Corporate Profile for Frontier Software Development Inc., dated July 7, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: July 7, 1995 Company name: Frontier Software Development Inc.
Address: 321 Billerica Road
Chelmsford, Mass. 01874
Telephone No.: 508/244-4000 Chief Executive Officer: Narendra Popat Chief Financial Officer: Charles Tillett Investor Relations Contact: Nathan Kalowski Business number: 508/244-4000 Home number: N/A Public Relations Contact: Nathan Kalowski Business number: 508/244-4000 Home number: N/A Trading symbol: N/A Industry: Networking Company description: Frontier Software is a technology leader in the development of the RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. standard and RMON-based distributed diagnostic systems. The company is an active member of the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force RMON committee and has been a key contributor to establishing this new management standard (RFC (Request For Comments) A document that describes the specifications for a recommended technology. Although the word "request" is in the title, if the specification is ratified, it becomes a standards document. 1271) for distributed 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. diagnostics and RMON2. Frontier's products include the NETscout family of intelligent SNMP/RMON LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network Probes and management console analysis software tools. Introduced in 1992, NETscout was the first RMON based distributed diagnostic product line available in the industry. In 1993 Frontier was the first to deliver RMON management for WANs and received Data Communication's "Hot Product" award for Network Management. At Spring Interop94, NETscout's Resource Manager was selected as a finalist for "best of show". In 1995, Frontier introduced Enterprise Probe, the industry's first RMON-based monitoring for high speed backbones such as FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , fast Ethernet and ATM. Frontier markets the NETscout family on a world wide basis through VARs, system integrators and OEMs as well as directly to major end users. Key end user customers include Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T and Lotus. Key OEMs/resellers include Digital, Cisco, UB Networks, Wellfleet and Ascom/Timeplex. Through innovation and industry partnerships Frontier has emerged as the industry leader in distributed network monitoring and diagnostics for enterprise networks. Frontier, Your RMON Headquarters CONTACT: Frontier Software Development Inc., 508/244-4000 |
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