NETCONF (RFC 4741) is an IETF standard developed to meet the increasing need for automated configuration management in modern enterprise and carrier networks. Designed from the ground up to address these needs, NETCONF provides the foundation for the transformation from manual to highly automated network operations. YANG extends the benefits of NETCONF by providing a standards-based approach to modeling network element management data.

“The interest in NETCONF and YANG is growing rapidly as the networking industry must meet new requirements to configure complex new services efficiently and accurately,” said Carl Moberg, COO, Tail-f Systems. “The demand for information on these technologies has grown to a scale where it makes sense for us to offer a formal training program.”

The standard two-day course will provide students both a comprehensive overview of the NETCONF protocol and the associated YANG modeling language and include practical hands-on experience through a series of Labs. The training is aimed at product managers, architects, engineering managers, and developers. Classes will be taught by Tail-f Systems’ senior technical and product managers who are experienced with real-world implementations of these technologies.
The NETCONF and YANG training classes with be available starting in the third quarter of 2010. For more information on the curriculum and pricing, email Tail-f Systems at info@tail-f.com.

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of configuration management software for networking equipment providers. Six of the ten largest global networking equipment providers are Tail-f Systems’ customers. Users of Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

“Tail-f Systems’ ConfM product allows us to rapidly add full NETCONF support to our product offering,” said Eric Wegner for WebNMS, a division of ZOHO Corp. “We are excited to make NETCONF available to our customers who are building next generation EMS/NMS applications. NETCONF, being XML based, makes device integration easier than SNMP, more reliable than using a CLI, and less expensive to develop with than either of them.”

NETCONF (RFC 4741) is an IETF standard developed to meet the increasing need for automated configuration management in modern enterprise and carrier networks. Designed from the ground-up to address these needs, NETCONF provides the foundation for the transformation from manual to highly automated network operations.

“We are very pleased to partner with WebNMS and help NETCONF-enable their industry leading EMS/NMS framework,” said Carl Moberg, COO,Tail-f Systems. “Support for NETCONF is becoming a requirement among enterprise and carrier networks seeking to scale their operations efficiency and reduce the risk inherent in manual configuration by applying automation to common configuration tasks.”

The WebNMS Framework is used by development teams to build element and network management systems in a cost effective and efficient manner. ConfM is a Java-based software application that allows developers to augment EMS/NMS applications with support for the NETCONF protocol. By adding NETCONF to the set of supported protocols, network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications carriers using WebNMS can now define and execute automated tasks using the NETCONF protocol for transaction safe configuration changes.
One of the many additional benefits of using NETCONF over previously available protocols is the support for transactions across configuration changes, ensuring the consistency of the configuration of all devices in the network, and eliminating the risk of outages related to manual configuration tasks.

For pricing and evaluation of WebNMS with NETCONF support, contact WebNMS, a division of ZOHO Corp. at www.webnms.com.

For pricing and evaluation of ConfM, contact Tail-f Systems at www.tail-f.com.

About WebNMS
WebNMS is the framework division of ZOHO Corp. that helps network equipment manufacturers and carriers build their network, systems and element management systems. ZOHO Corp. was founded in 1996 and is a privately-held and profitable company, which also is the maker of the leading IT Management Software division, ManageEngine and the Web 2.0 leader, www.zoho.com. With headquarters in Pleasanton, CA and offices in Austin, New Jersey, London, Tokyo and Beijing, WebNMS serves the management technology needs of hundreds of network equipment manufacturers and service providers. ZOHO Corp. serves the technology needs of more than 60,000 customers worldwide. For more information about WebNMS, please visit http://www.webnms.com.

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of configuration management software for networking equipment providers. Six of the ten largest global networking equipment providers are Tail-f Systems’ customers. Users of Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

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Scheduled for June 1-3 at the Hotel Novotel Convention & Wellness Roissy CDG, the conference is designed for networking equipment providers and carriers interested in more cost effective network automation implementation solutions.

