The latest company to launch an exciting new product into the swelling network management and monitering market is Sipher Products Ltd: Network Monitoring System operates independently of built-in proprietary diagnostics and can manage multi-vendor equipment, and Sipher is aiming it at organisations who survive by their real-time networking applications, so that users might include electronic information providers such as value added data resellers and their subscribers; it is a modular system comprising micro command and control system with 16 switching cards, and reconfigures remotely using configuration maps stored on a personal computer, or locally using a programming keypad on the front panel of each switching frame; prices start at UKP150 per connection