Sheer Intros BOS for IP NetworksSheer Intros BOS for IP Networks

LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Sheer Networks, the leading provider of award winning service management solutions for communication service providers and large enterprises, today unveils the innovative functionality of its SheerTM BOS solution for large IP environments. The SheerTM BOS is designed to help providers support and control their IP Network Services. It enables them to dramatically reduce operational costs and increase revenues, while raising customer satisfaction and improving service quality.

The SheerT BOS provides customers with a solution that addresses service assurance and service configuration for next generation networks. It offers integrated network and service auto-discovery for network modeling and intelligent fault analysis... This enables fully correlated management of global scale IP networks, supporting millions of subscribers and customers. In addition, the SheerTM BOS provides a highly flexible network configuration and activation engine allowing customers to introduce new features and services quickly, thereby converting prospective subscribers into paying customers.

Sheer Networks latest product release, which was rolled out in Q3 2003, has already been chosen by three new tier 1 customers in Asia and North America. It addresses one of the crucial pain points faced by providers today. That is, how to rapidly isolate and resolve problems of complex multi-protocol, multi-vendor networks. SheerT BOS enables customers to locate the true source of their network and service faults instantly. It provides them with immediate root-cause and service impact analysis of various faults, using a real time model of the network and multi-layer topology.

The SheerTM BOS proactively discovers and isolates network problems, generating alarms when it detects a fault developing. It automatically spots changes in the network, identifying in seconds which customers have been affected by the alteration and how. This dramatically decreases the time it takes for carriers to respond to network failures and reduces outage times for subscribers. In turn shrinking operational costs and reducing churn.

"A typical operator of an IP network can experience thousands of alarms over hundreds of thousands of ports each working day," said Steve Rein, CEO of Sheer Networks. "The unique capabilities and scalability of the SheerTM BOS bring these numbers down by three orders of magnitude. This is a tremendous cost saving, particularly if you add to this, the solution's ability to correlate alarms within elements, between elements, across domains and for different network layers."

Sheer Networks Inc.