HP & HITACHI LTD. COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP POLICY-BASED NETWORK MANAGER, HP OPENVIEW POLICYXPERT.Hewlett-Packard Co. and Hitachi Ltd. Announced an agreement to jointly develop and sell an enhanced version of 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. PolicyXpert for enterprise-class and large carrier-class, IP-based networks. HP OpenView PolicyXpert enables network administrators to define Quality of Service (QoS) policies and deploy the policies on IP-based network devices, such as routers. Carrier- and ISP-provided IP-based networks increasingly are being used as the infrastructures of enterprise information and public communication systems. Mission-critical applications and services require QoS-guaranteed and highly reliable communication services. To meet these requirements, a policy server must provide the functionality for efficiently controlling the QoS of user traffic, functionality for distributing the load generated from managing many network devices, and high reliability for managing the control of network devices. Even if the number of users and network devices grows, the enhanced HP OpenView PolicyXpert will enable network administrators to maintain the QoS and reliability of IP network services while reducing the cost of user and device management. The first version of HP OpenView PolicyXpert developed by the joint collaboration is scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2000 and will provide the following features: * Functionality for linking routers to DiffServ communication services based on the standards of the IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (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 ); * Functionality for the linkage linkage In mechanical engineering, a system of solid, usually metallic, links (bars) connected to two or more other links by pin joints (hinges), sliding joints, or ball-and-socket joints to form a closed chain or a series of closed chains. of multiple HP OpenView PolicyXpert servers for distributed control; * Support of 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. (1) and Solaris(2) environments by fourth quarter; and * Japanese localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. by the fourth quarter. |
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