Canoga Perkins Adds Value by Providing Free Network Management; Canoga Perkins' Smart Element Manager, CanogaView, has Become a No Charge Standard Feature on EdgeAccess Products.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002 Canoga Perkins is providing a valuable extra service to its users at no charge. The informative, web enabled Smart Element Manager, dubbed CanogaView, has become a standard feature for all EdgeAccess products. The network management software has begun shipping on CD with all Canoga Perkins manageable equipment. CanogaView is a powerful and useful management tool for monitoring, configuration, inventory management, remote control, power supply and fan status, error logging, reconfiguration notification, fault determination and isolation and network restoration of a Canoga Perkins fiber optic system. A Canoga Perkins equipment map is displayed in full color to visually show the status of the equipment. CanogaView is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. based and can operate under HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. . CanogaView's web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. element management system provides a graphical view of the local and, in many cases, remote equipment from a central location. CanogaView can drill down to the circuit or device level to provide detailed configuration and status information about the equipment using any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . It even displays LEDs in real time. The no charge CanogaView Smart Element Manager is a single seat license that operates under Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP. This management software can be upgraded for a nominal fee to a ten-seat license, unlimited site license or to operate under HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. or Sun Solaris UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Yearly software maintenance agreements can also be purchased. "Our large users love CanogaView because of the time it saves them and the control it gives them. Now we want to get this unique package into the hands of all users so everyone can benefit from this easy to use management software," said Jack Buhn, Canoga Perkins President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . About Canoga Perkins Canoga Perkins, a leading provider of fiber optic extension equipment with web browser enabled management tools, has offices and partnerships worldwide. Canoga Perkins seeks to offer clients the most technologically and functionally advanced transparent optical network systems available for long distance fiber optic extension and low cost CWDM (Course WDM) An optical transmission method that is used for shorter distances than dense WDM (DWDM). Also known as "wide WDM," CWDM transmits fewer channels and uses wider spacing between the channels for distances up to 60 km. Wider spacing up to 25 nm, compared to 1. systems. Using these systems, customers can increase their reliability, efficiency and new application development. For more information about Canoga Perkins, contact the company at (818) 678-3804 or visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.canoga.com. |
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