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To: Johnny Canuck who wrote (20464)	4/12/1999 8:33:00 AM
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Cool Stuff.. ____New Partnerships, Products, For Prioritizing Traffic____ Cisco Systems and Oracle will unveil this week an interoperability initiative designed to optimize the performance of Oracle applications on Cisco-based networks. The Cisco-Oracle partnership follows a similar arrangement Cisco forged last week with PeopleSoft. The Cisco alliances are the first to make Cisco equipment aware of specific applications running over the network. Cisco is working with other application vendors to add capabilities that will enable its switches to recognize specific network traffic. While application-aware networking isn't new -- Cisco and other internetworking equipment vendors such as 3Com Corp. and Nortel have been developing products for the past year -- few systems that can analyze traffic and allocate bandwidth in real time have been available. The new switches and tools could trigger broader deployment, analysts say, allowing companies to build more-intelligent networks. This week, Alteon WebSystems Inc. will introduce a line of switches, the Alteon 700 series, that include "application- aware" management services. Meanwhile, switch vendors Arrow Point Communications, Foundry Networks, and Top Layer Networks are building networking devices that can recognize traffic coming from and going to critical business applications, and prioritize that traffic on bandwidth- constrained networks. -- Brian Riggs