Solstice Endorcements


Bay Networks, Inc. Supports The Solstice Enterprise Management Strategy

Bay Networks, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of switched internetworking solutions, today announced support for Sun's Solstice Enterprise Management strategy and reinforced the company's commitment to the Solstice product line.

According to Ron Schmidt, Bay Networks' Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Bay Networks represents a significantly large installed base of Solstice SunNet Manager.

"As one of our premier distributed management solutions, Optivity for SunNet Manager is deployed by a high number of users in our installed base."

"Bay Networks is very excited to be working with Sun to provide seamless integration between Solstice SunNet Manager and Bay Networks' internetworking solutions. Offering a set of unique applications for managing the network's physical infrastructure, Optivity - coupled with SunNet Manager - represents a powerful tool that contributes to a complete enterprise management solution for both our growing installed base and future customers," continued Schmidt.

Optivity 5.1 for SunNet Manager brings Bay Networks' SynOptics LattisSphere network management to the SunNet Manager platform. Optivity provides the tools needed to manage Bay Networks network fabric and the Sun system environment as a single cohesive system.

Providing seamless integration with Sun's SunNet Manager system, Optivity allows network managers to manage geographically-dispersed networks from a single station. Local and remote sites also can be managed, including hubs, routers, bridges and switches. Optivity's distributed architecture delivers a scalable solution for any size network, providing the same high level of management performance as networks grow, while protecting existing management investments.

For more information contact:

Bay Networks, Inc.
8 Federal Street
Billerica, MA 01845
(508)436-3636