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| NextHop UNS 4.0 Jumpstarts Unified Wireless and Wired Switching Market with Industry’s First Turnkey Software Solution |
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NextHop | , | December 13, 2005
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 13, 2005 – NextHop Technologies“ Inc., the leader in networking software solutions, today announced NextHop UNS 4.0, the world’s first secure, enterprise-class software solution for unified switching. NextHop UNS 4.0 enables network equipment manufacturers to accelerate time to market, and, more importantly, time to revenue for new unified wireless and wired local area network (LAN) products at significantly lower price points versus existing overlay solutions.
"The era of separate and distinct wired and wireless LANs is coming to an end,” said Craig Mathias, a principal with the wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group. "The next step is unified LANs, typified by a common base of functionality serving both wired and wireless users, extensions for wireless-specific capabilities, and much lower capital and operating expenses. We expect to see a huge variety of unified products, using innovative software to exploit very cost-effective, high-performance hardware."
Network equipment manufacturers who traditionally relied exclusively on their own development organizations to build complete solutions are faced with new business realities – downsized engineering, outsourced development and the need for value added differentiation – and are increasingly looking to original design manufacturers (ODMs) to provide them with solutions. Innovative ODMs like ASUSTek Computer and Delta Networks are taking the approach of aggregating open market technologies (silicon chips and operating systems) with NextHop UNS 4.0 to deliver the first unified switching products.
“Unified LANs are a significant evolution in enterprise networking,” said Frank Chiang, associate vice president, R&D for ASUSTek Computer. “We chose to integrate NextHop’s industry leading turnkey software solution with ASUS’ robust unified switching products to provide customers with a complete wireless LAN switching solution.”
“Our corporate vision is to provide our clients with cost-effective products that are superior in quality and reliability,” said Sam Liang, chairman and CEO of Delta Networks Inc. “Using the new wireless LAN capabilities of NextHop UNS 4.0 in combination with our expert engineering and service capabilities, we are confident we can help our customers satisfy the market's demand for new unified switching products.”
DNA (Dynamic Network Architecture) is the core of all NextHop software solutions and enables equipment manufacturers to build the differentiated best-of-breed solutions required in today’s market. DNA delivers modular software components that are portable across industry standard silicon and RTOS (real-time operating system) platforms. API’s (application program interfaces) provide for easy integration of leading ISV (independent software vendor) applications, with unified management and control interfaces to provide an easy to understand and operate system.
“Unified switching, endorsed by all the networking market leaders and influencers, is a disruptive market technology that presents tremendous opportunities for vendors who quickly adapt to the new market dynamics,” said Ed Cluss president and CEO of NextHop. “NextHop UNS 4.0 streamlines innovation for these vendors, enabling them to bring next generation unified switches to market with unprecedented speed.”
Key features of NextHop UNS 4.0 include:
• Integrated Ethernet/WLAN switching — Enables truly unified networks, and eliminates the operational and capital expense of maintaining an overlay WLAN network
• Simple, centralized management — Seamlessly integrates with enterprise class management stations for both wireless and wired networking. RF awareness, mapping and management
• Strong security — Enterprise class security for wireless traffic
• Large network scalability — Designed for carrier-class scalability, NextHop software is capable of meeting the needs of the most demanding enterprises, both today and into the future
• Enterprise wide mobility support — True mobility (voice, data and video), across APs, switches, and even across subnets; and fast roaming for emerging applications such as voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN)
Availability
NextHop UNS 4.0 will be generally available December 20, 2005. Companies interested in becoming NextHop DNA partners should contact NextHop at http://www.nexthop.com/company/contact.php.
About NextHop Technologies
NextHop Technologies® Inc., the leader in networking software solutions, enables original equipment manufacturers to quickly bring wireless and wired switches to market at significantly lower price points than existing alternatives. The company’s Dynamic Network Architecture (DNA) delivers modular software components - wireless plus NextHop’s flagship GateD® solutions for LAN switching, routing, multicast, IPv6 and MPLS - that are easily portable across switching silicon and operating systems. The DNA framework also allows our customers and partners to easily augment NextHop solutions with differentiating 3rd party applications and features for carrier and enterprise markets. NextHop is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information visit www.nexthop.com
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