New Yuma Tools(tm) provides NETCONF/YANG development environment for next generation network configuration and management

SANTA CRUZ, CA, December 4, 2009 – InterWorking Labs creators of network products for voice/data/video (triple play) networks, today announced Yuma Tools, a complete development environment to create sophisticated configuration and network management solutions for network equipment manufacturers. Based on the new IETF standard NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) and the YANG data modeling language, Yuma Tools provides the answer to configuring and managing rapidly changing, diverse networks.

Software developers use Yuma Tools to create a standards-based alternative to the Command Line Interface (CLI) for configuring, updating, and managing network devices. With Yuma Tools, developers create a NETCONF server in the managed device and use the YANG data modeling language to define and structure management information. Yuma Tools provides all software components and tools, training, and technical support to rapidly deploy high quality NETCONF/YANG product implementations and accelerate time to market.

How Can Yuma Tools Benefit Network Equipment Manufacturers?

With Yuma Tools, Network Equipment Manufacturers can:

• Reduce development time by 80% and get products to market faster
• Reduce development cost and overhead by by 50% making products more profitable
• Reap the benefits of organized, structured, data

How Can Yuma Tools Benefit Network Operators?

• Use standardized scripts for configuring and managing devices, reducing maintenance costs
• Subscribe to a central configuration mechanism, reducing errors
• Achieve device independence with a consistent interface across all devices, reducing the learning curve

Yuma Tools: Questions and Answers

As part of a complete solutions strategy, InterWorking Labs is moving beyond point product solutions that have served our customers in the past. We will continue active development, enhancement, and support of these products. In today’s environment, however, our customers need a partner to support their efforts in the design, development, prototyping, test, and release of their products. InterWorking Labs will be there to offer the complete solution.

InterWorking Labs has taken a number of steps to preserve its objectivity as a test supplier. First, we are creating an Advisory Board that will include our competitors in the NETCONF/YANG stack business, as well as independent consultants. Many of our competitors are respected technologists with intimate knowledge of both NETCONF and YANG. We are collectively inspired to resolve ambiguities in the specification and clarify areas of misunderstanding to assure interoperability and a positive experience for our customers. Secondly, InterWorking Labs has a “firewall” between the stack development group and the test suite development group. The groups work in different geographic locations and compete with each other, like other product groups. We expect the test suite group to have many customers and to treat all of its customers in the same way with equal access to bug fixes, new releases, and technical support.

Yes. We hope to announce the new Adisory Board in a few months. We are also actively participating in the IETF by contributing feedback on the proposed standards.

InterWorking Labs has licensed the NETCONF and Yang technology from an R&D company. The technology has been productized and ported to an internal platform and tested by InterWorking Labs engineers.

Yes. The Yuma Test Suite will be announced and available in conjunction with the NETCONF/YANG interoperability test summit in Anaheim March 19 & 20, 2010.

Yuma Tools is available now from InterWorking Labs. A complimentary test suite, Yuma Tests will be available in conjunction with the NETCONF/YANG Test Summit in Anaheim, March 19-20, 2010.

InterWorking Labs provides products and solutions for network test and emulation:
SilverCreek, the SNMP Test Suite
Mini Maxwell, the Portable Network Emulator
Maxwell Tester, for TCP/IP/UDP testing and network emulation

About InterWorking Labs

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