Available For Immediate Release
Newpoint Releases Compass 5.0
Salem, New Hampshire USA, October 3, 2001 - Newpoint Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of network-management solutions for Satellite, VDSL, Broadcast and Internet applications, announced the release of version 5.0 of its NMS suite of products today.
President and CEO of Newpoint, Paul Houle, commented, "This release represents the largest addition of new technology to Newpoint CompassT since its introduction. Based on requirements from our customers, Compass now includes many new features and has been expanded to support applications with more than 100,000 devices." Houle further stated "This expanded capability, combined with our existing ability for replication and our ability to process 6,000 transactions per second, per node make the Newpoint NMS suite a fit for the very largest of NMS applications."
What's New in Newpoint CompassT 5.0
-SNMP Agent capabilities with highly integrated seamless support for HP OpenView
-ODBC support, which allows selection of any ODBC compliant relational database for storage of Alarm, Event and Trend data
-Updated Scripting language that now includes Scheduling functions
-On-Line Help documentation
-Extended device name and description fields
Houle concluded, "CompassT 5.0, with its out-of-the-box functionality, reconfirms our commitment to our mission of creating service excellence by managing network convergence for our customers."
About Newpoint
Headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire, Newpoint Technologies is a leader in Satellite and Terrestrial Network Management Systems for control of data, Internet, Broadcast, telecom, and hybrid networks. Newpoint CompassT is the foundation of Newpoint's suite of products. Other Newpoint products include the recently introduced Newpoint PathfinderT which provides centralized Audio-Video router management in broadcast facilities, Newpoint EclipseT which provides automated carrier line-up of satellite traffic, and Newpoint MercuryT, a remote-site manager for satellite and terrestrial applications.