Novell And Partners Announce First Nest Product Plans
Canon, Cheyenne, Ricoh and Over 35 Vendors to Integrate NetWare into Next Generation
Office Equipment
NEW YORK, NY-June 20, 1995 (PC Expo)--Novell today
announced plans by Canon, Cheyenne, and Ricoh to implement Novell
Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) in a new generation of intelligent
office equipment that can be accessed and controlled over networks.
These leading hardware and software vendors join a total of over 35
OEMs who have signed agreements with Novell to integrate NEST in their
products.
Building upon Novell's vision of pervasive computing, NEST
expands the conception of the networked office to include fax machines,
digital copiers, scanners, printers, PBX and storage devices. By
embedding the NetWare client into each of these devices, NEST allows
each device to become a node on a NetWare network. As a NetWare
network node, each device (and the information it processes) can be
accessed and controlled both locally and remotely. NEST is also platform
and processor independent, allowing developers to take any
processor-enabled office product and make it an "intelligent" device on
the network.
"It is time to stop considering the fax machine or the copier as a
stand-alone device," said Tom Jones, director of marketing for Novell's
Extended Networks Division. "Most machines in an office environment
offer services that could be better utilized if made part of the larger
network. NEST facilitates the integration of the entire office environment
into one networked workgroup."
Novell Partners With Leading Office Product Vendors
Ricoh will implement the NEST Autoroute software within its
popular line of fax machines, enabling users to access and distribute fax
information over the network. Ricoh facsimile with autoroute will enable
the user to encode the message to be faxed into digital copy for routing
to multiple destinations. The coding process will organize the fax so it
can be routed to the correct destination, whether it be a printer, digital
copier or e-mail box. Selecting these destinations for the user will be as
easy as keying in a code on their fax machine. "Ricoh wants the fax
machine to be seen as a way to send information in the most efficient
way possible," said Kawajiri Yoshio, vice president of Fax R&D for
Ricoh Corporation. "Autoroute allows Ricoh to enable a user to deliver a
fax not only to another fax machine, but also to a remote desktop or
e-mail mail box."
Canon is embedding NEST into its GP-55F and other GP series
products. The GP-55F is a high end machine combining the functionality
of printing, digital copying, scanning, filing and faxing. "Productivity is
driven by companies who provide users with efficient options, and we
believe NEST will allow the user of Canon products to better do the jobs
they perform day in and day out," said Ryoichi Bamba, vice president and
general manager of Office Equipment Marketing, Canon USA. "The
GP-55F enables a multitude of services to exist in one machine. NEST will
get that machine all the information it needs to get tasks accomplished."
The GP-55F, which supports both Token Ring and Ethernet, has been
"tested and approved" by Novell Labs to ensure operability within the
NetWare environment.
One of the world's leaders in fax software, Cheyenne is
embedding NEST into the software they provide to a variety of hardware
manufacturers so users can exercise the delivery option that is most
efficient for them. Cheyenne will provide the ability for fax servers to
receive encoded information and route that material along the network.
Using NetWare Directory Services (NDS), intelligent devices such as
copiers, printers, and of course desktop computers, will have addresses
to which information can be routed. "Cheyenne wants to help unlock the
power of fax servers to not only receive information, but also distribute
that information in an intelligent way across the networked enterprise,"
said Yuda Doron, CEO and president of Cheyenne Communications, Inc.
"Cheyenne is in the business of helping people distribute and share
information in the most effective way possible. NEST allows us to bring
greater efficiency through new options of distribution."
Additional Novell partners in the emerging networked office
marketplace include Castelle, Digital Products, Securicore Telecom
Limited, Future Systems Inc., QMS, Intel, I-Data International, Pacific Data
Products, Sercomm, Colorbus, Mita, Emulex, Hewlett-Packard, Axis
Computers, Xerox, Fujitsu, Lexmark, Kofax, Epson and Tektronix.
Novell Technology Drives The Emerging Networked Office
With remote computing (such as telecommuting from a home
office) becoming more popular, the office landscape of today is quickly
heading toward decentralization. Novell understands that networking will
provide the dynamic communications necessary to serve as the
backbone of new virtual and dynamic workgroups. These groups require
that all information devices, applications, and services be as accessible
and interconnected as the telephone is today. NEST delivers these
advanced services by providing a network connection, and by extending
worker productivity through a collection of value added resources.
Novell recognizes that while desktop and host resources are
moving to the network, so too must diverse data streams consolidate on
that same network. NEST offers this consolidation by allowing office
equipment vendors to make workplace products more intelligent by
integrating them with enhanced NetWare services. NEST delivers
NetWare Directory Services (NDS), NetWare Distributed Print Services
(NDPS), NEST Autoroute, Telephony, AT&T NetWare Connect Services
(ANCS) and GroupWise network messaging system to any intelligent
device.
For example, NDS provides the white and yellow pages for
advertising and locating all the users, resources and services on a given
network. NDS is the cornerstone and de facto standard for providing
easy methods for sharing information, applications and devices within
the networked office environment. NEST enables office devices to be
listed within NDS, so users can identify destinations from their client
computers. Users will then be able to route documents directly to the fax
machine for distribution or to the copier for mass duplication, all without
leaving the friendly confines of their desktop workstations.
Novell Embedded Systems Technology (NEST)
NEST is an instrumental part of Novell's mission to make computer
networks available to a billion users by the year 2000. NEST, because it
includes the client component of NetWare, brings NetWare's security,
directory services, routing and management capabilities to all intelligent
devices. NEST is a small, modular and operating system independent
architecture that allows everything from home electronics to automobiles
to communicate over computer networks. NEST will enable users to take
advantage of advanced Novell technologies like NetWare Directory
Services (NDS) -- whether they are connecting from a home PC, a
personal digital assistant (PDA), their car or their television set.
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