Westborough, Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc has found more success in its mission to attract licensees for its internetworking technologies. Motorola Inc’s Information Systems Group has bought the rights to use new elements of Proteon’s OpenRoute internetworking software as an expansion of an agreement originally signed in 1992. Conversely, Proteon will license networking management capabilities from Motorola; specifically, it will integrate the latter’s IBM Corp LAN Network Manager modules into its OpenRoute system, for use across the range of Proteon products. For its part, Motorola is planning to incorporate the Proteon technology into its packet- and frame-based network access devices, including the Vanguard 300 family of Frame Relay access devices, and its 6520 MP router. While Robert Koch, director of marketing for Proteon’s Internetworking Systems Division, would not reveal the financial details of the agreement with Motorola, he did say that the bulk of the technology swap was from us to them. Koch said that the company went to Motorola for the network management component since the technology has been field-proved and tested. The announcement brings to three the number of companies licensing Proteon’s technology, following its wins from IBM Corp (CI No 2,333) and from Digital Equipment Corp last September (CI No 2,488).
