Wave Issue 0107 2/5/01 Article 4-01

***Atoga Systems Introduces Instant Provisioning of Application
Services with AppDirector
(January 30)

Atoga Systems, a developer of intelligent Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM) solutions, has introduced AppDirector, a
network-management system for harnessing metered application
services on intelligent optical networks. AppDirector and Atoga's
Optical Application Router 5 (OAR 5), form a complete
provisioning solution for metropolitan service providers.

AppDirector is a service provider's window to the OAR 5 network.
Using AppDirector's intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), a
network administrator dynamically manages bandwidth by defining
service-level agreements (SLAs) and network-usage policies that
drive the tunable lasers. The Atoga platform provides a metro
service provider with the service velocity and provisioning
simplicity it needs to roll out a variety of high-bandwidth,
latency-sensitive, metered services such as video on demand,
content hosting, data mirroring, remote backup and other
business-critical applications.

AppDirector and OAR 5 are in beta tests with several service
providers. General availability is scheduled for March 2001.

AppDirector includes three other standards-based components:

- a ring manager which can re-provision metro rings as customer
needs dictate, giving service providers the flexibility to
optimize the usage of network resources;

- a fault manager for collection, correlation, storage and
display of network-element alarms, enabling administrators to
monitor network status and ensure smooth operation; and

- a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) interface
to facilitate communication between AppDirector clients and the
AppDirector policy server and integration with third-party
Operations and Support Systems (OSSs) or other, home-grown
network applications.

www.atoga.com