Colubris Networks, a leading provider of WiFi Hot Spot solutions and VPN-based secure wireless networking solutions, today announced that Micromuse (NASDAQ: MUSE), the leading provider of service and business assurance software, has certified Colubris’ Wi-Fi wireless LAN solutions as Netcool® ReadyTM. Colubris has been a Micromuse Alliance partner since October 2002 and is the first WiFi solutions company to receive the Micromuse Netcool Ready designation.
The integration of Netcool’s IT service and availability solutions with the Colubris product line enhances Colubris’ capabilities for monitoring wireless infrastructure, and allows network and IT operations teams to address problems before they affect network uptime. Colubris’ award-winning Wi-Fi wireless LAN solutions incorporate security features such as VPN, enhanced security and firewall technologies in a one-box solution that is easy to deploy and cost-effective to manage. Additionally, Colubris works closely with Internet and communications service providers to deliver hot-spot solutions to mobile professionals. Many of Colubris’s enterprise and service provider customers are already using Netcool solutions, making the integrated offering a natural fit to help enhance management of existing network infrastructure for these organizations.
“The integration of Colubris and Micromuse’s Netcool solutions benefits our mutual customers by enabling further network monitoring capabilities to ensure that systems and services are running at peak performance,” said Jim Ciociolo, vice president of business development and carrier sales of Colubris Networks. “While Colubris currently makes the industry’s most trusted wireless LAN products, when combined with Netcool, the solution further enhances value for customers by enabling them to prevent costly network and application downtime.”
“We are pleased that Colubris’s WiFi solutions have received the Netcool Ready designation as this integrated offering will provide customers with increased performance and availability,” said Darin Layman, vice president of alliances and solutions marketing at Micromuse. “This integrated offering will not only help our customers improve quality of service, but also reduce their total cost of ownership.”
About the Micromuse AllianceTM Program
The Micromuse Alliance Program provides Micromuse and its Alliance partners with a formal program to cooperatively pursue business, technical and marketing opportunities. The goals of the program are to provide flexibility, choice, and quick time-to-market for our customers through the development of integrated, viable solutions. Since its launch in 2000, the Micromuse Alliance Program has welcomed over 100 software and hardware vendors who offer best-of-breed solutions that are complementary to the Netcool suite of applications.
About Netcool
Micromuse’s Netcool® software suite provides businesses with the assurance that their networks, services and applications are working. By allowing our customers to see what’s happening throughout the infrastructure in realtime, Netcool applications enable them to respond to problems before network-based business services are affected.
Netcool suite applications install out-of-the-box, deploy rapidly and scale as networks grow. Micromuse’s flagship, Netcool/OMNIbusTM application, includes a library of off-the-shelf software modules that allow our customers to collect and consolidate fault information from more than 1,000 environments spanning voice and IP, cable/broadband, switches and routers, and enterprise management systems.
About Micromuse
Micromuse Inc. (Nasdaq: MUSE) is the leading provider of service and business assurance software solutions. The Netcool® software suite provides organizations with the assurance that their IT systems are supporting and driving profits 24 hours a day. Unlike traditional infrastructure management systems, Netcool solutions provide realtime end-to-end visibility and accurate troubleshooting from a business perspective. Such business intelligence allows organizations to respond to problems quickly, streamline workflow processes and improve business uptime. Micromuse customers include AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Charles Schwab, Deutsche Telekom, Digex, EarthLink, GE Appliances, ITC^DeltaCom, J.P. Morgan Chase, T-Mobile and Verizon. Headquarters are located at 139 Townsend Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94107. Tel: (415) 538-9090. The Web site is at www.micromuse.com
About Colubris Networks
Colubris Networks is a global leader in providing highly secure, manageable and cost-effective Wireless LAN solutions for enterprise networks and carrier deployments. Its award-winning Wi-Fi certified product family of purpose-built enterprise and public access offerings seamlessly integrates into existing customer networks, providing maximum cost-effectiveness and management simplicity. Colubris embeds strong tools such as Virtual Private Networking, enhanced security and firewall technologies into its open, industry-standard solutions. For more information visit the company Web site at www.colubris.com or contact us at info@colubris.com.
