Intelliden: A start-up to watch

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

By Ann Bednarz
Network World, 04/29/02

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Company name: Short for "intelligent directory-enabled networks."

Origin: Founded in April 2000 by three former WorldCom executives.

Funding: A $15 million second round closed in October 2001, bringing the total to $25 million.

Key investors: 3i Group, Matrix Partners and mortonsgroup LLC.

CEO: Co-founder Dale Hecht, former WorldCom vice president of enterprise data and management services.

Products: Intelliden R-Series device management software.

Just two months out of stealth mode is Intelliden, a Colorado Springs maker of software for configuring and managing network routers and switches. Instead of manually configuring each device, Intelliden users run configuration templates and then replicate settings to targeted Cisco and Juniper Networks devices ÷ up to 5,000 per Intelliden server. Besides being a time saver, the process aims to improve accuracy ÷ as many as 60% of manually configured routers and LAN switches can contain at least one substantial error, Intelliden says. To reduce errors and oversights, user-defined rules establish who can implement configuration changes, which alterations require approval and when the work should be done, Intelliden says. And it's all done through a Web interface, instead of at a command line.

Intelliden's R10 package handles IP device configuration and service management, and the Intelliden R30 adds an XML-over-Java API for interfacing with back-office systems. The software is priced per device managed, starting in the "tens of thousands" of dollars range for a 50-router network. Support is now limited to Cisco and Juniper gear, but the company says it will add support for other vendors' devices as the market dictates.

The company has 15 patents pending for its technology and seven beta-version customers as of last month. Turning beta testers into customers could be a challenge though, given that service provider spending is weak, and large companies will need some convincing to add to their router-management arsenal.