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January - 2007 - issue > Company Profile
Architecting Devices, Sans the 's'
Aritra Bhattacharya
Simplifying the Enterprise Edge’ says the NetDevices Network’s tagline. It’s product-the Services Gateway (SG) does pretty much the same. You might question how, and the explanation too comes easy. Let’s begin with a little backgrounder.
While Cisco, Nortel, Huawei and the likes were riding high on the success of their fleet of networking products-namely routers, switches, gateways, hubs, bandwidth managers et al., three Cisco employees realized the need for a combined box that would incorporate the functions of all the said devices. With this thought in mind, and to fill the impending gap in the networking space, they (Seenu Banda, Rob Haragan and Jeff Kidd) founded NetDevices in 2003. After two years of research was born its first product-the Services Gateway, the India center accounting for over 90 percent of the R&D behind it. The product removes the hassles of dealing with a plethora of devices, and the problems attached therein. Consider this.
Imagine a remote branch office of a company going off the global networking radar. Since a plethora of devices, as said earlier, enable access to the network, a fault in any one of them could have caused the breakdown. “An engineer would be required go all the way from the head office to fix the error. And for all you know, it might have required just a simple software re-configuration,” says Uday Birje, Country Manager & Vice President – India & ASEAN.
The Services Gateway comes in handy in such a situation. The engineer can pinpoint the error from the head office itself; the architecture allows him to log in to the remote system even in the event of a complete breakdown, a power connection being the only necessity. This saves valuable resources, as the requirement of traveling to the location is ruled out.
On the flip side, the bundling of all services into a single box arrests significantly the possibility of introducing significant tweaking options for each of the components, but Birje clarifies the stand thus: “We don’t claim to build the best router, or the best switches. Our USP is a gateway product that combines all, much like a PDA does.”
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