Netigy Announces Qos Content Networking Solution; Netigy/Cisco Policy Network Partnership Means Clients Gain Control of Network Assets.

Business/High-Tech Editors

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001

Netigy Corporation today announced Content Networking, a solution to congestion and application prioritization problems that have long bedeviled network administrators.

As traffic increases on company networks, the performance of mission-critical applications such as accounting and sales support can be seriously degraded. Netigy's Content Networking solution, combined with Cisco's Quality of Service (QoS) and QoS Policy Manager (QPM) is emerging as a ready solution to the problem.

"Netigy's Content Networking solution, in conjunction with Cisco's QoS and QPM, is allowing companies to regain control of their assets," said Bill Lawrence, Netigy's vice-president for global infrastructure practices. "Now that organizations are almost universally adopting complex applications to sustain their operations, they need to ensure those applications get appropriate bandwidth. Prior to Netigy and Cisco, you simply could not be comfortable your network prioritization was able to allocate resources where you needed them. Now you can."

Netigy/Cisco client Conexant serves as a case-in-point. Its Frame Relay links had become heavily congested. Mission-critical traffic from applications such as SAP competed with non-critical traffic such as bulk file transfers and casual internet browsing. Conexant decided to implement change. Its goals were to merge voice and data onto one permanent virtual circuit, thereby reducing phone charges and to prioritize SAP. The ability to merge data and voice would only be possible with robust prioritization and bandwidth management features that would ensure time-sensitive voice traffic suffered minimal delay and jitter.

Conexant used the consulting services of Netigy to help profile the SAP and voice applications, develop and test the QoS policies, then implement the policies and perform validation. "Netigy was brought in because, in truth, very few companies have the expertise in both network and application consulting like Netigy," said Randy Colvin, Conexant manager of network hardware and architecture.

Content networking: a service overview

Content networking will ultimately consist of three components; policy implementation, cacheing, and load balancing. Key today is policy implementation, which helps clients develop and deploy QoS policies to ensure network resources are provisioned among applications in a manner consistent with business priorities. Netigy accomplishes this goal by guiding the client in determining business requirements, analyzing network usage to determine how resources are currently being used, and then developing and implementing QoS policies to ensure that network resources are provisioned appropriately. The policy implementation process includes the following steps: 1) Policy needs assessment; 2) Traffic characterization; 3) Application characterization; 4) Quality of service definition; 5) Policy testing and validation; 6) Policy deployment.

About Netigy

A premier architect of eBusiness infrastructure, Netigy is setting the highest standards for 24x7 eBusiness performance. With a full lifecycle of services and an accountability-based approach, Netigy ensures the eBusiness infrastructure is prepared to handle the traffic volumes, performance requirements, and security standards necessary in the internet economy. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Netigy supports enterprise and service provider clients and is aggressively expanding into the global marketplace. More information on Netigy is available at www.netigy.com