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- Novell's LANalyzer for NetWare Delivers New Level of Customer Support
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- New Management Product Gives Resellers, Integrators, Service Providers
- Powerful Tool for Supporting NetWare Networks
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- May 11, 1992 -- Novell Inc. and several technical
- service organizations today outlined ways in which Novell's new
- LANalyzer for NetWare product improves the network computing industry's
- ability to support NetWare customers.
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- Because it's both affordable and easy to use, LANalyzer for NetWare is
- suited for smaller businesses, departmental administrators or their
- support organizations. With LANalyzer for NetWare, customers can record
- network activity and send it on diskette to their support provider,
- where the file can be replayed and analyzed, revealing the network's
- problem areas. Service providers can also view a customer's network in
- realtime over a modem link, isolating and correcting problems as they
- occur.
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- "The introduction of LANalyzer for NetWare adds a cost-effective,
- top-notch support tool for our customers," said Richard King, Novell's
- vice president of service and support. "Networking customers have been
- looking for a product that's sophisticated enough to provide high-level
- network analysis, while retaining the ease of use and affordability of
- more conventional networking utilities. LANalyzer for NetWare provides
- high functionality while delivering on price and simplicity. We feel
- LANalyzer for NetWare will help grow the entire network computing
- industry by making NetWare networks more manageable and supportable."
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- Service Industry Support for LANalyzer for NetWare
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- Resellers provide most of the front-line support for NetWare customers.
- Howard Lubert, president of HEL Inc. and vice chairman of the Local Area
- Network Dealers Association (LANDA) welcomed the announcement of
- LANalyzer for NetWare. "Network management has become a critical
- component in the LAN resellers' arsenal," Lubert said. "LANalyzer for
- NetWare from Novell will provide most network administrators and
- resellers with a practical tool to manage the network with almost no
- investment in high-tech tools or training. This will undoubtedly improve
- the service industry's ability to support NetWare users. I can't
- imagine any reseller not being excited about this opportunity."
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- Novell requires its higher-level resellers to have one or more Certified
- NetWare Engineers (CNEs) on staff. CNEs are the network "mechanics" who
- actually diagnose and correct network malfunctions. According to Stuart
- Pastman, Chair of the CNE Professional Association and Managing Partner
- of CGI Systems Inc., "LANalyzer for NetWare is one of the most exciting
- network management tools to emerge from the industry in a long time. I
- think it will definitively expand the scope and capabilities of CNEs who
- are using it to support their NetWare customers." Novell will provide
- training on LANalyzer for NetWare geared to the needs of CNEs.
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- The Technical Support Alliance (TSA) is an affiliation of hardware and
- software vendors formed to provide customers with coordinated post-sales
- support for multivendor computing environments. Novell is providing a
- free copy of LANalyzer for NetWare to each TSA member in an effort to
- establish a common standard for unified network support. "Making
- LANalyzer for NetWare available to the entire TSA gives us a common
- denominator to use in evaluating network performance," said Clark
- Catelain, senior vice president, product development / technical
- services at Gupta Technologies, Inc., a TSA member. "We expect the
- product to become extremely popular among NetWare users, partly because
- they can capture files of network activity and send it to a TSA support
- facility for analysis. There's no other product that's as affordable
- and functional."
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- "We're gratified to see many service organizations and systems
- integrators finding customer-oriented uses for LANalyzer for NetWare,"
- said Duane Murray, vice president and general manager of Novell's
- Network Management Products Division. "This product is based on input
- from literally thousands of users and support providers. They wanted a
- network analysis product that's affordable and easy-to-use, while
- retaining many of the advanced features that have made the original
- LANalyzer the most widely used product of its kind. We feel LANalyzer
- for NetWare delivers on these expectations."
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- LANalyzer for NetWare is an affordable, hardware-independent network
- monitoring and analysis system. Its graphical user interface provides
- an easily understood view of network statistics, and it features a
- unique point-and-click filtering system that minimizes the networking
- expertise needed to use the product. Its software includes specialized
- tests and diagnostic tools for the NetWare environment. The product
- also includes complete seven-layer protocol decodes for all versions of
- NetWare, as well as AppleTalk Phases 1 and 2. LANalyzer for NetWare can
- run on any DOS-Windows workstation (80386 or better) and can analyze any
- Ethernet network (standard, thin-net or 10BASE-T).
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- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software company, the
- developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating
- system products including NetWare and DR DOS. Novell's NetWare network
- computing products manage and control the sharing of services, data and
- applications among computer workgroups, departmental networks and
- business-wide information systems.
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