ISR Global Telecom offers free training and 30-day trial of its Orbit TMN toolkit to potential customers.

MAITLAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1996--ISR Global Telecom, a leader in providing standards-based Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) solutions, is offering invited companies free training on the Orbit(tm) TMN developers toolkit and use of the software for a 30-day trial.

At the end of the trial the software can be returned at no obligation, or purchased at a reduced rate from list price. Remaining training classes for this year are scheduled for Oct. 8, and Nov. 5. This introduction program is limited to qualified companies who intend to purchase a TMN toolkit by the end of this year.

Orbit is a toolkit for building Network Element Managers and Q-Adapters such as TL-1 mediation to Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP). Orbit has many competitive advantages which are unique in the marketplace today. Some of these include:

-- Quick time-to-market, the ability to compile GDMO and ASN.1 MIBs, provision network elements, and build prototype applications in a fraction of the time normally required by other toolkits. -- Powerful, Open APIs for exchanging ASN.1, GDMO, and CMIS information between applications, or between applications and the persistent store. -- Standards compliance and adaptability to all the latest ITU specifications, with concurrent support of multiple MIBs at the same computer. -- Optimum Performance resulting from a unique Object-Oriented Architecture. For example, ISR created BER rather than utilizing XOM/XMF and incorporating an Object-Oriented Database rather than RDBMS. -- Persistence, the ability to "recover" the Element Manager or any managed Network Element from a hard failure.

The four-day training class has two components; network design and application development. After attending the course, C++ developer will be able to use Orbit to rapidly prototype and develop TMN applications within the 30-day trial. ISR also offers a one-day Technology Seminar dedicated to an individual company. Prior to the meeting, the interested company can supply a Network Element Management Information Base (MIB) to ISR. ISR would use Orbit to compile the company's MIB and demonstrate how Managed Objects can be automatically displayed and then instantiated with Orbit's Dynamic Graphical User Interface.

"Orbit was successfully introduced in June at SuperComm where we demonstrated the toolkit's capabilities to well over a 100 potential customers during the 2 1/2 day trade show," said Steve Barnhart, ISR's vice president of sales and marketing. "The market's enthusiasm continues to be extremely high, as our first two training classes were full. Class space is at a premium. Companies interested in participating in this program should contact ISR to be considered."

To sign up for or learn more about ISR's introduction program, contact your local account executive or ISR's marketing department at 407/875-3600.

CONTACT: ISR Global Telecom, Maitland

Marcia Bexley, 407/875-3600, ext. 322

407/425-7083