Vertel enhances "Power Cats" software platforms; announces shipment of new TMN vertical software solutions and enhancements.WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1996--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, Monday announced a series of new products to enhance its "Power Cats" software solutions platforms that help telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers speed the delivery of new software-defined digital services. The platforms -- which combine vertically integrated software tools and technology for the management of telecommunications elements, systems and services -- are named for the world's swiftest and strongest "Power Cats": Vertel Cougar, Vertel Jaguar, Vertel Tigress and Vertel Panther. The company is launching new vertical solutions software tools within its Cougar Embedded Telecommunications Solution (ETS) products family as well as strengthening all the Power Cats platforms by deploying the TMN Jaguar TMN Development Environment. "Vertel is responding to customer demand for enhanced support and performance, coupled with decreased memory footprint for TMN Power Cats network management solutions," said Bruce Brown, president and 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. of Vertel. "Vertel's new products bridge the management gap between public and private networks, more reliably, with greater speed and smaller memory demands so our customers can rapidly realize revenue from new telephony services." Vertical Embedded Telecommunications Solutions Vertel is introducing new Cougar Embedded Telecommunications Solution (ETS) products that are integrated in the equipment in a TMN network. Cougar ETS software can be installed in network elements such as SONET/SDH, ATM telecommunications equipment, wireless base stations, set-top cable boxes and digital loop carrier In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. devices. The new products include: -- Cougar ETS-ATM supporting the Network View of the ATM Forum M4 interface management stack for Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM). -- Cougar ETS-CDPD supports the CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. v1.1 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. . Tellabs, Vertel's first customer for this product, successfully integrated the Cougar embedded TMN software (ETS) software into the Tellabs DataCell Mobile Data Base Station (MDBS MDBS Mobile Data Base Station MDBS Multidatabase System MDBS Mississippi Delta Blues Society (Bena, MS) MDBS Managed Data Base Service MDBS Mobile Data Base System MDBS Multi Data Base System ) for the Cellular Digital Packet Data (communications, protocol) Cellular Digital Packet Data - (CDPD) A wireless standard providing two-way, 19.2 kbps packet data transmission over exisiting cellular telephone channels. (CDPD) network. DataCell acts as the interface between the mobile subscriber who transmits data over the air, and the large, stationary cellular backbone data network. -- Following on the successful launch of Cougar ETS-SONET/SDH products in June, Vertel is bringing the next release, v1.1, to market with enhanced support. The complete set of SONET/SDH managed objects will be supported along with behaviors in a syntax checked, error-free, precompiled MIB. This ready-to-deploy MIB saves the customer MIB construction time and the expense of hiring consultants with information modeling expertise. -- Cougar SNMP-CMIP dual agent, a convergence technology implementation, to provide an embedded agent for telecommunications equipment that supports both 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 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. protocols with a common managed object interface. Aimed at ATM equipment, and supporting both the CMIP and SNMP M4 MIBs, this combination allows management of devices at the boundary of public and enterprise networks by both legacy SNMP network and TMN compliant platforms. The Cougar dual agent also eases management for the service provider whose system is in transition from one protocol to another. -- Cougar ETS-V5.1/V5.2, to manage local exchange interfaces for European networks conforming to the V5.1/V5.2 ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. standard for the Digital Local Exchange Interface (ETSI standard ETS 300 150) will be released by Vertel. -- Vertel is also announcing RFC 1006 support for all ETS products. Cougar ETS-RFC1006 brings operating system independent RFC-1006 (OSI upper layer protocols over TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. internetwork protocols) support to the Cougar product line. Vertel's experience in supporting RFC-1006 products on workstation platforms promoted the development of an encapsulation layer that allows for easy interfacing with embedded TCP/IP stack interfaces such as sockets and streams. RFC-1006 allows network operators to manage equipment over TCP/IP internets where routers often do not support OSI protocols routing. The use of TCP/IP is totally transparent to the CMISE CMISE Common Management Information Service Element (OSI & X.710/ISO 9595) CMISE Corps Military Intelligence Support Element (TMN) management protocol. Vertel has further validated its Jupiter portation layer strategy for the Cougar ETS product by completing customer deployment of Cougar ETS on VxWorks, bringing the total number of real time operating systems supported by off-the-shelf reference portations to four. These are pSOS, VRTX An earlier real time operating system for embedded systems from Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR (www.mentor.com). VRTX was the progenitor of the VxWorks OS from Wind River and was superseded by Nucleus OS. VRTX - Virtual Real-Time Executive. , VxWorks, and MTOS. "Vertel's mission is to provide the most complete set of vertically integrated TMN solutions in the industry. With this release, we have taken a giant step towards achieving that goal," Brown added. Jaguar TMN Development Environment Strengthens Power Cats In addition to launching new vertical solutions software tools, Vertel is strengthening the Power Cats Platforms with the introduction of the Jaguar TMN Development Environment. This Development Environment, which consists of role-independent simulation tools, object compilers, manager and agent application programming frameworks and a fully implemented standard template library The Standard Template Library (STL) is a software library partially included in the C++ Standard Library. It provides containers, iterators, algorithms, and functors. (STL), is based on the new TMN/C++ API defined by NMF NMF An abbreviation for "no meaningful figure". You'll often see this when comparing financial data among companies where a certain ratio or figure isn't applicable. Notes: For example, if company has negative earnings, it cannot have a P/E ratio. . Vertel is now adding standard C++ APIs to fully support the ASN (1) (Autonomous System Number) A unique identifier of an autonomous system on the Internet. Of the 65 thousand ASNs available, more than 30 thousand have been assigned to ISPs and NSPs. ISPs usually have only one ASN, but NSPs may have more than one. .1, CMISE/ACSE, and GDMO API layers of the TMN/C++ model. Developers have a shorter learning curve since the APIs are based on existing, standards-defined, object-oriented technologies. The complexities of the CMISE and ACSE services are hidden behind the standard interface, so developers can concentrate on the application. Developers can reuse and share API objects across agent and manager applications skill sets which can be carried over to future development efforts. The Jaguar TMN Development Environment improves upon the already successful TMN Manager Development Environment, which is also based on the NMF TMN/C++ standard APIs. The existing Manager Development Environment has demonstrated substantial reductions in time-to-market and cost of application development for companies such as GTE, Sprint and US West. Vertel Jaguar TMN Development Environment components will be shipping by the end of the year to fulfill orders for customers such as Motorola, Nera and TCSI. Future versions of Jaguar TMN Development Environment components will support persistent storage by embedding Versant's Object Database Management System (ODBMS (Object DataBase Management System) See object database. ) as well as dynamic, incremental MIB configurations. These features will allow customers to focus all their efforts on application design and development while relying on their Vertel Power Cats platform to provide storage mechanisms, TMN-conformant services and ongoing support for all MIB objects. Vertel Corp. 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, with research and development facilities in Dublin, Ireland, and sales offices throughout the world. Except for the historical information presented, the matters discussed in this news release are forward looking statements that involve some risk, including Vertel's 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 Vertel's parent company's (Retix -- NASDAQ:RETX) public disclosure filings 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 Department. Contact Vertel on the World Wide Web at http://www.vertel.com. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Vertel, Vertel Cougar, Vertel Jaguar, Vertel Tigress, and Vertel Panther are all trademarks of Vertel. Retix is a registered trademark of Retix. CONTACT: Vertel Corp., Woodland Hills Vicki Vaughn, 818/227-1456 vicki-vaughn@vertel.com or PLAZApr Francine Plaza, 561/477-9762 plaza_pr@gate.net |
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