International Procurement Office, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-6, Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19, Japan

58 -- JAPAN: ATM REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM DUE 012596. POC NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor, New York, NY 10178, 212/661-0810 also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division, 800 El Camino Real West, Suite 103, Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565. This public notice is to request suppliers to provide NTT with general referential information on similar products or technology prior to procurement of the intended product (mentioned below) by NTT. This public notice is also to request that any suppliers wishing to participate as a subcontractor in the procurement program of this product should declare their intentions to that effect. This public notice is not intended to guarantee public notification of procurement of the product. (1) Name: ATM Remote Monitoring System. (2) Overview: ATM Remote Monitoring System is to be provided to remotely analyze Cell Relay signals sent from ATM switching system. The system consists of following three parts. - Monitoring Unit - This equipment has functions as collecting, storing, analyzing Cell Relay signals. - Interface Unit - This equipment has eight (or sixteen) interfaces to ATM switching system and one (or two) interface to Monitoring unit body. The equipment has function that it connects an ATM switching system side's interface to the Monitoring unit side's interface by control from the Remote control section. Control for the equipment is executed by the Remote control section via Monitoring unit body. - Remote Control Section - This part remotely controls Monitoring unit and Interface unit. The part consists of Work Station (hereinafter referred to as ``WS'') which is currently selling. Hardware and software of the part is selected by NTT apart from the ATM Remote Monitoring System. We manufactured by SUN Microsystems is expected as a component of the part. (3) Contents of RFI: Applicants are requested to supply NTT with the following information on similar products, or on technology relating to the product mentioned above. (All supplied information will be regarded as non-secret information and may be disclosed to third parties in the form of, for example, inclusion in the corresponding PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTATION, or may become available to third parties. In any case, NTT will not assume any responsibilities for possible disclosure or use of the supplied information.) (i) Technical information (including product catalogues, sample system configurations, etc.) (Monitoring Unit) - Analysis available ATM protocols - Triggering and filtering functions - Statistics analysis function - Remote control function - Capacity of RAM (for RAM which is to capture collecting data at real time) - Capacity of hardddisc - Available physical layer interface - Structure, appearance, electrical characteristics, environmental restriction - Reliability (MTBF etc.) (Interface Unit) - Available physical layer interface (ATM switching system side) - Available physical layer interface (Monitoring unit side) - Remote control function - Structure, appearance, electrical characteristics, environmental restriction - Reliability (MTBF etc.) (ii) Prices - Price of an unit - Price of optional components - Maintenance fee (iii) Standard time of delivery after ordering (iv) Sales records; (v) Others (Active proposals likely to become useful for increasing the businesses of NTT) - Maintenance support - Organization and term for maintenance, way of delivering manuals - Development and manufacturing organization - Organization and term which is necessary to add/change function. - Network names that similar products had been connected to - Plan of development in the future - Any other active proposals which would be useful for NTT's business Active proposals likely to become useful for increasing the businesses of NTT. (4) Request for Declaration of the Intention of Subcontracting. Any suppliers wishing to participate as a subcontractor in the product procurement program of NTT, is requested to supply NTT with the information listed below. After preparing a list of supplied information, NTT will provide the list to applicants who request the list; those who have responded to the request for supply of the information listed in Item 2; and to those who have purchased the PROCUREMENT DOCUMENTATION relating to procurement of the product. NTT, however, will not assume any responsibility for outcomes arising from supply of the list. (i) Name of the applicant (ii) Place of contact (Address, name of the person in charge, telephone number, and facsimile number) (iii) The products and/or services that the applicant can supply as a subcontract. (5) Deadline for Acceptance of Offers for Supply of Information and Declaration of Intention to Subcontract: January 25, 1996. (6) Language: Japanese or English. (362)

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