Leading European Trade Fair Organization, KolnMesse, Upgrades to Enterasys to Drive its Innovative E-Business Communications Strategy.Business/Technology Editors DREIEICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001 Matrix E7 Ensures High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. & Dependability of KolnMesse's E-Business Services Enterasys Networks This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future events. It may contain tentative information; the content may change as the event approaches and more information becomes available. today announced that KolnMesse (Cologne Trade Fair Cologne Trade Fair are an International Exhibition Center located in Cologne, Germany. Among others the following trade fairs are held in Cologne:
KolnMesse has an aggressive program of exhibitions, comprising some 40 international events with over 38,000 exhibiting companies and two million visitors from across 170 countries. The organization utilizes the Internet as a key platform for its global communications strategy, powering their event planning Event planning is the process of planning a festival, ceremony, competition, party, or convention. Event planning includes budgeting, establishing date and alternate date (rain date), selecting and reserving the event site, acquiring permits, and coordinating transportation , sales and marketing activities. Event timetables, detailed databases on exhibitors and products, regularly updated site plans for each exhibition and media sites all reside on its website. Through its powerful software management capabilities, attendees have the ability to register online, journalists can download news releases and photos, and KolnMesse has the ability to constantly update the vast amount of data located on its site. Peter Eppel, KolnMesse's IT organization manager, commented: "A professional web presence is an absolute necessity for a company like ours, which operates world-wide. The large volume of information that we have incorporated onto our site requires a reliable, stable and high-performance IT infrastructure to support it. Enterasys' switching products are optimally suited to fulfill our increasing demands for high availability, scalability and dependability both now and well into the future." Utilizing 15 Matrix E7 switches, KolnMesse's new network infrastructure is now based on a Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. trunk backbone with eight-way 100-Base-FX full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with "We're extremely pleased that KolnMesse has chosen to use an Enterasys enterprise switching solution to seamlessly support its utilization of e-business applications. With Enterasys' Matrix E7, KolnMesse has ensured maximum system availability for its users," said Jan Bause, marketing director for Central & Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , Enterasys Networks. The Intelligent Access Platform (IAP (Internet Access Provider) See ISP. IAP - Internet Access Provider ) architecture of Enterasys' Matrix E7 provides pinpoint classification and control of network traffic using advanced features such as multi-layer filtering and differential services support (a packet flow control method). The advanced IAP architecture ensures reliable delivery of advanced applications such as e-commerce transactions and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications, as well as voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming video. For further information on Enterasys' line of Matrix products please visit http://www.enterasys.com/switching/matrix. About KolnMesse With world-class trade fairs such as "potokina", the KolnMesse (Cologne Trade Fair) is one Europe's leading trade fair centers, being the prime fair worldwide for 25 industry and business branches. KolnMesse, with 286,000 square meters of covered floor space, possesses one of the largest and most dynamic trade fair locations in the world. Two subsidiaries, the ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. KolnMesse GmbH and KolnKongress, handle trade foreign fair activities and congress activities respectively. Two further subsidiaries, KolnMesse Service GmbH and KolnMesse Ausstellungen GmbH, offer comprehensive services for exhibitors and attendees before, during and after tradeshows. The KolnMesse concentrates particularly on sectors such as communications and media, art and culture, fashion and the environment & object series. About Enterasys Networks Enterasys Networks is a new kind of company, singularly focused on providing global business communication solutions to enterprise customers. Enterasys Networks vision is to bring customers solutions that enhance their ability to communicate. With over 650 communications-linked patents, Enterasys Networks is the leading business-communications innovator. Enterasys has partnerships with many of the world's leading IT solutions providers, allowing it to build powerful and intelligent infrastructure solutions for today's Global 2000 enterprise customers. Scalability and manageability are at the core of Enterasys Networks' award-winning holistic networking infrastructure solutions. By optimizing customer solutions to support converged voice, video and data, Enterasys Networks creates solid foundations for the seamless deployment of emerging business-critical applications. Through its high touch sales model, and a global network of certified and highly trained resellers, Enterasys Networks delivers unrivalled sales and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services across the business world. For more information on Enterasys Networks products, services and partners, visit our web site at enterasys.com. Enterasys Networks' financial backers include Silver Lake Partners Silver Lake Partners is a notable American private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. It focuses its activities in the information technology industry. and Cabletron Systems (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CS). |
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