Copper Mountain and Sheer Networks Enable Broadband Providers to Boost Efficiencies in Network Operations Management and Service Provisioning.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001 Advanced Intelligence Capabilities of Copper Mountain's Broadband Networking Platform and Sheer's Distributed Management Solutions Enable Providers to Scale More Effectively Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMTN), a provider of Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) solutions for business and residential users, and Sheer Networks Sheer Networks is a networking company founded in 1999. It was headquartered in San José, California, USA. Sheer's solutions were marketed globally through direct sales, as well as through leading SI and VARs around the world. It sold Network management system. , Inc., a provider of service management solutions for large-scale Carrier Class Broadband Network Operations, today announced that Sheer's MetroCentral(TM), the core platform of the Sheer Broadband Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , is fully interoperable with Copper Mountain's CopperEdge(R) DSL concentrators. This interoperability is expected to enhance broadband providers' ability to cost-effectively manage and scale their networks as they expand their service offerings. Sheer's MetroCentral service management platform automatically inventories and maps all physical and logical network elements, providing highly cost-effective, end-to-end operational support for all aspects of service assurance, including: faults and alarms monitoring, event correlation Event Correlation is the processes involved with reducing a large number of incident alerts to a much smaller, more manageable number within automated monitoring and incident/problem management in a Support Management System. , event filtering, root-cause analysis and service impact analysis. In addition, it provisions all the network elements required to provide an end-to-end service to the customer. Sheer and Copper Mountain have integrated the MetroCentral service management platform with Copper Mountain's DSL networking platform, enabling providers using Copper Mountain solutions to accelerate service deployment, cut provisioning times, easily customize and differentiate services, and improve service maintenance. "Broadband service providers An ISP, telephone company, cable company or other carrier that offers high-speed communications to homes and businesses, typically for Internet access. Cable modems, DSL and T1 lines are the common technologies. See broadband, cable modem, DSL and T1. face two main challenges today: they must be able to efficiently and effectively provision and scale multiple, concurrent services, and they must be able to efficiently and effectively monitor and control expanding networks," said Verne Anton, Principal Analyst at Gartner. "In addition, intelligent broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. solutions must alleviate the pain experienced by service provider customers in obtaining broadband services." "Sheer's vision of intelligent operational support distributed throughout the network complements Copper Mountain's vision of intelligent service provisioning at the network's edge," said Rick Gilbert, president and chief executive officer (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. ) at Copper Mountain Networks. "Sheer's MetroCentral service management platform with intelligent network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and control agents eliminates the need for time-consuming and costly manual mapping of network elements, and its distributed architecture helps solve the inherent processing bottle-necks that occur in centralized solutions. Similarly, Copper Mountain's CopperEdge DSL networking platform with Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) service intelligence eliminates the need for time-consuming and costly manual provisioning of separate, end-to-end permanent virtual circuits for every customer and for every broadband service selected by every customer. Our companies' solutions complement each other, further increasing cost-efficiencies and scalability advantages for our customers." "Copper Mountain is a leader in developing and delivering highly cost-effective broadband networking solutions," said Sharon Barkai, president and CEO at Sheer Networks. "Copper Mountain's IP-aware CopperEdge DSL concentrators enable providers with large networks to cost-effectively provision and easily scale multiple concurrent voice and data services for tens of thousands of customers. At the same time, Sheer's MetroCentral service management platform, which is interoperable with Copper Mountain's multi-service networking platform, enables providers to streamline service provisioning and service-quality assurance. Integration of our companies' solutions enables providers to achieve end-to-end savings in operational costs and end-to-end ease of scalability." About the Copper Mountain/Sheer Networks Solution The Copper Mountain/Sheer Networks solution for intelligent broadband service provisioning and intelligent network monitoring and control integrates Copper Mountain's family of CopperEdge DSL concentrators with Sheer's MetroCentral service management platform. Equipped with IP IQ(TM), Copper Mountain's industry-leading IP service intelligence, CopperEdge DSL concentrators securely aggregate like traffic from different subscribers onto shared circuits to the wide area