New Server-Based Tools Make Niche Apps Easier.
Multichannel News, September, 1999 by DAWSON, FRED
Network operators struggling to meet surging business demand for enhanced services will soon be able to use a new class of server-based tools to streamline the provisioning of niche-specific applications. Paralleling the growth of hosted applications service providers (ASPs) supplying refined IP (Internet-protocol) and other packet services new class of carrier-oriented vendors is coming up with flexible methods to exploit the "big iron" from major manufacturers of ATM (asynchronous-transfer-mode) switches, network-class routers, servers and other hardware.
Approaches vary widely but these new tools typically combine software based on Sun Microsystems' Java language with the latest microprocessing technology advances to enhance network operators'...
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