Vertel announces the first in a series of new applications to leverage its Power Cats TMN platforms.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1997-- Alarm Surveillance and Management Application launched at Global TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) A set of international standards for network management from the ITU. It is used by large carriers such as Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. Summit 97 Vertel, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Retix (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RETX) and a leading supplier of telecommunications management network The Telecommunications Management Network is a protocol model defined by ITU-T for managing open systems in a communications network. It is part of the ITU-T Recommendation series M.3000 and is based on the OSI management specifications in ITU-T Recommendation series X.700. (TMN) products, Wednesday announced its first application focused on Alarm Surveillance and Management to operate on top of its Power Cats TMN management platforms. The new application product will harness the power of TMN to make monitoring and control of large telecom networks simpler. Vertel will demonstrate the new Alarm Surveillance and Management Application Wednesday for the first time at the Global TMN Summit 97 in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . ``Vertel is delivering on its promise to continuously add value for its equipment-manufacturer and service-provider TMN customers,'' said Bobby Martyna, executive vice president for Vertel. ``This and future applications we will bring to market during the coming year will accelerate the deployment of TMN, provide cost savings and shorten time to market for our customers. ``This is the first application to fully utilize the inherent advantages of TMN platforms, including scalability and object orientation.'' Vertel has been combining the basic building blocks of TMN network management into increasingly ready-to-use, robust configurations. The company first offered TMN protocol stacks The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). , then combined these into tool kits. Vertel followed last year by introducing its Power Cats TMN management platforms. Now Vertel is bringing the first of a series of standards-compliant TMN applications to market. ``This is the fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. of our strategy to increasingly offer sophisticated TMN software to simplify management tasks for our users,'' added Martyna. ``They can apply the power of TMN directly to managing their networks and bypass the time-consuming steps of in-house programming.'' Vertel's new Alarm Surveillance and Management Application works on top of the company's Power Cat TMN management platform. The Vertel Power Cat platform is an object-oriented, development environment that harnesses the power of Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol) Pronounced "c-mip." A network monitoring and control standard from ISO. CMOT (CMIP over TCP) is a version that runs on TCP/IP networks, and CMOL (CMIP over LLC) runs on IEEE 802 LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.). ) and the Association Control Service Element (ACSE ACSE - Association Control Service Element ) for building complex network-management systems quickly and efficiently. It provides a communication infrastructure that lets developers focus on application development rather than on communicating with the managed objects. Vertel's new Alarm Surveillance and Management Application receives alarms from both TMN and non-TMN devices, and brings them into an object-oriented platform environment. If monitored network elements or services have Q3 TMN interfaces, Vertel's application can plug in directly. For non-TMN devices, Vertel's advanced TL1 Q-adapter technology translates between TL1 and TMN Q3, so they can then be managed as if they had Q3 interfaces. Armed with this useful network information, the operator can monitor, control and respond to alarms. Vertel's new application will replace cumbersome, expensive proprietary implementations within a TMN-compliant environment. Vertel's Alarm Surveillance and Management Application is available as a dynamically customizable product, with either Vertel or customer engineers fine-tuning the application to suit a particular environment. The new application is available on an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and basis for manufacturers to be used as the foundation for an element management layer (EML EML - Extended ML. A language for formally specifying SML programs. ["Formal Program Development in Extended ML for the Working Programmer", D. Sannella, Proc 3rd BCS/FACS Workshop on Refinement", Springer 1990]. ) product. A hallmark of Vertel's technology has been portability. The new application will be ported to the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. environments using the advanced portability features of Java. ``Vertel's TMN software will help Austron remain a leader in the worldwide telecommunications-sync market,'' said Jack Rice, president of Austron. ``We have been designing timing technologies for the military, navigation and telecom industries for over 30 years and have deployed thousands of timing and NetSync systems in over 30 countries. Our telecom customers demand the utmost in performance and standards compliance, so we are continuously adding new technologies such as TMN. ``Vertel's new Alarm Surveillance and Management Application,'' added Rice, ``has given us an incredible leg up on developing a deployable TMN element management system. It lets us monitor and control our network more efficiently in a TMN environment without having to sink time into proprietary solutions.'' Vertel Vertel focuses on the VERtical integration of TELecommunications software for specific TMN users. The company provides advanced telecommunications-management solutions including communications- infrastructure products, network-management platforms, and applications software for telecommunication carrier networks worldwide. In addition, Vertel serves telecom-equipment manufacturers, computer-systems OEMs and Internet-access providers. The company is based in Woodland Hills, Calif., with research and development facilities in Dublin, Ireland, and sales offices throughout the world. Contact Vertel on the World Wide Web at http://www.vertel.com Except for the historical information presented, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties, including Vertel's timely development and success of new and enhanced products in existing and new markets, the impact of competitive products, pricing and other risks detailed from time to time in public-disclosure filings of Vertel's parent company, Retix, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Copies of Retix's most recent Forms 10K and 10Q are available upon request from the company's Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Department. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Vertel, Global TMN Summit and Power Cats are all trademarks of Vertel. Retix is a registered trademark of Retix. CONTACT: Vertel Vicki Vaughn, 818/227-1456 vicki-vaughn@vertel.com or PLAZApr Francine Plaza, 561/477-9762 plaza_pr@gate.net |
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