Voyence Unveils Virtual Design Workspace; New VoyenceControl NG Feature Automates Network Deployment Process to Reduce Human Error and Misconfigured Devices

Business Wire, May 15, 2006

RICHARDSON, Texas -- Voyence, a technology visionary in automating network change and configuration management, today announced the availability of its Virtual Design Workspace feature. The cost-saving tool automates design configuration and compliance testing for network devices -- entirely in software and prior to physical deployment -- for error-free installations.

The Virtual Design Workspace enables full role-based security, verified change automation, and multi-level workflows for secure collaboration in a virtual design environment. Additionally, the VoyenceControl NG feature ensures corporate change processes are being followed and documented as well as assuring network designs and configurations meet corporate policies and government regulatory standards prior to service deployment.

"The successful deployment of network devices is undoubtedly linked to installing the proper software configurations -- one wrong keystroke could bring business services to a halt," said Darren Orzechowski, vice president of marketing, Voyence. "Voyence understands this reality and has taken the pressure off of network engineers by enabling them to design network configurations for entire IT infrastructures in software and 'road test' them for policy and regulatory compliance before devices are installed within production networks. The Virtual Design Workspace helps enterprise organizations and service providers confidently embrace new technologies such as VoIP, while reducing the cost of deployments."

Utilizing the Virtual Design Workspace, network engineers work more productively and quickly to achieve critical compliance, change and configuration management goals. VoyenceControl NG's new Virtual Design Workspace features enable IT engineers to:

--Design Entire New Networks or Expand Connectivity Based on Existing Configurations -- Emulate an existing site or remote customer network to use as a template for efficiently expanding services -- without disrupting the production network. Or, virtually construct entire new networks with safe, reusable configurations for unlimited, error-free deployments.

--Real-Time Design Collaboration with Role-Based Security and ITIL Compatible Workflow -- Bring an entire design team together within a virtual environment, to perform real-time network collaborations without affecting the actual production network. VoyenceControl NG's ITIL compatible workflows also ensure final design changes are aligned with existing corporate change processes.

--Create Error-Free Designs Quickly and Efficiently -- Error-free network designs are now possible as Voyence's new offering virtually eliminates human error when rolling out large numbers of similar network devices configured in the same manner. The Virtual Design Workspace's automation capabilities enable large designs to be quickly created and thousands of devices updated with new configurations in only minutes.

--Ensure Designs Meet Corporate Policy and Government Regulatory Standards -- The Virtual Design Workspace helps to mitigate the risk of deploying non-compliant designs into production networks by running compliance checks prior to each design change or, auditing the entire project at once.

--Track Changes From the Virtual Environment to the Production Network -- VoyenceControl NG's Virtual Design Workspace tracks and displays configuration change status as it relates to the production network, for each device associated with the virtual workspace.

About VoyenceControl NG

VoyenceControl NG is the only network change and configuration management solution to address the entire configuration management lifecycle, supporting ITIL best practices while fully automating the process of documenting a network's adherence to government compliance regulations.

To learn more about the Virtual Design Workspace please contact a Voyence representative in the U.S. at 1-866-233-7569, in EMEA at 44 1932 268566 or via email: sales@voyence.com.

About Voyence

Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company's solution, VoyenceControl NG, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl NG is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.