On June 1st Johan Bevemyr, Tail-f System’s Chief Software Engineer, will open the event with a full day Technical Tutorial focused on the NETCONF protocol and YANG data modeling language. After an introduction to NETCONF and YANG, Bevemyr will lead a discussion about how transactional configuration changes are supported, guardrails can be achieved, and configuration validation can be performed before applying a new set of configurations. Carl Moberg, VP Engineering, Tail-f Systems, will deliver the conference keynote address on June 2nd. His presentation, entitled “Dynamic Service Configuration and Automated Network Configuration with NETCONF and YANG,” will explore how NETCONF and YANG simplifies automated device and service provisioning, and helps developers eliminate expensive, complicated and error prone ad hoc scripting techniques.

“NECONF and YANG represent a paradigm shift in way networks will be configured,” said Moberg. “The increasing complexity of carrier and enterprise networks and the demand for new services is driving the need for improved configuration management systems. We are looking forward to discussing how automated configuration management will reduce costs, increase reliability, and respond to customer needs.”

See www.upperside.fr/networkautomation2010/networkautomation2010intro.htm for more information about Network Automation.

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management software for networking equipment providers. Six of the ten largest global networking equipment providers are Tail-f Systems’ customers. Users of Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

Tail-f Systems’ TailPacks are libraries of software that help developers get applications up and running faster. TailPacks reduce development and testing time, minimize project risk, and decrease the time developers spend integrating third party components.

IP Infusion’s ZebOS Network Platform is a scalable, robust and standards-based Layer 2 and Layer 3 carrier-class switching and routing software solution that allows OEMs to rapidly add networking capabilities to their new or existing lines of communications products. ZebOS’ platform-independent architecture enables OEMs to choose from an impressive array of protocols and solutions to add to their equipment offerings.

“Tail-f Systems’ ConfD is the leading solution for on-device configuration management,” said Shane Rigby, Vice President Global Sales, IP Infusion Inc. “Now our mutual customers will be able to bring their products to market faster while leveraging two best-in-class solutions.”

The ZebOS-enabled Control TailPacks allow ConfD to manage three of IP Infusion’s ZebOS routing protocol modules. A TailPack allows an operator to configure, monitor, and issue administrative actions to the ZebOS module.

“We are excited to expand our TailPack solutions with the release of the ZebOS-enabled Control TailPacks,” said Urban Lindegren, VP of Worldwide Sales, Tail-f Systems. “IP Infusion’s ZebOS routing protocol solutions are the gold standard in our industry and I know our customers will appreciate new tools to facilitate the integration between our products.”

The modules supported by the family of ZebOS-enabled Control TailPacks are the Base Control module, RIP Routing Protocol module, and the OSPF Routing Protocol module. Individual routing protocol modules must be acquired from IP Infusion for a TailPack to work. For more information, please visit Tail-f Systems’ website at www.tail-f.com and IP Infusion’s website at www.ipinfusion.com.

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management software for networking equipment providers. Six of the ten largest global networking equipment providers are Tail-f Systems customers. Users of Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

Tail-f Systems, ConfD, and TailPack are trademarks of Tail-f Systems. IP Infusion and ZebOS are either registered trademarks or trademarks of IP Infusion Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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“We selected ConfD because it was best in its class and we are pleased to see Tail-f Systems continuously improving the product with these exciting new capabilities,” said Phil Levy, P. Eng., Manager, Software Engineering, RuggedCom Inc.

The size and complexity of modern networks and management protocols like NETCONF often require ConfD to perform multiple operations in parallel. Support for Multicore allows ConfD to use multiple cores or CPUs to distribute processing and maximize performance.

Tail-f Systems’ TailPacks are libraries of software that help developers get applications up and running faster. TailPacks reduce development and testing time, minimize project risk, and decrease the time developers spend integrating third party components. TailPacks include source code, documentation, test examples, and a liberal usage license. As part of the program, developers will be encouraged to contribute patches and enhancements to TailPacks.

