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Friday May 8, 2:57 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: ZD COMDEX & FORUMS
Networld+Interop Las Vegas Educates the Industry to Look Beyond The Enterprise For The Future of Networking
LAS VEGAS, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziff-Davis today announced that over 55,000 networking professionals glimpsed the future of networking this week at the 5th annual NetWorld+Interop 98 Las Vegas, a Ziff-Davis event. This year's event was the largest in the history of the NetWorld+Interop series, with over 770 exhibitors in two exhibit halls, the InteropNet, the Best of Show Awards, the Net Bowl competition, the Network World Career Fair and four keynotes. The event's highly regarded Conference Program, featuring four distinct educational elements, ran throughout the week.
On the exhibit floor, thousands of networking, Internet and telecommunications professionals viewed the latest enterprise networking, Internet, intranet, and carrier/ISP technology products for the enterprise and Internet communities. Hundreds of new products were announced during the event, organized by ZD COMDEX & FORUMS, the events group of Ziff-Davis. This includes:
-- Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group unveiled a compact DSL chip,
the three-chip WildWire chip set, that allows personal computer users to
access the Internet with traditional analog or DSL service.
-- IP Metrics Software, in Start-Up City, introduced NIC Express, a load-
balancing software product for network interface cards that improves the
fault tolerance and performance of Windows NT network servers.
-- Rainbow Technologies announced the CryptoSwift II generation of secure
Web server accelerator boards that increases performance by 10-times and
is available at 50, 100, or 200 transactions-per-second on a single PCI
bus card.
-- Network Associates introduced the next generation of its Sniffer
Portable Analysis Suite, a network analyzer that troubleshoots and
optimizes all LAN and WAN network topologies, including VPNs.
-- Check Point Technologies unveiled enhancements in its flagship
FireWall-1 4.0 enterprise security suite and SecuRemote 4.0 client-side
secure remote access software, which help organizations easily deploy
intranet, remote-access and extranet VPNs.
''Our success at the show this year reaffirms our experience that NetWorld+Interop is an important venue for IT professionals to learn about industry trends and meet face-to-face with key suppliers of IT products and services,'' said A. Christian MacKenzie, vice president of marketing at Biscom, Inc.
During this week's event, the InteropNet extensively tested emerging networking technologies for reliability, effectiveness and interoperability. Regarded as the most important and influential model of multivendor, multiprotocol interoperability in the networking industry, the InteropNet utilized several emerging technologies this year, including xDSL, Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and layer-3 switching, and also featured Gigabit Ethernet and ATM cloud running simultaneously. Over 100 vendors contributed equipment and networking volunteers for this sophisticated network that connects exhibitors to each other and the Internet, and gives exhibitors and attendees the opportunity to personally experience the melding of different technologies and equipment in order to make informed decisions. Top contributors to the InteropNet included: Bay Networks Inc [NYSE:BAY - news].; Cambrian Systems Corp.; Cisco Systems Inc [Nasdaq:CSCO - news].; Diamond; Fluke Corp [NYSE:FLK - news].; FORE Systems Inc.; GlobalCenter; LAN-hopper Systems Inc.; Lucent Technologies; NetScout Systems Inc.; Platinum; 3Com Corp.; Texas Instruments; Wandel & Goltermann Inc.; and WorldCom Inc.
''FLUKE has been an InteropNet contributor for years and it's been well worth our time, both for our engineers and as exposure for the company,'' said Dan Klimke, channel support coordinator, FLUKE Corp. ''This year, the traffic we've received is not only higher than past years, but the customers are ready to buy and want the product now. Our sales team will be very busy following- up on post-show demos after this event!''
This year's expanded Conference Program included four distinct education elements: the new ISP (Internet Service Providers) Forum, provided in conjunction with Inter@ctive Week; CommUnity; Engineers Conference, provided in conjunction with IEEE; and General Conference. Top industry experts led packed tutorials and workshops that provided professionals with instruction on a wide range of topics, including Gigabit Ethernet, VPNs, IP Multicasting and xDSL. The NetWorld+Interop Conference Program represents the industry's only one-stop, continuing education resource specifically designed for the networking, Internet and telecommunications communities.
Several major events held during the week recognized key players and products at the show and allowed the industry's best and brightest to mix and mingle on the exhibit floor. At this year's annual Net Bowl trivia game, sponsored by Network World, the East Coast team of networking experts won against the West Coast team. The industry trivia game, sponsored by Network World, allowed networking and industry leaders to match wits and compete for the prestigious championship title. Monday night, Microsoft and BusinessWeek gave industry analysts an opportunity to visit innovative start-up companies and relax after a busy day at exhibits and conferences with a complimentary reception in the Start-Up City portion of the exhibit floor. On Tuesday afternoon, the Best of Show awards were held to recognize those new products that are expected to significantly advance distributed computing, networking and telecommunications. Berkeley Networks won the ''Best of the Best'' category for their Firewall Accelerator Agent which impressed judges with its ability to operate at 40-Gbits.
NetWorld+Interop, produced by ZD COMDEX & FORUMS, is the world's largest event providing networking, Internet and telecommunications professionals an unprecedented forum for education, products, services and up-to-date information to make critical purchasing decisions. The event provides these professionals with the opportunity to experience and demonstrate emerging and existing technologies in the Internet, networking and ISP market, focusing on interoperability in a multivendor, multiprotocol environment. NetWorld+Interop occurs annually in Singapore, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Atlanta, London, Paris, Sao Paolo and Sydney. For year-round information on NetWorld+Interop, visit interop.com for year-round news and information.
The next stop for NetWorld+Interop will be Atlanta, Georgia on October 19- 23, 1998. The show will feature its first ISP Pavilion, sponsored by Cisco Systems; the ISP Forum; the CommUnity conference and exhibition floor; and the show's InteropNet will test the next trend in networking by running on cable modems.
About ZD COMDEX & FORUMS
ZD COMDEX & FORUMS is the world's leading producer of information technology events, with products ranging from the IT industry's largest exhibitions to renowned technology educational programs, custom seminars and specialized vendor marketing programs. It brings together the high-profile, high-impact COMDEX and WINDOWS WORLD brands with the educational focus and depth of NetWorld+Interop, Seybold Seminars and other leading industry events. ZD COMDEX & FORUMS serves more than 5,000 exhibiting companies and two million attendees through over 50 events in 18 countries. These events have revolutionized the way computers are bought, sold and distributed. ZD COMDEX & FORUMS is the events group of Ziff-Davis.
About Ziff-Davis
Ziff-Davis is a leading integrated media and marketing company focused on computing and Internet-related technology, with principal platforms in print publishing, trade shows and conferences, online content, market research and education. The Company provides global technology companies with marketing strategies for reaching key decision-makers.
For more information on NetWorld+Interop 98 Las Vegas, visit interop.com or contact Amy Groden, ZD COMDEX & FORUMS, at 781-433-1756.
ZD COMDEX & FORUMS, the ZD COMDEX & FORUMS logo, NetWorld+Interop, Community, Interop and InteropNet are trademarks or registered trademarks owned or used under license by Ziff-Davis and may be registered in the United States and other countries. NetWorld is the registered service mark of Novell, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE: ZD COMDEX & FORUMS
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