Data Communications Names Ukiah 'Hot Product' in IP Tools Category Second Year in a Row.CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999-- NetRoad APS Delivers Active, Directory-Enabled Policy Management Ukiah Software, Inc., announced today that the international technology magazine Data Communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. has named Ukiah's NetRoad Active Policy System (APS) as the Hot Product of the Year in the 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) Tools category. Last month, Data Communications selected Ukiah as one of the networking industry's top 25 hot startup companies. Policy management systems are designed to bring more intelligence to networks. NetRoad APS is the first policy management system that delivers active, directory-enabled policy management on multi-vendor enterprise and service provider networks. This is the second year in a row that Data Communications has singled out Ukiah as a Hot Product award winner, making Ukiah a member of the elite group of companies that has executed such a repeat victory. In 1998, the magazine named Ukiah's NetRoad TrafficWARE bandwidth manager Software that can prioritize communications by allowing high-priority traffic to use more available bandwidth in the network than lower-priority data. For example, real time video can be given more bandwidth than file transfers. as the winner in the same category, IP Tools. IP Tools represents the single fastest growing category in the global data communications market, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Data Communications' December 1998 market forecast, with 1999 global revenue projected to rise by 157%, to $744 million. "We're very pleased with this award. It doesn't get much better than to have the hottest product in the single fastest growing category in the global data communications market," said Gordon Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is Oregon's junior United States Senator, currently serving his second term. He is a member of the Republican Party. , Ukiah's vice-president of marketing. In its Jan. 7 issue, Data Communications reports that APS "doesn't just let net managers define policies based on information already stored in directories. It's also the first policy server with application-layer monitoring functions for automatically adjusting policies in response to changing network conditions." NetRoad Active Policy System, Ukiah's newest product, was announced this past December and will enter beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the this month. It provides a distributed, multi-vendor policy management solution, and will enable managing end-to-end quality of service. It will support a wide array of networking devices from vendors such as Cisco (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 : CSCO-news), Extreme Networks, Cabletron (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CS -news), Lucent (NYSE:LU-news) and 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS-news). NetRoad APS will also provide directory-enabled management, through integration with directory services such as Microsoft's Active Directory (NASDAQ: MSFT-news) and Novell's NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services (NASDAQ: NOVL-news). ABOUT DATA COMMUNICATIONS Data Communications is the only global networking-technology magazine written for network managers and architects who design, build, and operate multi-site, mission-critical networks. Its Web address is www.data.com. ABOUT UKIAH Ukiah Software, Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1995 and based in Campbell, Calif., is a leading developer of policy management software solutions that add intelligence to the management of networks. For more information about Ukiah and its worldwide network of channel partners, visit the Ukiah Web site at www.ukiahsoft.com. Or, send an email to or call (800) 988-5424 (in North America) or (408) 369-2890. NetRoad, NetRoad Active Policy System, NetRoad APS, NetRoad TrafficWARE, NetRoad Virtual Directory Server, NetRoad QoS Policy Server, SmartActions and Policy Enabled Networks are all trademarks of Ukiah Software Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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