Mobile Management Task Force to hold first User's Group meeting at NetWorld+Interop; newly formed MMTF to finalize Mobile Management MIB Proposal, begin work on wireless MIB and form User Advisory Panel.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--The NetWorld+Interop exhibition being held Sept. 27-29 will be the site of the first Mobile Management Task Force (MMTF MMTF Multi-Modal Terminating Fax MMTF Mobile Management Task Force MMTF Military Medical Treatment Facility MMTF Maya's Music Therapy Fund ) User's Group meeting. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Swanton Room of the Omni Hotel in Atlanta. Meeting agenda items to be discussed include: finalizing the Mobile Management MIB (1) (Management Information Base) The hierarchical database used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP) to describe the particular device being monitored. MIB objects are identified using ASN.1 syntax. See SNMP, RMON, OID and ASN.1. proposal for presentation to the 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 (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ); preliminary work on a Wireless Management MIB; and the formation of a User Advisory Board. Epilogue Technology Corp., Xircom Inc. and other MMTF member companies have been working on a draft of a Mobile Management MIB proposal specifically designed to meet the needs of network administrators who support dial-up network (1) The switched telephone network regulated by government and administered by common carriers. Also called "plain old telephone system" (POTS) and "public switched telephone network" (PSTN). (2) A network that can be accessed remotely via analog modems or ISDN. users. The MMTF User Group meeting will give members of the mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings industry and interested professionals an opportunity to comment on the proposal, first announced in March, before it is submitted to the IETF for consideration as an extension to the existing Simple Network Management Protocol standard. The public meeting will also give the MMTF an opportunity to begin discussing the next MIB extension the group plans to develop, a Wireless Management MIB. Rich Watson, director of technology for Motorola's Mobile Software Products group, will make the opening remarks and present initial concepts for discussion. Once the initial concept has been submitted, interested professionals will be able to discuss the features of the MIB proposal and offer their comments via the Internet. An Internet mailing list has been established (mmtf@epilogue.com) to promote discussion of the Wireless Management MIB and other standards relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc mobile network management. A World Wide Web page has also been created to keep interested parties informed of MMTF efforts and developments in promoting new mobile management standards (http://www.epilogue.com/mmtf/). The MMTF User's Group meeting will also provide an opportunity to form a User Advisory Board to complement the Mobile Management Task Force's efforts, helping guide the MMTF's mobile management proposals. The objective of the User Advisory Board is to provide suggestions and direction to the MMTF on mobile management requirements and applications from professionals who have day-to-day experience with mobile network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. . Participation in the MMTF User Advisory Board is open to value-added resellers, MIS professionals, integrators and others who deal with mobile computing issues. "NetWorld+Interop is the ideal venue for the Mobile Management Task Force," noted David Preston, vice president and general manager of Epilogue Technology, one of the MMTF's charter member companies. "Much of NetWorld+Interop's focus is on standards-based, open-computing issues, including network management. No other trade conference brings together such a diverse group of professionals who are concerned with computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. standards." "NetWorld+Interop gives us the perfect opportunity to solicit support for the new MMTF User Advisory Board," added Jim Soriano, vice president of product development for Xircom, another MMTF charter member company. "VARs, MIS professionals and Fortune 500 network managers come to NetWorld+Interop to learn about new products and technology. We need forward-thinking professionals who are in the trenches, coping with The Coping With series of books is a series of books aimed at 11-16 year olds, written by Peter Corey and published by Scholastic Hippo. The first book, Coping with Parents, was released in 1989, and the series continued until the last book, Coping with Cash mobile computing problems, to participate in the Advisory Board and direct the MMTF's efforts." The Mobile Management Task Force was first formed in August and is being spearheaded by Epilogue Technology and Xircom. Current MMTF member companies include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Networking Division, Lannair, Motorola, National Semiconductor Corp. and Zenith Data Systems Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) was a division of Zenith founded in 1979 after Zenith acquired Heathkit, who had, at that time, recently entered the personal computer market. Zenith sold personal computers under both the Heath/Zenith and Zenith Data Systems names. . The joint aim of the group is to define and address the needs of mobile computer users, which are inherently different from those of desktop computer users. As defined by the MMTF charter, the group's aim is to "identify the administrative needs of laptop workstation users, mobile computer users, palmtop palmtop or hand-held personal computer, lightweight, small, battery-powered, general-purpose programmable computer. It typically has a miniaturized full-function, typewriterlike keyboard for input and a small, full color, liquid-crystal display users and others who need reliable access to computer networks on a sporadic basis. "The concerns of the Mobile Management Task Force will include (but are not limited to) managing on-demand access to local area networks, dial-up network access, wireless LAN communications and related administration issues unique to the needs of mobile computer users." Membership in the Mobile Management Task Force is open to computer systems manufacturers, software developers, MIS personnel and network administrators concerned with issues surrounding the administration of mobile computer users. The Mobile Management Task Force was initiated by Epilogue Technology and Xircom to promote new standards to administer laptop, palmtop and other mobile network computer users. For more information, contact the MMTF, c/o Epilogue Technology Corp., at 10501 Montgomery N.E., Suite 250, Albuquerque, N.M. 87111, or send e-mail to mmtf-request@epilogue.com to subscribe to the mailing list. CONTACT: Xircom Inc. Daphne Page, 805/376-6929 or Epilogue Technology Corp. David Preston, 505/271-9933 or Woolf Media Relations Inc. Tom Woolf, 415/508-1554 |
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