“IPHighway, Inc. a leading provider of carrier-class,
multi-vendor, policy-based networking technology, today announced
an initiative to make the COPS (Common Open Policy Service)
technology freely available to networking companies and equipment
providers. Through an open source agreement, IPHighway would
offer complete access to the COPS-PR protocol, including licensing
and documentation, through its Web site, www.iphighway.com.
Similarly, Intel Corporation will provide open source access to the
COPS-RSVP software via their site, www.intel.com.”
“COPS offers a reliable, responsive protocol for policy-based
network management systems, enabling the dynamic, proactive
management of network devices. By integrating COPS, networking
companies and equipment providers can “policy-enable” their
products, offering complete support for industry standard policy
management systems such as IPHighway’s OPS (Open Policy
System).”
“By integrating the standards-based COPS protocol, networking
companies can extend their products to access intuitive,
policy-enabled networking solutions — enabling their customers to
better support next-generation, business-critical applications,”
explained Shai Herzog, Chief Technology Officer at IPHighway, Inc.
“The unprecedented open source agreement offered by IPHighway will
make it extremely easy for companies to simply download the
software and put it to use, with absolutely no strings
attached.”