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Industry News
Lucent Technologies ORiNOCO: Power Over Ethernet!
Active Ethernet, a new feature that provides power over Ethernet
capabilities for Lucent's entire
ORiNOCO product line of enterprise, outdoor, and public area wireless
networking equipment, allows system installers to run only a single Ethernet
cable to each Access Point base station, instead of separate power and data
cables, saving thousands of cabling dollars.
AP Engines Announces OSS Solution
Deploying services has never been faster or easier. The AP
Engines InterLink is composed of two integrated products, the AP
InterLink Service Creation and AP InterLink Usage mediation, which allows
provisioning and billing mediation to occur in a flexible, scalable way. AP
Interlink facilitates settlement, serviceability, and registration data by
communicating with new network elements and existing back-office
infrastructure.
I-Bus/Phoenix Announces The Launch Of G2077
The G2077 High-Availability Sun Sparc Cluster System, equipped with
two Sun CP1500 SBCs, comes fully integrated with dual hot-swap, Intraserver
ITI-8241C-S quad Ethernet, dual Ultra-2 SCSI and 4 MB video board, 10 user
expansion slots, as well as a Sun Cluster 2.2 or Veritas HA Foundation Suite
installed.
www.ibus.com
Genesys Extends G6 Contact Center Suite To IP Networks
The Genesys VoIP Option
allows businesses to manage interactions across their distributed
enterprise, ensuring that customers are delivered to the right resource
regardless of where that resource may be located. "Our VoIP option
offers businesses a realistic choice for handling customer interactions over
IP Networks," says Lurent Philonenko, CTO of Genesys.
VCON Upgrades Falcon IP Line Of Video Conferencing
Appliances
Enabling users to choose the amount of bandwidth used for calls, the
Dual-mode Falcon IP offers customers
maximum flexibility in a next-generation appliance. Designed for business
communication and training, it is small enough to sit on top of a TV, and
simple enough for the technically challenged.
Avici Systems Terabit Switch Router In All-Optical
Broadband Network
The Avici TSR solution will be a part of
Qwest's all-optical IP network initiative, which exploits the latest in
optical technology to significantly reduce operating costs and to provide
customers with unprecedented capacity at a lower cost.
Advantech ZA-100 Thin Server: More Affordable Than Ever!
Capable of delivering the robust performance required for a wide
range of application solutions, the ZA-100
incorporates two Pentium III CPUs running at speeds up to 1GHz, and allows
up to 42 servers to be configured in an industry standard rack. Dual Intel
82559 Fast Ethernet controllers on the board support 10 BaseT and 100 BaseTX
standards via RJ-45 connectors provide for a cost-effective communications
server.
Fujitsu Brings Converged Network To The Little Guy
Fujitsu now offers the Infinexa
IP-PBX, a server-based IP-PBX that brings the advantages of an IP-based
network to its business customers. Allowing converged voice traffic on a
single network supporting the H.323 standard, the Infinexa runs on a Windows
NT server and is initially scalable up to 200 users.
Convergent Networks Offers New Optical Interfaces
Simplifying network requirements for carriers handling voice traffic on
optical networks, the ICS2000 Broadband Switch is bringing the power and
flexibility of an optical core to the end user. By providing for the
transport of voice calls from the traditional telephone network to advanced
packet networks entirely over optical interfaces, Convergent
raises the IP bar a few notches higher.
Genuity Deploys RADCOM Omni-Q
Genuity will deploy RADCOM's
Omni-Q voice quality management system in their VoIP network, offering
objective call quality measurement as well as enabling proactive route call
service to ensure superior call quality. Given the ability to identify
problem areas before problems occur, the Omni-Q system will provide
Genuity's customers high levels of quality and satisfaction.
ADLink's New CompactPCI-2000
The cPCI-2000 Series provides
the ultimate in versatility to meet user requirements whether it is used for
desktop, portable, or rack mount applications. These platform chassis come
in a variety of user selectable configurations including a 6.4" LCD
display, off-the-shelf ATX or redundant hot-swappable power supplies, and
front or rear I/O connections, all in a 4U high chassis.
