Boxborough, Massachusetts-based Agile Networks Inc will next month embark on a licensing program, through which it hopes to persuade other vendors to license the virtual local network component of its ATMizer local net-to- Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch, PC Week reports – and the company is not planning to charge licensees, according to the report. Specifically, Agile is said to be targeting workgroup vendors in order to extend the reach of its virtual local net implementation from the backbone to the enterprise network. Agile claims that its virtual local network implementation is unique in that it creates virtual local nets by monitoring network layer packet and subnet information as it passes through the switch, and Agile is said to be working on enhancements which would enable it to assign multicast and broadcast packets to virtual local network membership. In pursuance of its strategy to get into the workgroup market, Agile is also planning to in-corporate an SNMP Management Information Base enabling the two types of switch to communicate.