network, reducing providers' backhaul and upstream capital investment costs Those program costs required beyond the development phase to introduce into operational use a new capability; to procure initial, additional, or replacement equipment for operational forces; or to provide for major modifications of an existing capability. and enabling easy scalability of multiple services. Sheer's MetroCentral platform, which passed a series of interoperability tests with Copper Mountain's broadband access solutions, utilizes intelligent network monitoring and control agents distributed throughout providers' networks to see all physical and logical elements in those networks, automatically inventory and map these elements, and update network topology See topology. as it changes. The ability of the MetroCentral platform to self-discover elements throughout the network saves providers time and money by eliminating manual network mapping Network mapping or Internet mapping is the study of the physical connectivity of the Internet. It is not to be confused with the remote discovery of which operating system a computer is running, an activity more akin to hacking. . For more information about the Copper Mountain/Sheer Networks solution, see the Copper Mountain/Sheer Networks Solution Brief, "Integrated Service Provisioning and Network Surveillance," at http://www.coppermountain.com/library/partnership_briefs.html#sheer. About Sheer Networks Founded in 1999, Sheer Networks Inc. addresses fundamental network operations, administration and management issues through the use of their innovative, autonomous, agent-based software. Sheer Networks' MetroCentral(TM) platform solves the provisioning and surveillance challenges of multi-vendor, multi-million-user public access broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . MetroCentral(TM) scalability, upgradeability and turbo-charging of existing equipment increase customers' profitability and network reliability. Sheer Networks' headquarters are located at 555 N. Mathlida Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94085; phone 408/732-9404. The company's R&D facilities are based in Herzliya, Israel. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.sheernetworks.com. About Copper Mountain Networks Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMTN) manufactures DSL equipment for central office, digital loop and multi-tenant unit (MTU (1) (Maximum Transmission Unit, Maximum Transfer Unit) The largest frame size that can be transmitted over the network. For example, an Ethernet MTU is 1,500 bytes. Messages longer than the MTU must be divided into smaller frames. ) broadband networks worldwide. Its DSL solutions enable carriers and service providers to deliver cost-effective, high-performance data and voice services over existing copper telephone wiring See twisted pair. . Its CopperEdge(R) 200 DSL Concentrator is deployed in some of the world's largest public networks, and its environmentally hardened CopperEdge(R) RT (remote terminal) DSL Concentrator extends the reach of DSL to the millions of customers served by digital loop carriers (DLCs). Copper Mountain's OnPrem(TM) MTU Concentrator offers a cost-effective and scalable platform for MTU service providers. With IP IQ(TM), Copper Mountain's robust Internet Protocol (IP) service intelligence, service providers can maximize bandwidth utilization, support value-added broadband services, and scale to meet the demands of hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Copper Mountain's CopperRocket(R) CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment family and CopperCompatible(TM) program ensure that Copper Mountain DSL concentrators are interoperable with the broadest range of customer premise equipment (CPE). Customers wanting more information about Copper Mountain products or office locations worldwide can contact Richard Washbourne at 650/687-3380 or visit the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.coppermountain.com. For investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. information, call toll free 877/INFO-CMTN (463-6268) or contact us at IR@coppermountain.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Warning Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as factors which could affect the full interoperability of Sheer's MetroCentral(TM) with Copper Mountain's Copper Edge(R) DSL concentrators. Copper Mountain wishes to caution you that there are some factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements. These factors include, but are not limited to: our ability to keep pace with rapidly changing product requirements that support full interoperability; factors affecting the rate of DSL deployment by our customers; market acceptance of our products; the concentration of our revenue in a small number of customers; projections of future sales and future product development; factors and market conditions affecting the telecommunications market, the market for DSL services, CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) service providers, and economic conditions generally which are beyond Copper Mountain's ability to control. We refer you to the documents Copper Mountain files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 2000 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: Copper Mountain and all Copper Mountain product names are trademarks of Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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