Continuous availability is a critical requirement for carrier-grade networking equipment and ConfD already includes many capabilities that enable developers to build highly resilient systems. With this announcement, ConfD supports in-service upgrades, allowing changes to the data model to be made without restarting the ConfD application.

“Our customers operate in dynamic and highly competitive markets,” said Håkan Millroth, CEO, Tail-f Systems. “With these new capabilities, ConfD customers can develop more powerful configuration management systems and bring them to market faster.”

Support for multicore and in-service data model upgrades will be available in ConfD 3.2 this April. The first of many TailPacks, the Linux Control TailPack is also available in April. Tail-f Systems will release subsequent TailPacks throughout the year to address integration with other popular operating systems, middleware, and protocols.

About Tail-f Systems

Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management software for networking equipment providers. Six of the ten largest global networking equipment providers are Tail-f Systems’ customers. Users of Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

The MEF, as the defining body for Carrier Ethernet, is a global industry alliance comprising more than 160 organizations including telecommunications service providers, cable MSOs, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductor vendors and testing organizations.

“The increasing complexity of carrier and enterprise networks and demand for new services is driving the need for robust configuration management solutions,” said Nan Chen, President, MEF. “We welcome Tail-f Systems to the MEF and look forward to their valuable contributions to the forum.”

“We are pleased to become a member of the MEF, focusing our effort on the ongoing work in the OAM area.” said Håkan Millroth, CEO, Tail-f Systems. “Our experience from working with network equipment providers should allow us to make significant contributions to the forum.”

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management software for network equipment vendors. Customers using Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

In Military Embedded Systems’ third-annual look at commercial technologies coming to a battlefield, Tail-f Systems is highlighted a solution for network management software opening up standards through support for NETCONF and SNMP. The availability of such standards can give a real edge to battlefield networks and directly benefitting the warfighter in programs such as the Navy’s Aegis/Common Processing System.

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Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies’ new family of high-performance switching systems offers unique traffic management capabilities and a management system that includes a powerful Web 2.0-style graphical user interface.

“Tail-f Systems’ software enables us to quickly build a state-of-the-art management system including a graphical interface based on Web 2.0 technologies,” said Max Arbo, Senior Product Manager for Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies. After carefully analyzing the alternatives, we chose Tail-f Systems because they have a proven track record of helping equipment vendors build management systems on time and to specification.”

Tail-f Systems provides a full family of products to build and extend network management systems. ConfD, the company’s on-device configuration management toolkit, renders NETCONF, CLI, SNMP and Web interfaces from a single data model and includes a lightweight embedded database. Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies will take advantage of many of ConfD’s modules.

“Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies’ products are widely deployed throughout the US Department of Defense (DoD) and a number of NATO forces worldwide,” said Håkan Millroth, CEO, Tail-f Systems. “They deliver key technology for the most demanding applications and we are confident that ConfD will help them to continue to lead in their market.”

About Tail-f Systems
Tail-f Systems is the leading developer of on-device configuration management software for network equipment vendors. Customers using Tail-f Systems’ technology radically reduce their time-to-market and benefit from carrier-grade implementations of NETCONF, CLI, Web, and SNMP interfaces. Tail-f is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.tail-f.com.

About Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies
For over fifty years, Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies has provided communications devices to the US Department of Defense, Homeland Security and other government agencies. Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies manufactures networking equipment that economizes bandwidth and extends the drive distances of tactical communications devices. This equipment is used throughout the US Department of Defense and other government agencies to support the transition to IP networking, particularly in areas where bandwidth-intense network traffic is restricted by a single satellite or radio signal. Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies manufactures the AN/FCC-100, the TAC Multiservice Access Concentrator series, PacketAssure Service Delivery Managers and NRZ/CDI/FOM converters, including the CV-MCU2 converter/multiplexer. For more information, contact Ultra Electronics DNE Technologies at 1-800-370-4485 or visit them on the web at www.ultra-dne.com.