AdventNet Announces Telecom Management Software Modules to Boost Existing Solutions, Offer Unprecedented Flexibility, and ROI.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2002 AdventNet, Inc., a leading provider of network, systems and applications management software, today announced a number of management software modules designed to help management solution providers deliver greater value with their existing products and solutions. With an industry-wide reduction in software and services budgets, management solution providers need to maximize the value of existing investments. The AdventNet management modules enable adding new capabilities to existing systems and solutions without costly replacements. The management software modules offer modular building Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. blocks with plug-and-play capability and include the following modules: Telecom Mediation, Fault, Configuration, SLM/Performance, Security and Provisioning Services. The modules are based on an open standards-based architecture, which easily integrates with existing solutions. They directly support J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , and other current architectures for management solutions. The benefits of adding these modules include easy integration with existing solutions, extensive standards support, increased scalability and reliability, distributed architecture, advanced capabilities in each functional area, multi-protocol support, additional OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. integration support, and much more. These benefits can be achieved with lower investment, faster ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). with smaller scale projects, lower risk, and continuity with existing solutions being used. These new products further reinforce AdventNet leadership in empowering management application developers and solution providers and enabling them to rapidly deliver sophisticated management solutions for the new generation of networks. The AdventNet management software modules reduce the time, cost and risk of delivering the carrier-class solutions customers need to grow and operate their networks. "AdventNet has always focused on delivering significant value to management software developers and solution providers," said Sekar Vembu, VP Product Strategy at AdventNet. "This offers the solution providers with a complete choice in integrating AdventNet's open, standards-based modules to fulfill their specific management needs and with a better ROI." The management software modules are available for beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the from the AdventNet web site at http://www.adventnet.com. About AdventNet AdventNet, the Management Infrastructure Company, is a successful software vendor offering two major lines of management software for the telecom and IT sectors. In the telecom sector (comprising networking/telecom equipment vendors, service providers and MSPs), it offers massively scalable, carrier-grade management application server software for provisioning and management of networking infrastructure and applications. In the IT sector (comprising enterprises, EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. middleware, J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. server and other software vendors), it offers a suite of productivity-enhancing software for end-to-end testing, instrumentation and management of applications. As a result of being highly customer focused, AdventNet has a worldwide customer base of leading equipment vendors, enterprises, service providers, application vendors, and systems integrators. AdventNet products provide ease of use, reliability, and extensive customizability powering solutions in many market segments that include applications management, optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. , broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. , storage management, web hosting, and managed services. AdventNet enables superior solutions with rapid time to market advantages. AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. with offices in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia, Canada, India, United Kingdom, France and Japan. It also has well trained partners around the globe. It has about 400 employees and more than 600 customers worldwide. For more information call 925/924-9500 or visit www.adventnet.com. Note to Editors: "AdventNet," the oval AdventNet logo, "Excellence Matters" and "The Internet Management Infrastructure Company" are trademarks of AdventNet, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders |
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