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Asentria Releases New Generation of Remote Site Manager

April 1, 2001 (Seattle, WA) - Asentria proudly announces the release of its new SNMP-Link Model SL61 Remote Site Manager, with initial shipping scheduled for May 2001. The new network-peripheral hardware device has been engineered to provide comprehensive remote monitoring and management services to the IT Manager with equipment in remote locations.

The new SL61 Remote Site Manager serves three important functions: remote environmental monitor, remote device monitor and terminal server. The SL61 enables a network manager to monitor and handle a variety of conditions that could cripple critical business operations, without his having to actually visit each site. The SL61 connects the network operations center (NOC) with devices and conditions that are normally outside the scope of a network management system: remote environmental conditions and devices equipped with only contact closure outputs or serial ports. It provides inexpensive, effective insurance for any remote or unmanned equipment rooms or facilities.

In response to customer demand, Asentria has also developed a self-contained, external environmental monitoring unit to simplify environmental monitoring with the SNMP-Link. As many as 16 of these units, called EventSensors™, can be daisy-chained to extend into separate rooms or areas, and then easily connected to the SL61 for connection to Ethernet, phone line, Internet or wireless system. EventSensors come in five configurations featuring built-in temperature, humidity, airflow and noise sensors.

"For some companies, environmental monitoring falls low on the list of priorities for their network operations -- until they have their first equipment damage from heat or water intrusion," said Tim Stoner, President. "We designed the SL61 to be an economical and simple solution to remote facilities monitoring, but we didn't stop there. Its versatility also enables IT Managers to control a wide array of non-SNMP-enabled equipment, basically anything with a serial port or contact closure connection. So IT Managers can monitor and manage equipment on which their operations may depend utterly, such as power backup supplies, air conditioners, PBXs, microwave or cellular transmitters, and much more."

When connected to a serial port, the SL61 intelligently interprets text strings and executes appropriate alarm responses. This feature is useful in a variety of situations from recognizing equipment alarm states to 911-call detection and tracing. In response to a contact closure alarm, the SL61 can be configured to take as many as dozen different actions, including sending emails, callouts to pagers, SNMP traps to desktops or even setting off a local buzzer.

The SL61 is also a two port or four-port terminal server. Network managers can control the SL61, and any RS-232 device connected to it, from their NOC without dispatching a technician to the site. Alarm messages can be delivered via modem, cellular modem, pager, SNMP trap, or E-mail. The SL61 is compatible with all SNMP management software systems.

The Company

Asentria develops remote site monitoring and telemanagement solutions that enable providers of critical communications infrastructure to more efficiently and reliably run their networks. Asentria’s products help ensure quality of service and lower operational costs, while making it easier to provision, maintain and support remote equipment. Our strategic solutions fit both large and small communication networks and provide high-value, cost-effective and competitive differentiators to our customers.

Asentria helps administrators cost-effectively manage their call reporting data and remote site infrastructure, while extending confidence and security to ensure availability, integrity and performance. Asentria enables administrators to avoid failures from poor performing equipment that threaten end-user service expectations, while providing better control to predict the performance of remote infrastructure. These new levels of protection shield end-users from remote site equipment failure. Our service provider and enterprise customers trust their remote equipment sites to Asentria. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.