January 30 2001
Newsletter No.12

- IT & Telecom Networking at the National Highway Fund, the Water Supply Corp., the Administrative Courts, etc.
- News of Enterasys and of Nx Networks.

Now that the festive period is over, and after wishing you once again happiness and success for the New Year, we wish to inform you about some of our activities since our last Newsletter.

Thus, among other, smaller projects, we have also been commissioned with:

- The extension of the Hospitals project to include renovation of their telephony infrastructure (http://www.cbnetworks.gr/en/nea/120101.html)

- The complete electrical installation and IT & Telecom Networking infrastructure for c. 200 workstations at the new Headquarters building of the National Highway Fund (ΤΕΟ) (http://www.cbnetworks.gr/en/nea/150101.html).

- The LAN and WAN IT & Telecom Network of the Athens Water Supply and Sewage Corporation, interconnecting c. 250 workstations located in 18 warehouses and 4 buildings in various parts of the country(http://www.cbnetworks.gr/en/nea/170101.html)

-The integrated IT & Telecom networking infrastructure at the Administrative Courts of the First Instance in Athens (http://www.cbnetworks.gr/en/nea/190101.html)

- The integrated IT & Telecom networking infrastructure at the Technical Dept., and the Municipal Building of the Municipality of Kalamata (http://www.cbnetworks.gr/en/nea/220101.html)

- IT & Telecom Networking Infrastructure at the new Ward of the Medical Centre of Athens (http://www.cbnetworks.gr/gr/nea/240101.html)

On the international front, Enterasys Networks proved its mettle in enterprise-class switching in a test conducted by InternetWeek (http://www.internetweek.com/). The test included packet classification, prioritisation, quality of service (QoS), multicast IP traffic and routing over WAN interfaces, etc. Fault tolerance and redundancy also played a big part in the test plan. Enterasys Networks, an affiliate of Cabletron Systems, showed up with a complete end-to-end solution to the test requirements. Read all about the test and its results at http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev012201.htm.

One more interesting piece of news is mentioned again by InternetWeek, regarding the announcement of a new APRISMA (another CABLETRON affiliate) security module in its Spectrum network management software suite. Spectrum Security Manager creates a map of network topology that includes security elements such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls and antivirus software. Spectrum Security Manager integrates with Spectrum version 6.0 and runs on Windows NT/2000 and Solaris. The relevant article can be found at http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20010126S0003 .

Nx Networks (for which we are also value-added distributors in Greece) announced that its Nx 3000 Series D secured gateway router has been certified for all Safety and Emissions standards compliance, including FCC Part 15, Class A EMI/EMC Certification and UL 1950 (US) Safety Compliance specification. The relevant announcement is at http://www.nxnetworks.com/NxNetworks/NxPress/NxPrsRel100/

We shall not take more of your time to day. Please allow us to revert with more news at a later time.