Today's release is from the same forum as yesterday's involving NN:
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TeleManagement Forum Catalyst Team Connects Live Interoperable Equipment Types At TeleManagement World; Telecom Industry Group Broadens Commitment To Cooperation On Business Issues
PR Newswire - October 14, 1998 11:24
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DALLAS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleManagement World, Dallas - CiTR, DSC/Alcatel, Euristix, Fujitsu Network Communications, HarmonyCom, Lucent Technologies, NEC, Nortel Networks, Tellabs and UH Communications today announced the launch of the TeleManagement Forum's Connection Management Catalyst Group's Multi-Protocol and SONET Interoperability Showcase Demonstration at TeleManagement World, Dallas. For the first time, ten telecom equipment and management software vendors together with a telecom operator site have cooperated across the globe to fulfill a working solution which inter-operates seven equipment types through open interfaces developed by the group members.
"The Connection Management Catalyst Group has produced a working solution that will change the way in which operators will manage their networks. This is the first time the market has demonstrated a management solution which can embrace and interface diverse networks seamlessly to create end-to-end services," Christine Pageot-Millet, senior manager, Networks, France Telecom (CNET).
The SONET Interoperability Demonstration, using technology from Euristix, Fujitsu, Lucent, Nortel and Tellabs is a groundbreaking effort in developing a standard open software interface that will make it easier for service providers to manage their multi-vendor networks from a single monitor. The companies are focusing their joint effort on the Element Management Layer (EML) to Network Management Layer (NML) interface using CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) as the basis for the open interface. This is a practical approach that is consistent with the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) framework.
"Carriers all want open interfaces so they are not dependent on proprietary or one single interface type ", said Ken Kelly, senior analyst, Dataquest. "The usefulness of the management interface depends on how much EMS information will feed into the NMS and how many vendors participate and specify the interface," he added.
The Multi-protocol demonstration has brought together a number of key industry players to produce a truly automated, end-to-end connection management solution. Equipment vendors (Fujitsu, NEC and DSC/Alcatel), Connection Management software vendors (CiTR and Harmonycom) and a mediation software vendor (UHC) have combined real products to produce an innovative solution to address the business challenges faced today by Network Operators and Service Providers. Challenges that include rapid automated provisioning of high quality and maintainable services made up of end-to-end connections in Multi-technology, multi-vendor environments.
From a service layer application, the demonstration shows actual provisioning and maintenance of an end-to-end service across a typical Telco networking environment (ADSL/ATM access network, ATM across SDH transmission). Furthermore, this is achieved using open interfaces in an open technology environment which is demanded by today's Service Providers' highly competitive, customer focused markets.
"The catalyst projects are an integral part of TeleManagement Forum's SMART TMN initiative to drive the development and industry acceptance of real products and real solutions to the telecom industry's software needs," said Jim Warner, marketing director of TeleManagement Forum. "We are very pleased that the Connection Management team has responded so successfully to the challenge."
About the TeleManagement Forum (Formerly NMF)
The TeleManagement Forum is a non-profit, global organization serving the telecom industry. It provides a strategy and pragmatic solutions for streamlining operations in a competitive environment. TM Forum sponsors a broad range of business agreements and technical specifications that enable service providers to automate the management of communications services. Currently, the Forum has over 250 members in 30 countries including incumbent and new-entrant service providers, computing and network equipment suppliers, and software vendors. For more information visit tmforum.org.
All companies named herein are the registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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/CONTACT: Jim Warner, TeleManagement Forum, 770-642-8612 or Irene McGoey,
Euristix, (+353) 1-2804533/
/Web site: tmforum.org
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Newbridge Networks Delivers Integrated Management of Broadband Access and Backbone Technologies
Business Wire - October 13, 1998 14:08
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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--NEWBRIDGE (TSE:NNC) (NYSE:NN) TELEMANAGEMENT WORLD - Newbridge Solution Enables Deployment of Broadband Infrastructures, Extending the Reach of Advanced Services
Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN; TSE: NNC) today announced its plans to deliver industry-leading integrated network and service management for the Company's broadband remote access solutions, including broadband wireless and Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). Traditionally known for its strengths in managing multi-service backbone networks, the Siemens / Newbridge MainStreetXpress(tm) portfolio of network and service management products enables new licensed operators and established service providers to aggressively deploy broadband access infrastructures to extend the reach of existing and new advanced services. This demand has resulted from the tremendous growth of the Internet and multimedia services.
A major challenge facing service providers that has been met by the MainStreetXpress network and management portfolio is the integrated management of broadband wireless and digital subscriber line (DSL) access domains with asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and Internet Protocol (IP) backbone networks. This capability enables the end-to-end delivery of a broad range of business and residential services in a scalable, cost-effective manner.
