Sitara Networks and Siemens Form HiPath Alliance.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Siemens Invests in Quality of Service (QoS) Leader; Companies to Enter Worldwide Marketing, Distribution, and Technical Development Programs for QoSWORKS Platform Sitara Networks, Inc., the leading provider of solutions that intelligently integrate applications and networks for enterprises, ASPs and service providers, today announced it has formed an alliance with Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group. Under the terms of the contract, Siemens Information and Communication Networks will complement its HiPath Product Portfolio. As a Sitara Premium Partner, Siemens has worldwide distribution rights for QoSWORKS, Sitara's QoS product. The contract also calls for the companies to establish joint marketing programs. Through these joint marketing programs, Siemens will offer QoSWORKS and will work on follow-on technical development for an open architecture of VoIP applications and for integration in the Siemens HiPath convergence family. This alliance is expected to significantly advance VoIP adoption through the pairing of VoIP leader Siemens and Quality of Service (QoS) enabler Sitara. Sitara is working with the Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group, a leading global provider of integrated voice and data networks with a comprehensive portfolio of IP-based products and solutions for enterprises, carriers and service providers. The Group has many years of experience in consulting, planning, installing and operating converged networks The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. . Siemens selected Sitara's QoSWORKS after extensive testing and analysis demonstrated the product line and underlying QoS technology complement Siemens VoIP products and applications. "Our alliance with Sitara will allow Siemens to complement our HiPath product portfolio and to offer an unparalleled QoS platform to our customers worldwide," said Bernd Kuhlin, president, HiPath Corporate Solutions at Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group. "Together, we will work to develop a vital, QoS-enabled open networking architecture for mission critical business applications including VoIP on Siemens' and third-party platforms," he added. "Siemens is a recognized market leader across a spectrum of communications and networking applications that open up myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. opportunities for businesses," said Malik Noun 1. malik - the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent; "maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords" Khan khan Historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe. Early on a distinction was made between the title of khan and that of khakan, or “great khan.” Later the term khan was adopted by the Seljuq and Khwarezm-Shah dynasties as a title for the highest , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Sitara Networks. "The addition of Sitara's technology to Siemens offerings will help accelerate the development and adoption of a new generation of intelligent applications that enjoy the speed, reliability, ease of use, and ever-presence associated with IP networks." The Siemens investment is part of a just-completed funding round of $20 million, raised from investors including MFS Investment Management MFS Investment Management, formerly Massachusetts Financial Services, is a Boston, Massachusetts-based financial services firm. In its publicity, MFS claims to have invented the mutual fund. The current chair of the company is Robert Pozen. , Van Wagoner The Van Wagoner was an American automobile manufactured between 1899 and 1900. Advertised as being "built on a simple plan that does away with several levers and push buttons", the car was built in Syracuse, New York, and could supposedly be "controlled with one hand". Capital Management, Essex High Technology Fund L.P., Deutsche Banc Alex Brown Alex Brown may refer to:
About HiPath, the Enterprise Convergence Architecture Siemens' HiPath enterprise convergence architecture, introduced earlier this year, takes customers into the new world of multimedia IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. by offering a "real world" strategy on how to get there - one that enables customers to deploy technology at their own pace and optimally preserves their current infrastructure and application investments. With the HiPath architecture, Siemens can deliver industry-leading, advanced applications, including those within the HiPath ProCenter portfolio and HiPath Xpressions(TM) unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , across both circuit-switched and IP platforms. In addition, HiPath features a full portfolio of leading-edge IP communications solutions available today. About the QoSWORKS Product Family Sitara QoSWORKS is an integrated QoS platform that enables enterprises, ASPs and service providers to deploy new e-business applications while protecting critical application performance and improving network efficiency. It is the industry's first complete QoS solution containing multiple tools that deploy automatically to manage a wide range of traffic types. As an integrated solution built on industry-standard open platforms, QoSWORKS is highly cost-effective and easily scales to incorporate future QoS tools and techniques. QoSWORKS also serves as the foundation technology for QoSArray, Sitara's QoS solution designed specifically for the high traffic, mission-critical network and application demands of large enterprises and service providers. About Sitara Networks Sitara Networks is making networks smarter by intelligently integrating applications and networks. Sitara Networks enables enterprises, ASPs, and service providers to deploy e-business applications on existing networks while improving application performance and network efficiency. These leading edge network solutions are delivered with the world's first QoS (Quality of Service) appliance, QoSWORKS. Founded by Malik Khan, a 12-year veteran of Motorola's Network Systems division, Sitara Networks is headquartered in Waltham, MA, and operates subsidiaries in Canada, South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. More information about the company can be found on the Web at http://www.sitaranetworks.com. About Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group The Information and Communications business segment is part of Siemens, a global powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. and electronics with more than $74 billion in sales. Information and Communications consists of the three groups Information and Communication Networks (51,500 employees, $10.6 billion sales), Information and Communication Mobile (20,000 employees, $5.3 billion sales) and Siemens Business Services (34,000 employees, $5.3 billion sales). Information and Communication Networks is one of the world's leading suppliers of end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for voice, data and mobile networks. Information and Communication Networks provides products, systems, solutions, servicing and support for setting up, operating and maintaining complete corporate and carrier networks. It also offers ancillary Subordinate; aiding. A legal proceeding that is not the primary dispute but which aids the judgment rendered in or the outcome of the main action. A descriptive term that denotes a legal claim, the existence of which is dependent upon or reasonably linked to a main claim. services ranging from network planning and financial consultancy through startup support to user training. Further information on this Siemens Group can be found on the Internet at http://www.siemens.com/ic/networks/. Sitara Networks, Inc., Sitara, QoSWORKS, QoSDirector and QoSArray are all trademarks of Sitara Networks, Inc. |
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