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Looking to meet remote users' demand for faster access into corporate networks, Shiva this week will release an upgrade to its remote-access operating system, fortified with bandwidth-on-demand capabilities and support for ISDN.
The new release, ShivOS 4.0, will bolster the performance of Shiva Corp.'s systems, the most widely used for dial-up remote access, according to market researchers. ShivOS is the software that runs Shiva's flagship remote-access servers, including LanRover/Plus and WebRover.
ShivOS 4.0 will let users of LanRover and WebRover install internal ISDN Basic Rate Interface cards, which, in addition to providing dial-up remote access, can be used for dial-out connectivity to other LANs.
With ISDN becoming more widely available to telecommuters and those who work at small branch offices, a growing number of remote-access vendors have recently added ISDN support for their systems in the past year.
Shiva's new software also supports the Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol, an Internet Engineering Task Force standard for creating a virtual fat pipe between sites, accomplished by aggregating telephone lines or ISDN "B" channels, said Michael Feinstein, senior director of product management at Shiva, Burlington, Mass.
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