products. The company's MultiVPN package defines how corporate users and ISPs can set up VPNs using Ascend dialup routers, access switches and core switches. Ascend's MultiVPN package will support remote access over the Internet and provide a way to guarantee IP service quality across service provider networks. As part of MultiVPN, Ascend will also announce IP Navigator VPN Routing, which lets service providers guarantee customer IP service levels. The company will also announce support for multiprotocol label switching, which will let users belong to multiple VPNs. Also at Interop Sources said IBM's Networking Software Division will be announcing a slew of VPN and related IP security products across the company's server and router lines. One of the keys to this will be the addition of IP Security (IPSec) for encryption and key management. IBM declined to comment on the announcement. Assured Digital will present for the first time its ADI VPN product family, which includes client software, management software and IP edge switches for sending encrypted data across the Internet. ADI gear also authenticates users trying to gain access to central sites. ADI's Automated Operation and Security (AOS) system in each device supports IPSec, ISAKMP/Oakley encryption-key management, and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) encryption. Indus River is promising to deliver IPSec packet-level au-thentication and encryption to users in its RiverWorks VPN gear within 90 days. Unique to RiverWorks is a client database of local phone rates used to find the least expensive way to connect to the Internet. RiverWorks also stores profiles of user groups for assigning access rights. Staff writer Marc Songini contributed to this story. Feedback \| Network World, Inc. \| Sponsor Index Marketplace Index \| How to Advertise \| Copyright Home \| NetFlash \| This Week \| Industry/Stocks Buyer's Guides/Tests \| Net Resources \| Opinions \| Careers Seminars & Events \| Product Demos/Info Audio Primers \| IntraNet