Nakina Systems, ANDA Networks Partner on Carrier-Grade Management Solution for Metro Ethernet Networks

Business Wire, June 12, 2008

Companies collaborate to help service providers accelerate deployments of next-generation Carrier Ethernet services

OTTAWA -- Nakina Systems today announced a partnership agreement with ANDA Networks to jointly develop and market Nakina's carrier-grade, multi-vendor, multi-technology network management solution for managing ANDA Networks' EtherTone[R] Ethernet access product portfolio. The Nakina Network OS[TM] software will be used by ANDA as a platform to power its EtherView 2.0 carrier-grade element management system (EMS) product line. The scalable, reliable and secure, pre-integrated management solution will help service providers accelerate deployments of Carrier Ethernet services and provide a single point of integration into higher level back office systems.

"Our service provider customers are aggressively rolling out next-generation Ethernet 2.0 access services," said Greg Gum, VP Marketing and Business Development, ANDA Networks. "Typically, they are faced with trying to scale their management solutions to deploy, remotely manage and provision Ethernet networks while facilitating rapid integration into their existing back office systems. Nakina's software already manages our products in some of our largest accounts, so they were a natural choice for us as we developed our new carrier grade EtherView 2.0 multi-vendor EMS management solution. Our service provider customers benefit from reduced time-to-market and ease of integrating best-of-breed technologies rapidly into their OSS with a solution that not only supports ANDA devices, but also other vendors' equipment that we routinely interface to upstream."

Nakina's software helps service providers expedite new services roll outs while improving the efficiency and cost structure of their operations. As a single point of integration, the Nakina Network OS[TM] platform reduces the 'OSS Integration Tax' by rationalizing the number of management systems required. Scaling to manage tens of thousands of network elements, the Nakina Network OS[TM] platform provides a single, flexible network and element management solution that supports full Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) functionality across legacy and next-generation networks.

"Leading equipment vendors in the IP/Ethernet market are differentiating their products and gaining market share as a direct result of their network and element management strategies," said Peter Mottishaw, senior analyst for OSS Observer. "Very few communication service providers have single vendor networks, and the overhead and challenges of integrating heterogeneous OSS applications and systems with equipment across different technologies is expensive and time consuming. Network equipment manufacturers that address these requirements will have a more competitive offering that holds the potential to significantly reduce OSS integration, maintenance and staff training costs for service providers."

"Increasingly, service providers are demanding complete, pre-integrated solutions for managing next-generation network infrastructure and services," added Mary O'Neill, vice president of Market Development and Professional Services at Nakina Systems. "Leading network equipment vendors and their service provider customers recognize the value and flexibility of using Nakina's solution as a standards-based, scalable and secure, off-the-shelf management platform. The Nakina Network OS allows them to simplify development and integration efforts and roll out services faster with a single point of integration into back-office OSS systems across multiple equipment vendors and technologies."

The Nakina Network OS[TM] software for managing ANDA Networks' EtherTone[TM] Ethernet access products is available today and will be showcased in live demonstrations in the ANDA Networks booth #SU11016 at this year's NXTComm show in Las Vegas, June 16-19, 2008.

About Nakina Systems

Nakina provides one platform to discover, secure and manage multi-vendor networks. Using Nakina's software, service providers expedite the rollout of next-generation services with a single management solution that configures and manages any vendor's networking products. As a single point of integration between the network and higher-level management applications, the Nakina Network OS[TM] reduces operating expenses, bolsters identity management security, and improves workflow productivity by automating operations like software upgrades, backup and restore, discovery, fault, performance and configuration management. And it's all with one system. Only from Nakina.

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