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Purpose-Built Gateway Provides Ideal Platform for Unifying Branch Services, Improving Service Resiliency, Enabling Full Remote Management SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2005—Ushering in a new era of deployment and management simplicity for remote enterprise networks, NetDevices, Inc., a developer of services gateway products for enterprise branch networks, today introduced its SG-8 Unified Services Gateway (USG). A purpose-built solution for next-generation IP networks, the SG-8 simplifies networking at large branch and regional offices by unifying multiple services—-standards-based security, next-generation services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), data services, and access services—-into one always-available, remotely manageable platform. Services unification improves services resiliency and flexibility, substantially lowers operating expenses, and enables IT managers to respond rapidly to new service requirements while maintaining global management control of the enterprise edge. Large branch and regional offices, where some 80 percent of enterprise employees are now located, need advanced network solutions that support enterprise business applications, protect critical data, and are just as functional, reliable, and available as the corporate network. Yet today’s solutions fall far short of this mark. Typically, each branch of a Fortune 500 company has six or seven discrete network appliances, and purchasing, integrating, maintaining, and managing them is expensive and time consuming. While routing and security vendors offer multi-services devices today, these systems are not much more than a collection of independent service appliances consolidated into one box, offering little in the way of economies of scale, cost, processing, or management. “Our simple and elegant solution supports business services by unifying the processing and management of remote enterprise services to ensure they are always available, accessible, and running at peak performance,� said Seenu Banda, founder, president, and CEO of NetDevices. “With the SG-8 Unified Services Gateway, the enterprise can improve the quality and reliability of branch office services, slash expenses, increase IT productivity, and provide a rapid return on investment.� A market is now emerging for modular, highly available, standards-based business gateways that support multi-services from the ground up and offer a wide variety of service modules. In-Stat estimated the size of the global business gateway market was $1.2 billion in 2004 and projects it will represent a total market opportunity of $16.6 billion by 2008. “Over the next 12-24 months, In-Stat has predicted a new breed of branch office multi-service devices will emerge,� said Keith Nissen, senior analyst, In-Stat/MDR. “Designed to support multi-services from the ground up, these devices will form a new product segment—the ‘Business Services Gateway.’ The Business Services Gateway will be a modular, standards-based device offering high-availability, a wide variety of service modules, and integrated system management. NetDevices is the first vendor to come onto the market with a true services gateway.� Purpose-Built to Unify Services, Improve Performance
Services unification is enabled by NetDevices’ unique OnePass packet processing capability, which uses a common packet classification and identification capability to leverage functional processes across multiple services. OnePass helps guarantee enterprise-level performance, scalability, and efficient processor use by classifying and inspecting packets just once for all services. Other multi-service solutions increase processor load and introduce latency by scanning each packet multiple times, once for each service. Another innovation of the SG-8 architecture is NetDevices’ ModuLiveTM operating system, which provides a carrier-class, fully modular environment for services to run independently, thus maximizing their resiliency and simplifying management. With ModuLive, enterprise IT and managed service providers can start and stop individual services and computing modules without affecting other services, enabling much simpler service upgrades and additions. Redundant, modular hardware enables users to insert and remove interface and processing modules while other services keep running. The Lifeline management framework, with a dedicated management plane and processors, helps ensure maximum system availability by enabling remote management and troubleshooting of all gateway elements, regardless of the status of the main system processor or control plane. “As a major institution with tens of thousands of users and numerous remote sites, Northern Illinois University needs a solution that’s easy to deploy and minimizes multi-service complexity for our IT staff,� said Walter Czerniak, vice president of information technology, Northern Illinois University. “The NetDevices SG-8 will be capable of helping NIU achieve that through its unified services, scalability, and remote manageability.� Centralized Management SimplifiesOperations, Improves Productivity “NetDevices’ Unified Services Gateway enables us to provide the benefits of high-speed connectivity and a full suite of managed voice and security services for our customers," said Tammy Eighmy, co-founder of Rocknet, a managed services provider. "Through the SG-8 device, hundreds of customers can simply and securely leverage our fiber ring as an Internet on-ramp to expand their business opportunities and economics. Together, we're able to reduce operating expenses by managing our customers' platforms remotely, and because the SG-8 is highly modular, we’re able to seamlessly add new services for them well into the future.� Price and Availability About NetDevices Inc. Julie Huang Mark Weiner |
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