Jun, 2001 : IBM and Nortel Network Team Up To Provide Net Services

📅 June 4, 2001 - On Monday, computer manufacturing and e-business services giant IBM Corporation (ibm.com) announced that it would be packaging its e-business technology along with telecommunications equiment from Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com) and Redback Networks.

Unveiled at the SuperComm telecommunications trade show in Atlanta, are designed to give telecommunication service providers the technology required to offer new services to their business customers.
The partnership with Nortel will bring IBM's Internet infrastructure software and hardware together with Nortel's optical equipment for building metropolitan area networks. And while IBM competes with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others in the e-business software market, Nortel competes with companies like Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies in the metropolitan networks market. The IBM and Nortel integrated offering includes hosting services, like corporate data storage, or renting software over the Web.
The IBM and Nortel partnership is also designed to allow service providers to offer better security for things like virtual private networks. The combined technology will also allow businesses to offer different levels of services to customers, ensuring that priority operations like e-business transactions or phone calls take priority in the network bandwidth over things like email and Web surfing.
The products involved in the partnership include IBM's WebSphere ApplicationServer Web transaction managing software, along with high-end IBM computers. Nortel will include its optical equipment for metropolitan networks and its Alteon Web switch, which speeds the delivery of Web content.
IBM's partnership with broadband access equipment maker Redback is similarly designed to offer new Net-based services to businesses and consumers. Redback's networking equipment allows service providers to offer digital subscriber line and cable access to customers.
The companies? products will allow service providers to offer new services like game rental through the Web, e-mail, Web hosting and virus scanning security software for small businesses. Large businesses will be able to offer larger applications like customer management software.
The Redback alliance includes software from IBM's subsidiary Trivoli, which will allow service providers to create Web sites that let customers order and manage the services they want.

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