Alcatel selects ORBacus Notify for OmniVista Telephony Management Application.Business/Technology Editors BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000 OOC OOC Out of Character (online role-playing) OOC Out-Of-Character (gaming) OOC Out Of Control OOC Optical (WDM) Overhead Channel OOC Out-Of-Conference OOC Out of Context today announced that Alcatel's next-generation OmniVista Network Management software will integrate ORBacus Notify, OOC's high-performance messaging platform. ORBacus Notify is an implementation of the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global Notification Service specification, an open publish/subscribe middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a standard, specifically designed for the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry. With features like full recovery from system failures, guaranteed delivery of events, event filtering based on event type and content, and sophisticated graphical management tools, ORBacus Notify delivers the flexibility and reliability that is required by large-scale telecommunications and other event-based applications. "ORBacus Notify provides the ideal foundation for our OmniVista Telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. Management solution," said Jean Ouss, Director of Alcatel's Network Management Division. "Thanks to ORBacus Notify, we were able to dramatically improve the versatility of our OmniVista product line. OOC has again demonstrated its technological leadership in the CORBA market, and its ongoing dedication to supply high-quality middleware solutions to the telecom industry." OmniVista is a powerful browser-based application that provides integrated management for Alcatel PBXs. It contains intuitive tools to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. quickly and efficiently, to manage networks of PBXs and to control communication costs. It also includes directory services, fault management, topology topology, branch of mathematics, formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. maps and policy management. "We are very pleased that Alcatel has chosen ORBacus Notify for their OmniVista product family," said Marc Laukien, President of OOC. "With OmniVista, Alcatel is setting new standards for telephony management applications. It makes us very proud that this innovative new product line will be based on OOC's messaging technology." About OOC: OOC (http://www.ooc.com) was founded in 1996 to provide CORBA-compliant middleware to its customers. Since then, OOC has grown into one of the leading providers of CORBA products, with offices in the US, Canada, Germany, and Australia. OOC's products are deployed world-wide and used for mission-critical applications in telecom, e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , multimedia, and other industries. About Alcatel: Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on Internet: http://www.alcatel.com |
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