Deal Allows SPECTRUM to Offer Directory-Enabled Networking Solutions
DURHAM, N.H. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- SPECTRUM,
a division of Cabletron Systems (NYSE: CS), and the Sun-Netscape Alliance
today announced that SPECTRUM will bundle Alliance directory and security
Internet infrastructure software with SPECTRUM policy management applications.
The combined solution allows SPECTRUM to offer fully-integrated
directory-enabled networking for routers, switches and other networking
products from Cabletron Systems and third-party vendors. By leveraging the
Alliance directory, SPECTRUM's policy-based network management solution helps
enable e-commerce transactions and other mission-critical business operations
for companies competing in the Net Economy.
As part of the agreement, SPECTRUM will license the Alliance's iPlanet
Directory Server and iPlanet(TM) Certificate Management System to provide
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support, access control,
centralized data storage, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based user
authentication with SPECTRUM Policy Aware, a policy management solution.
"Directories have become a critical part of policy-based management in
e-commerce networks," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president of
infrastructure products for the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "SPECTRUM joins a
growing number of vendors gaining competitive advantage using iPlanet
Directory Server to directory enable their networking products."
SPECTRUM Policy Aware consists of three modules that address security,
quality of service, and routing policy demands. Initially, Policy Aware
applications will focus on the Cabletron SmartSwitch Router and other
SmartSwitch products. The second phase is expected to extend support for third
party switch, router, and DSL equipment.
"As companies look for new ways to leverage opportunities in the Net
Economy, directory-enabled policy-based networking becomes essential to
managing network allocations based on rapidly changing business objectives and
mission-critical applications, said SPECTRUM's executive vice-president,
Michael Skubisz. "The iPlanet Directory Server is an important element in our
policy management solution-set. We will use the directory as an open interface
not only for products that we build, but also to leverage third party
directory enabled applications." SPECTRUM Policy Aware applications are
expected to ship at the end of this year.
iPlanet Directory Server provides the performance, scalability, and
security features required for extranet and e-commerce applications,
supporting millions of users. By centralizing users, groups, policies and
access controls, it also simplifies administration and lowers costs. Network
administrators are able to make a change in the directory once and have it
pushed out automatically to all devices on the network. The directory also
allows administrators to customize access to the corporate network based on
each user's unique profile, as well as to configure multiple devices at once,
rather than each device individually.
The iPlanet Certificate Management System is a highly scalable
certificate-based security solution that helps protect sensitive data and
allows companies to expand the delivery of personalized services on the
Internet. The system builds on the scalable user management and access control
offered by iPlanet Directory Server and provides a cost-effective solution
that allows companies to issue, manage and revoke their own X.509v3 public-key
digital certificates.
About SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM is the leading provider of network management software, providing
customers worldwide with the information necessary to align network and IT
resources with the goals and objectives of the business. Premier service
providers, telecommunications firms, Fortune 1000 companies, government,
financial and educational organizations rely on SPECTRUM to ensure the
reliability of processes that are mission critical to the organization.
Customers include Adelphia Communications, Amgen, Bank of New York,
Compaq, Earthlink, Glaxo Welcome, GTE, NASA, Rogers Cable and Sprint.
Headquartered in Durham, NH, the SPECTRUM business is a company wholly owned
by Cabletron Systems. For more information about SPECTRUM, visit
http://www.cabletron.com/spectrum/.
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)
formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive
enterprise and e-commerce solutions and services to business partners and
other companies competing in today's Net Economy. The alliance product
portfolio provides customers with the industry's most scalable, integrated
infrastructure software and a family of production ready e-commerce
applications. The products are offered on the industry's most widely available
product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM, Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and
Sun. The alliance software product portfolio includes: messaging and
calendar, collaboration, web, application, directory, and certificate servers.
The alliance also offers a family of production-ready applications for
e-commerce, including commerce exchange, procurement, selling, and billing.
About America Online, Inc
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the
world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and
e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet
services, America Online, with more than 18 million members, and CompuServe,
with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands
including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM
portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its
strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the company develops and offers
easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies
operating in the Net Economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is The
Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for
establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet. With more than $11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in
more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/.
NOTE: Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks in the
United States and other countries of Netscape Communications Corporation a
subsidiary of America Online, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo,
iPlanet and The Network is The Computer are trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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CONTACT:
Lara D. Willard of SPECTRUM, 603-337-7444, or
larad@ctron.com; or Jennifer Doettling of the Sun-Netscape
Alliance, 650-937-2804, or jdoettli@netscape.com
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