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Marketing Agreement Between NetReality and Agilent Technologies Inc.

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Santa Clara, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetReality, the WAN-based application accelerator, has signed a marketing agreement with Agilent Technologies Inc., currently a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. The agreement enables users of Agilent's NetMetrix Performance Center to proactively manage bandwidth by employing NetReality's Adaptive Circuit-Based Shaping (ACS) traffic technology. As part of the agreement, NetReality's patent-pending ACS software will be offered via joint marketing with Agilent and NetReality channels working in tandem. The two companies are also evaluating plans to potentially integrate NetReality's ACS technology into a future release of NetMetrix Performance Center.

Key Takeaways:

  • The marketing agreement between NetReality and Agilent Technologies Inc. enables users of Agilent's NetMetrix Performance Center to proactively manage bandwidth by employing NetReality's Adaptive Circuit-Based Shaping (ACS) traffic technology.
  • NetReality's patent-pending ACS software will be offered via joint marketing with Agilent and NetReality channels working in tandem.
  • The two companies are evaluating plans to potentially integrate NetReality's ACS technology into a future release of NetMetrix Performance Center.
  • Agilent and NetReality will market network performance and bandwidth shaping solutions, configurations that encompass products currently available from both companies, including Agilent's NetMetrix Performance Center, NetMetrix T1 probes, and NetReality's WiseWan traffic shaper.
  • NetReality's WiseWan traffic shaper will transparently collect monitoring information from NetMetrix probes, and then allocate bandwidth to the appropriate key applications as directed.
  • The WiseWan traffic shaper user can employ ACS technology to limit traffic and ensure mission-critical applications get top priority.
  • NetReality and Agilent have successfully tested and confirmed that NetReality's WiseWan traffic shaper and Agilent's NetMetrix T1 probes work in tandem and can support one or more T1 links with a combined speed of up to 5 megabits (Mbs), running over FrameRelay or leased lines.
  • The agreement will also expand Agilent's customers' options and provide an even more robust network performance solution.

Statistics:

  • Pricing for Agilent's NetMetrix Performance Center starts at $5,995.
  • Agilent's T1 WAN probe starts at $5,995.
  • NetReality's ACS technology starts at $6,950.
  • WiseWan provides CSU/DSU functionality and enables corporations, service providers, and carriers to manage Quality of Service and enforce SLAs.
  • NetReality is based in Santa Clara, Calif. and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Sources:

  • "Marketing Agreement Includes Immediate Joint Sales Calls," Business Wire, November 10, 1999.
  • "About NetReality," NetReality website, accessed on [no date provided].

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