Knoxville, TN, October 31, 2003 - SNMP Research International begins shipping 16.1 release of developer products to customers.

SNMP Research's new 16.1 release for the EMANATE ^® family of SNMP agent developer tools, and the BRASS^TM family of SNMP manager development tools include many new features and performance enhancements. This release is now available for licensing for new projects, and will also be distributed to customers who have support agreements.

Enhancements include:

• Support for stronger cryptography algorithms (Triple-DES and AES) for SNMPv3 privacy.
• Reduced code size for typical embedded agents.
• All documentation is now supplied in pdf format with bookmarks.
• All products include a Quick Start Guide.
• Support for latest versions of Internet standards for SNMP (RFC 3410-3418).
• Updated platform support, including popular open systems and embedded real-time operating systems.
• SNMPv3 Configuration Wizard application is included for internal development and testing purposes.
• Enhanced MIB compiler and MIB processing tools are included for both agents and managers.
• New command line options for EMANATE agents to provide enhanced deployment flexibility.
• The EMANATE Master Agent now makes more efficient use of operating system thread facilities for enhanced performance.

For further information, refer to "What's New in the Current Release" for a more detailed summary, or view the Release Notes for complete descriptions of the new features and enhancements.

Please contact SNMP Research with any questions about the new release.

The primary business of SNMP Research International is creating, licensing, and supporting software for the management of networks, systems, applications, and legacy devices. Our objective is to help companies deploy standards-based management with shorter time-to-market, lower costs, and better fidelity to standards, which results in interoperability and less risk.

SNMP Research provides innovative solutions for extensible agent, manager station, and mid-level manager implementations that are based on SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, HTTP/HTML, and other protocols. SNMP Research provides products and services worldwide to end-users, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), value-added resellers, and system integrators.