The occasion was also marked by introduction of several new products for Rolm 9750 PABX users. IBM has bought the Netcenter product line from US West Inc’s Network Systems Inc, which includes the Graphic Network Monitor, a complement to IBM’s NetView that gives network management operators a graphical depiction of the network, highlighting its status on a colour graphics screen. It has a new test facility for NetView/PC application developers, and has signed up with four outside firms for new networking product developments. TSB International Inc of Toronto, Canada has a program called HubView/PC, based on NetView/PC, which supports a wide range of PABXs including those from Rolm, AT&T, Northern Telecom and NEC. It uses NetView/PC to report alarms and alerts to NetView and IBM, which markets the MS-DOS version, is to help TSB do an OS/2 version. Applied Computing Devices Inc, Terre Haute, Indiana has a Unix-bas ed network management system to assist telephone carriers in manag ing voice, data and video networks, and IBM is to fund development of versions for its AIX variant of Unix, and the programs will be en hanced to include a NetView inter face for some network devices. International TeleManagement Inc, Vienna, Virginia has a network management information system for a variety of devices, and that too will go up under AIX and interface to NetView, and will be used by IBM’s National Service Division as one of its network services. And Carl Vanderbeek & Associates in San Juan Capistrano, California has a tool that dramatically simplifies the process of building NetView/PC applications, cutting it to days from months, and IBM will take it. Details on new Rolm lines – page 2.
