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But what do we mean by “control
and management via the cloud?” Re-
call this requirement: “cloud-based
management of the entire system was
deemed essential.” Without centralized
configuration, management, monitoring
and support, a distributed system of
this size is not practicable.
The recently introduced New Rock
Cloud, to be marketed and hosted
in North America as YoubiquITy by
NetGen Communications, works with
a software agent embedded in each
gateway and PBX to give the user
complete control over access to the
device via a token-passing procedure.
Cloud is used for NAT traversal,
which can be a challenge in China, and
gives the Element Management System
(EMS) a proxy IP address and port for
trouble-free access to the fielded de-
vices, supporting, for example, direct
communications between offices.
The software agent is used to bind
devices to the cloud platform. The EMS
will scan and add devices in batch mode
using the device’s user ID and authoriza-
tion token. The administrator can man-
age all the devices via auto-configuration
or from the management GUI.
There is also a monitoring feature
offering alarming, statistics and a
query feature.
This system was sold by one of
New Rock’s larger channel partners,
but as large as they are, they aren’t
large enough to install 5,000 systems
in any reasonable period of time. New
Rock worked with them to recruit hun-
dreds of channel partners in China to
assist with this task.
Everyone, especially Deppon, was
and is a winner.
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Michael B. Coffee is CEO of NetGen
Communications.
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