________________________________________________________________________ HP IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UPDATE ... for Hewlett-Packard's Telecom Customers * March 1993 * ________________________________________________________________________ INDEX OF ARTICLES: > HP Hires BELLCORE'S O'Rourke as Top Telecom Strategist - Move to Support HP's Increased Telecom Presence > Telekom Malaysia to Get Digital Monitoring System > HP Wins in Norway Three Ways! ************************************************************************ HP Hires BELLCORE'S O'Rourke as Top Telecom Strategist - Move to Support HP's Increased Telecom Presence ************************************************************************ PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 16, 1993 -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that John J. O'Rourke has joined the company in the newly created position of general manager, Telecommunications Operations, and chief telecommunications architect. In his new post, O'Rourke will lead development of an integrated strategy to increase significantly HP's position in the telecommunications industry. He reports to Joel S. Birnbaum, HP vice president for R&D and director, HP Laboratories. O'Rourke will chair HP's Telecommunications Council and will work closely with senior managers of HP Laboratories and the Test and Measurement and Computer Systems organizations. O'Rourke and the council will identify new opportunities in the telecommunications industry and plan technology strategies. Before joining HP, O'Rourke was assistant vice president, network architecture, and chief architect at Bellcore, a research facility funded by the seven regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs). He directed the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) program as well as the Information Networking Architecture program on behalf of the RBOCs. O'Rourke has more than 25 years' experience directing telecommunications programs at Bellcore and Bell Laboratories. He directed planning and development teams for several widely deployed operations support systems and led Bellcore's Switching Technology Analysis organization. In addition, he led the investigation of the major public telecommunication network failures of 1991 and was a frequent public speaker on network reliability issues. O'Rourke chairs the Steering Committee of the International Switching Symposium (ISS). "HP intends to be a key player in the telecommunications industry, and John O'Rourke will help lead us to that position," said Birnbaum. "Many exciting opportunities exist today in telecommunications -- particularly in bringing access to information of all types to people in their homes, offices and on the move. "HP is well-positioned to expand its several roles as a supplier of information appliances, networking systems, and service platforms and components, both directly and with other leading suppliers," Birnbaum added. Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of measurement and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP has 92,600 employees -- 57,600 of whom work in the United States -- and had revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. # # # ************************************************************************ Telekom Malaysia to Get Digital Monitoring System ************************************************************************ HP Sales Malaysia with Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) won a US $4M contract to install and implement a digital performance system (DPMS) for Telekom Malaysia (TM). Hewlett Packard was the major sub-contractor and will be actively involved in the management and implementation of the project with SCS and TM. Implementation has been scheduled to be complete by August 1994. DPMS will help to provide continuous monitoring on the transmission performance to TM's network. The contract includes the installation of seven HP9000 processors at the national control centers (NCC) and six regional control centers (RCC). A total of 30 386-based PCs, linked to the RCCs, will also be installed nationwide. The DPMS system is based on HP's E3560 digital performance monitoring system which integrates continuous performance monitoring, alarm collection and report generation. The DPMS can detect failures and predict possible breakdown, allowing TM to take proactive measures before critical or network failure occurs. The application software is based on X-Windows, OpenView and HP-UX. ************************************************************************ HP Wins in Norway Three Ways! ************************************************************************ >>>> HP WIN # 1! Norwegian Telecom Choses OpenView! Norwegian Telecom has chosen OpenView as their strategic platform for management of their internal Unix-based computer network. Their network consists mainly of HP, SUN and IBM Unix computers and Cisco routers. 30 OpenView Network Node Manager licenses will be used for management of the distributed network. HP OpenView is chosen because it is viewed as "the best way to DME", and its wide usability (CPM/CNM/TMN - SNMP/OSI). The competitors were SUN Net Manager, DEC Mcc and NMC 3000. >>>> HP WIN # 2! HP 9000 is chosen as a preferred Unix platform for Norwegian Telecom. Norwegian Telecom has chosen HP 9000 workstations and systems and HP 700RX X-stations as preferred products in their migration strategy to an open system based infrastructure. HP is chosen because of our focus on telecom, commitment to standards and price/performance leading products. The other Unix platforms already in this list are SUN, IBM Unix computers and Tandberg X-stations. The agreement is set up between Norwegian Telecom and HP's Channel Partner TBK (fully owned by Norwegian Telecom), and opens a whole new market segment for HP's Unix-systems. >>>> HP WIN # 3! Norwegian Telecom runs Sybase on HP. Norwegian Telecom has bought 10 HP 9000/800s running the Sybase database for the first phase of a new Customer Service project. HP 9000 was chosen because of its performance scalability, software and hardware reliability and price/performance. For further information on these solutions, contact your local Hewlett- Packard telecom sales representative. THE END