Lucent Technologies integrates Voice and Data Network Management to speed problem resolution, lower costs; First product from Lucent Technologies/Bay Networks alliance

Business Wire, Sept 10, 1996

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 1996--Lucent Technologies today announced the first product to result from its newly formed strategic alliance with Bay Networks - a powerful network management system that enables businesses to detect and resolve problems quickly in both their voice and data networks.

Named the Lucent Technologies OneVision(tm) Enterprise Network Management Offer, it increases efficiency and reduces costs by letting businesses manage their voice and data networks from a single window on a unified software application. It also enables businesses to more efficiently manage the convergence of voice and data traffic onto common networks.

The offer is based on the integrated technology of Lucent Technologies' OneVision DEFINITY(r) Fault Management software and Bay Networks' Optivity(r) Application Suite.

"With this offer, Lucent Technologies is bringing a productivity tool to market quickly - one that supports the networks our customers run today and serves as a foundation for managing the multimedia networks they'll run tomorrow," said Karyn Mashima, Advanced Multimedia Communications vice president at Lucent Technologies. "Because of our close collaboration with Bay Networks, customers receive an offer that's backed up by our leadership in business communications and Bay Networks' expertise in data networking."

General availability of the OneVision Enterprise Network Management Offer is scheduled for November.

The offer enables the Optivity 7.1 Network Management Application Suite - also scheduled for November availability - to operate with DEFINITY Fault Management software. The Optivity application provides an integrated view of a customer's DEFINITY ECS and switched internetwork in the Optivity Enterprise Command Center. From here, network managers can manage performance, change configuration and diagnose problems for both the voice and data elements.

"This bridges the gap to multimedia-based networks from an operational standpoint," said Nick Lippis, president of Strategic Networks Consulting, Inc. "It serves as a proof-point of what customers can expect from the Bay Networks-Lucent Technologies relationship."

As part of their strategic business alliance announced in July, Bay Networks and Lucent Technologies are cross-licensing certain patents and sharing technology so each company can develop products that will help businesses build and manage multimedia networks. This builds on a reseller relationship established in June of 1995, under which Lucent Technologies resells, services and supports Bay Networks products.

Attendees at the Networld Interop show in Atlanta Sept. 18- 20 can see a demonstration of the OneVision Enterprise Network Management Offer at Lucent Technologies booth #2026.

Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company.

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