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Rapid Logic's New MIBway Technology Talks to SNMP for Web-based Management Without Writing Any Code
BusinessWire, Monday, November 30, 1998 at 10:19
Breakthrough Solution for Embedded Device Management
Saves Hundreds of Development Hours, Accelerates Time-to-Market
Rapid Logic today announced a new technology that will allow
embedded application developers to immediately use all of the work
they've already put into their SNMP-based device management solution.
This new SNMP MIB inheritance technology, called MIBway(TM) and
only available from Rapid Logic as part of WebControl(TM) and
JavaControl(TM), allows manufacturers of network devices to fully
leverage all of their SNMP work directly in HTML files, JavaScript
programs, and Java applets without the use of any specialized tools,
without any compiling or re-compiling, and without any revision of
their SNMP code.
"MIBway extends the new class of management solutions Rapid Logic
has introduced to the embedded device marketplace. Through this new
technology, vendors can bring the full power of SNMP management into a
Web browser for immediate use without any additional re-engineering,"
said Mark Sigal, CEO of Rapid Logic. "A telecom switch vendor, for
example, with tens of thousands of SNMP MIBs, now has to convert each
MIB individually, which takes several months of development time,
translating into high costs and delayed time-to-market. With MIBway, a
vendor can present these MIBs as HTML or Java applets in just days."
The way MIBway works is simple: If a device's SNMP-based
management solution has 1,000 SNMP MIB variables, which isn't
uncommon, then its developers previously had to spend hundreds of
hours writing SNMP GET and SET routines for each variable. Rather than
require that they redo all of that work to make data presentable
within their Web-based management solution, MIBway leverages the code
that was already written. In essence, it frees developers from
spending hundreds, and possibly thousands, of hours of work to present
MIB object data because that data is automatically inherited with
MIBway.
Rapid Logic's embedded software solutions for Real-Time Element
Management (RTEM) in network devices include WebControl and
JavaControl, which integrate the company's OpenControl Backplane(TM)
(OCB). The OCB is the only embedded management architecture that
provides an abstraction layer, which sits between front-end
presentation (or look and feel of a device) and back-end code (or
function). This gives device vendors a safe migration path from
today's management technologies (i.e., telnet and SNMP) to tomorrow's
(i.e., Java, XML and CORBA) by extending them to the universal,
unified client that is the Web browser.
WebControl and JavaControl, which are platform independent,provide single-click integration with all major RTOSes, support all SNMP stacks for dynamic inheritance of SNMP MIB objects, and include
LiveUpgrade(TM), which is the unique ability to update a GUI remotely
and on the fly without the use of proprietary tools/compilers.
WebControl
WebControl, a visual integration tool and the OCB embedded
management architecture, provides Web-based configuration, management,
monitoring and control capabilities to network devices. The latest
version of WebControl includes support for HTTP version 1.1, drop-in
support for and dynamic inheritance of SNMP MIB objects,
JavaScript-based MD5 security, bundled SMTP e-mail alerts and built-in
data compression.
JavaControl
JavaControl provides the full power of Java for managing a
device's fundamental data units without requiring an embedded Java
Virtual Machine (JVM), expensive dedicated consoles or any Java
programming expertise. Using JavaControl's Integration Tool, a visual
Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that gives developers a
drag-and-drop development environment, device vendors can expose their
product's embedded functions to higher-level Java applets for display,
data manipulation and real-time interactive control without needing to
re-engineer or even re-compile any underlying embedded C code.
JavaControl uses a brokering scheme to manage applets and applet
communications, eliminating the need for an embedded JVM. An applet
broker handles all communication between the Web browser and the
embedded device, managing applets downloaded to the browser.
JavaControl is Java 1.1 and JavaBean(TM) compliant and includes JDK
1.1.5.
Pricing and Availability
The WebControl and JavaControl Software Development Kits are
immediately available from Rapid Logic. Base prepaid licensing
packages start at $45,000, and bundled pricing options and royalty
options are available. Customers who have purchased 90 days or less
prior to the new release will get this upgrade as part of the annual
maintenance agreement. Other customers may upgrade at a standard
discounted rate.
About Rapid Logic Inc.
Rapid Logic Inc. is a privately held software development company
providing Real-Time Element Management (RTEM) solutions focused on
solving today's device management problems while offering vendors a
migration path to tomorrow's complex network management environments.
The company's Rapid Application Development tools allow network device
vendors to create their own distributed configuration, access and
control solutions that integrate Rapid Logic's OpenControl
Backplane(TM) architecture, providing fast time-to-market and true
"write once, present anyhow" benefits.
Rapid Logic's customers include Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO); Nortel
Networks (NYSE:NT/TSE:NTL); PairGain Technologies Inc.; (NASDAQ:PAIR);and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW).
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