FORE Systems' President and CEO, Thomas J. Gill, Delivers Keynote at the
'IT for WallStreet '99' Conference
GartnerGroup/Ziff-Davis Event Brings Together Leading Securities, Banking and Insurance Companies
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- FORE Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORE - news), a leading global supplier of Application Aware(TM) networking
solutions, today announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Gill, will deliver Thursday's keynote address at this week's ''IT for WallStreet
'99'' conference and exhibition in New York City. Mr. Gill's presentation, entitled ''Building Application Aware Networks for Competitive Advantage,'' will
highlight the importance of an intelligent network foundation.
''The competitive landscape in today's financial services industry is extraordinary -- and that competition is fueled by the need for information,'' said Gill. ''Those
organizations with fast, reliable access to the right information at the right time stand to profit significantly. FORE Systems has invested heavily in developing
network solutions that can do just that, providing a critical competitive advantage to our customers.''
FORE Systems' Application Aware networking solutions allow the network to recognize the kind of traffic flowing across it, empowering the network manager to
prioritize business-critical traffic flows over other non-critical traffic. For example, a financial services company with an Application Aware network infrastructure
from FORE would be able to prioritize time-sensitive market data traffic and applications over email or Internet traffic. That way, as the network becomes
congested, the market data applications would still receive the highest levels of performance and availability.
Mr. Gill's presentation will be delivered on Thursday, February 25th at 8:30 a.m. at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
In addition to Mr. Gill's presentation, FORE Systems will highlight a series of leading edge network applications with the help of several partners in booth #567. In
cooperation with PictureTel, FORE Systems will demonstrate a network-based video teleconferencing system. Additionally, FORE will showcase an integrated
voice solution that is tailored to the financial services market with its partner V Band Corporation.
FORE Systems is also demonstrating an automated network management solution from Pivot Technologies and a middleware solution from IONA Technologies for
the integration of applications across language, platform and network boundaries.
About IT for WallStreet '99
The IT for WallStreet experience brings together key industry and technology experts to help clarify the increasingly complex IT-enabled financial services industry.
IT for WallStreet '99 will offer a comprehensive conference, produced by GartnerGroup and Ziff-Davis, entitled ''IT Strategies for the Financial Services Industry.''
ZD Events will supplement the conference with two PowerPanels, three tutorials and four high-level keynotes. In addition to the educational conference, the event
will feature over 2100 solution-providers in a three-day exhibition. To help attendees glimpse the future of trading, a Live Trading Floor Demonstration Area will
showcase over 25 different technologies in an actual trading floor setting, complete with live market data feeds.
About FORE Systems
FORE Systems is a leading global supplier of high performance networking solutions. FORE's Networks of Steel(TM) deliver the capacity, resiliency and
unparalleled scalability necessary to build networks that last. That's why thousands of enterprise and service provider customers worldwide have put FORE
Systems' solutions at the heart of their networks.
======================= The following segment is in fact a KEY piece of FORE strength and that can potentially become a large revenue generator. Nobody has perfected this end-to-end applications' aware networking and FORE is at the fore front of it.
Would not be surprised at all if FORE is bough by some large applications oriented companies like MSFT, ORCL, SUNW or Intel.
The notion of the network is the computer becomes a true reality when an application running on a Win98 PC can get deterministic QoS across the country link to the server running on Win NT.
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FORE Systems' Application Aware networking solutions allow the network to
recognize the kind of traffic flowing across it, empowering the network manager to
prioritize business-critical traffic flows over other non-critical traffic. For example, a
financial services company with an Application Aware network infrastructure
from FORE would be able to prioritize time-sensitive market data traffic and
applications over email or Internet traffic. That way, as the network becomes
congested, the market data applications would still receive the highest levels of
performance and availability.
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