Cisco marks foray into network management arena with partnership, standards initiative, new products.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1995--Cisco Systems has launched its Network Aware network management initiative with four key announcements: a reseller partnership with NETSYS Technologies, Inc.; a program to establish a standard method of collecting information from disparate network devices; and the introduction of two new versions of its CiscoWorks suite of management applications. Cisco and NETSYS have signed a worldwide licensing agreement calling for Cisco to resell the entire NETSYS Enterprise/Solver* family of simulation-based network planning and problem solving software products. Cisco has launched the Common Internetworking Topology Initiative (CITI CITI Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (Columbia University) CITI Center for Information Technology Integration (University of Michigan) CITI Collaborative IRB Training Initiative ) to develop a standard format for gathering and communicating configuration data from different networked devices. In the past, conflicting collection and reporting formats have made it difficult to generate complete, accurate topology representations. The proposed standard will be submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the in early 1995. Firms that have agreed to participate include Accugraph, Cabletron, Chipcom, ISICAD, Ki Networks, Optical Data Systems, SunSoft and Remedy Corp. A new version of the CiscoWorks network management application suite now can establish a direct link to the Mosaic-based Cisco Information On-line (CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. ) service, automating the often tedious and error-prone process of collecting user diagnostic information. The new CiscoConnect capability, available with CiscoWorks 3.0 in second quarter 1995, creates an Internet link enabling CIO to gather problem data direct from the user's network. In addition, CiscoWorks, originally developed for UNIX systems, is available on personal computers for the first time. CiscoWorks for Windows, a set of Windows-based applications that runs on the HP OpenView network management platform, is a specially selected and priced subset of the original version. Cisco Systems, Inc. is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks, including routers, LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. ) link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) networks. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and in the U.S. is traded under the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on symbol CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer . CONTACT: Cisco Systems, Inc.
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