"Newbridge Networks has historically led the industry in understanding the value that end-to-end managed solutions bring to our customers," said Alan Hawtin, Vice President, Network and Service Management, Newbridge Networks. "We are pleased to continue this tradition by tying in two new access technologies: ADSL and wireless. The Newbridge(r) managed broadband access solutions enable service providers to extend the reach of advanced multimedia services to their business and residential customers."
A key advantage of the Newbridge broadband wireless ATM solution is its ability to deliver multiple services from the same network platform, including high-speed Internet access, two-way data, voice, video and multimedia. The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, the industry's most powerful management platform, provides seamless end-to-end network and service management of broadband wireless and ADSL access over ATM, frame relay and IP backbones.
The MainStreetXpress Service Subscription Manager (SSM), which leverages the underlying MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, is a web-based service management application that supports authentication, accounting, self-subscription and user control of carrier and multimedia service selection. The SSM's integral wholesale and retail modeling of service management supports collaborative marketing of telecommunications-based services between a telecom infrastructure provider and its associated content provider partners.
Both WIC Connexus and MaxLink Communications Inc., 28GHz spectrum holders in Canada, recently selected Newbridge as their vendor of choice for the delivery and deployment of commercial LMCS networks in Canada.
MaxLink Communications is a consortium that develops and operates new local telecommunications services. It is licensed in Canada to provide a range of competitive voice and high-speed wireless services through the use of 28GHz radio frequencies.
"Network and service management was a significant driver in our decision to choose the Newbridge end-to-end broadband wireless solution," said Joel Bell, Deputy Chairman, MaxLink Communications. "This comprehensive management capability enables MaxLink to effectively use our huge amount of bandwidth and flexible service platform to quickly provide both traditional and enhanced services. It permits us to monitor and control our network efficiently, and provide quality of service commitments to our customers."
Newbridge Networks combines the benefits of ATM and wireless technologies to offer the most powerful broadband wireless access solution in the industry. This solution is used for "first mile" connectivity to cost effectively deliver a full range of data, voice, and video services from a single platform to a wide variety of customers including large and medium businesses, SOHOs (small office, home office), and single and multiple unit residential users.
With Newbridge ADSL, network service providers can offer not only business Virtual Private Network (VPN) services and Internet access, but value-added services such as premium quality IP telephony and digital video to residential and business customers. They can also extend service management functions to their content-provider partners, enabling them to partition and configure services for end users directly through the MainStreetXpress Service Subscription Manager software.
The Newbridge ADSL solution is integrated with the MainStreetXpress 36170 MultiServices Switch, and is managed by the MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager and the MainStreetXpress Service Subscription Manager.
"The Newbridge ADSL products and our collaborative development of a unique service subscription management application definitely set this solution apart from competing vendor offerings," said Rita Brown, Assistant Vice President, Marketing, BC TEL Advanced Communications. "This solution provides customers with the ability to dynamically select content provider services and enables BC TEL and content providers to work in a very flexible management model. Service subscription management has reduced our operations costs and provided greater visibility and control to BC TEL content and VPN provider partners."
Newbridge has been a long-standing, active member of the TeleManagement Forum ( a global consortium of service providers and suppliers that provides leadership to the telecom industry on the most effective ways to improve the management of public networks and services in today's competitive global market.
"End -to-end management is really the key for service providers who intend to succeed in a global, competitive market," said Elizabeth Adams, President of the TeleManagement Forum. "It is one thing to automate specific functions, but it is quite another to achieve an efficient operation, where systems are well linked and able to support fast provisioning of services and rapid response to problems. Newbridge has recognized the need for its management systems software to work with other systems to achieve this type of end-to-end automation, and it is good to see continued advancement of the Company's efforts in this area."
The Newbridge managed broadband access capabilities are being demonstrated at TeleManagement World in Dallas from October 13 to 15. Newbridge Networks designs, manufactures, markets and services networking solutions to organizations in more than 100 countries. The Company leverages its relationship with a growing family of Newbridge Affiliate companies and strategic alliances with Siemens and 3Com Corporation to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions. Newbridge customers include the world's 300 largest telecommunications service providers and more than 10,000 corporations, government organizations and other institutions. Founded in 1986, the Company employs more than 6,000 people on five continents. News and information are available at www.newbridge.com. Newbridge, logo are registered trademarks of Newbridge Networks Corporation.
MainStreetXpress is a trademark used by the Siemens / Newbridge alliance for comprehensive solutions in broadband communication. No agency relationship, partnership, or joint ownership of a legal entity is to be inferred or implied by the term alliance.
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I'm not sure why NN wasn't named in today's announcement but I'll try to find out.
As for the 36190, I've not heard that it's shipping except in trials.
Later --
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