We have heard a lot about policy management from many vendors but end users are demanding a solid standards based solution before deploying this new technology. With Nortel Networks' standards-based approach in Optivity Policy Services we expect these perceptions to change.
Plans call for supporting additional standards in future releases.
This makes it easy to assign service levels to network applications and users, allowing enterprises to allocate network resources more efficiently to maximize network use and meet business requirements. A variety of details can be set in OPS to determine what service level applications and users receive across the network. Other key features in the 1.0 release include the ability to assign policies to users through dynamic IP addresses, to differentiate Web applications based on URL, and support of multivendor networks. We are looking for a policy solution to help us provide these services needed to our users and are pleased with what we hear about Optivity Policy Services. The second release of Optivity Policy Services, OPS 2.0, is scheduled for delivery at the end of 1999.