Manual Network Configuration impedes MPLS Network adoption

August 30, 2004--Intelliden Corporation, the intelligent networking company, announced that the growing popularity of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks -- if limited by manual change processes or only incremental improvements with basic scripting mechanisms -- will quickly dampen MPLS network adoption. Worldwide VPN service revenue totaled $18 billion in 2003, and is expected to grow to over $30 billion in 2008, according to Infonetics Research's newest annual market size and forecast report, VPN and Security Services.

Intelliden, an active TeleManagement Forum member, is committed to solving the VPN management challenge facing all service providers, enterprises and government organizations. Intelliden can be found at booth #138 in Kokuyo Hall for the TeleManagement World (TMW) event, held here this week. Chris Turner, Intelliden vice president worldwide sales, will address TMW attendees Wednesday, September 1, regarding the current network infrastructure crisis.

Automating today's manual VPN management maximizes the true potential that MPLS offers enterprises, governments and service providers in consolidating Layer 2 Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, and traditional IP data traffic onto an MPLS core. The triple play of consolidated voice, video, and data -- combined with the cost savings that an MPLS VPN provides -- enables customers to lower their costs, increase their network optimization and accelerate their service provisioning.

"Leading enterprise, federal and service providers recognize the need for a reliable and automated VPN provisioning solution," said Glen Tindal, Intelliden chief technology officer. "Intelliden is the first company to provide open and extensible APIs and model-driven VPN service activation. We've integrated the flexibility of standards-based solutions with the intelligence of XML, a widely adopted content language, to provide our customers with the comprehensive VPN solutions they need."

With the Intelliden R-Series(R) VPN Manager application, it is no longer necessary for network engineers to have an understanding of different device types, manufacturers or OS languages in order to enforce standardization of network devices. Intelliden captures information about the unique features of every single IP device in the network -- regardless of vendors or technologies -- and imports the knowledge into the R-Series data store.

The Intelliden VPN Manager application provides these additional benefits:

-- Service Visibility and Control. The industry's first VPN Command Set macros that intelligently apply functionality to multiple VPN devices based on individual device state. Users can design their own VPN implementations, including MPLS and IPSec, and enhance existing services without the need for custom coding.

-- Enhanced Service Security. Engineers can implement Intelliden's industry-first enhanced Security Sets to create policy-based access control lists within the VPN. Automated schema generation via patent-pending software automatically interrogates devices and generates schemas.

-- Zero-Touch Provisioning. Intelliden has the industry's first open and extensible VPN APIs that can fully automate IP VPN provisioning for zero-touch service enablement and provide for complete auditing, configuration, security and provisioning capabilities.

-- Workflow Management. The industry's first policy-based workflow management engine aligns network and IT resources with VPN management priorities.

-- Model-Based Architecture. The industry's first XML model-based architecture provides a common data plane and complete understanding and control at the vendor/type/model/OS version (VTMOS) level. This approach provides the foundation for service management; this knowledge base provides an XML map of the device capabilities and services within a network. Intelliden's unique, patent-pending, model-based architecture is the key to automation and is a critical component to reliably validate and implement highly scalable VPN solutions.

The Intelliden VPN Manager provides instant service management control of every IP VPN managed. It enables users to share that control with any application, any person, any place via Intelliden's Web-based interface and standards-based API. Disparate VPN services can be provisioned securely. Manual processes are eliminated, while activation functions are made simple, repeatable and efficient.