Users will soon be able to look to Novell Directory Services (NDS) as the central point for managing user access to all of their Bay Networks switches.
In a deal finalized earlier today, Bay parent company Nortel Networks agreed to license NDS and integrate it into Bay Networks' Optivity Policy Services policy management application suite. This melding of the directory with the physical network layer will give network administrators the ability to allocate network resources based on user identity or other objects defined in NDS and apply them rega