Intel Dialogic Enhances VoIP With Internet Phone SDK
The Internet Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) is a key building
block in that it enables application developers and SPs to create robust,
standards-based VoIP calling solutions for their customers. The SDK
increases developers' ability to reach the market faster with new VoIP
products. "The Intel Internet Phone SDK gives an application developer
a standards-based development kit with easy-to-use interfaces to build IP
telephony calling applications for virtually any business application,"
states Robert Becker, director of product line and channel marketing for Intel
Dialogic.
Performance Technologies And Motorola Computer Group
Collaborate
PTI and Motorola
will provide a highly reliable, integrated hardware and software signaling
gateway solution for Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector, which is
developing Motorola's core network architecture for the Aspira technology,
an IP-based multimedia services solution. PTI will integrate its MicroLegend
SS7/IP distributed software architecture stack and CompactPCI CPC380 network
I/O modules with MCG's Linux-based, cPCI CPX8216 hardware platform for use
in wireless systems being built for Motorola's Aspira architecture.
Portal Software To Support Dialpad VoIP Services
Dialpad will use Infranet, Portal's
Customer management and billing platform, to support new VoIP services and
products, manage user accounts, create pricing structures, and roll out
promotions. Portal's Infranet Platform will help Diapad to quickly offer new
value added services and promotions, manage a growing customer base, and
respond quickly to market changes./
Infinilink Corporation's i500 Ethernet Router Approved in
Europe, Asia
With CE approval, in addition to its previous FCC certifications, the i500
can be used in any region where G.992.1 T1.413i2 Annex A has been deployed
across the world. Compliant with all current industry standards, the i500
features an embedded processor responsible for implementing all ATM and
protocol encapsulation software functions allowing it to provide an
"always on" connection.
Kenetec Defines The Services-Oriented Building Area
Network
Kenetec announced an industry
initiative to define and establish the key attributes of the infrastructure
needed to effectively deliver converged multimedia broadband services to the
rapidly growing multitenant unit telco market. "As our recent MTU
market research clearly indicates, service providers are now moving the
'last mile' infrastructure right into buildings," said Amy Helland,
from Cahners In-Stat.
Ericsson Selects Natural MicroSystems Technology For CXE
Platform
The new Ericsson CXE platform fuses
open standards and off-the-shelf technologies in a highly versatile,
cost-effective solution that minimizes development time and is built to
satisfy intensive demands for flexibility, high availability, and
scalability. Within the platform, a range of essential voice and data
communications functions are handled by the NMS
technology, including the telephony interface, the software development
environment, the fax server, conferencing, and SS7 signaling software.
Net2Phone and CallWave Announce Alliance
Net2Phone, a leading provider of
voice-enhanced communication over IP, and CallWave,
an Internet call-waiting provider, have now teamed up to allow you to
integrate your IP telephony in an intuitive, just-like-home, manner. A
customer base of over 5 million users will benefit from this alliance,
allowing them to return calls while online with a single click.
Texas Instruments Offers Complete Voice-Enabled Cable
Solution
The synergy of TI's complete data
over cable service specification (DOCSIS) 1.1-ready hardware and software,
complete PacketCable software, flexible residential distribution
peripherals, and a communications processor featuring the world's
lowest-power DSP gives manufacturers a scalable solution that allows them to
get to market quickly with products that meet the growing demand for digital
services over cable.
Trenton Technology Introduces The SLE SBC
With Dual Intel Pentium III Low-Profile FC-PGA Processors, the SLE
SBC utilizes SDRAM, and provides the flexibility of independent channels
for dual network applications. Fully compliant with the PCI Local Bus 2.1
and PICMG 2.0 Specifications, the SLE supports a 133 MHz Front Side Bus and
a maximum throughput of 190 MB/sec.
Tekelec Announces Vxi2000 Media Gateway Controller
Softswitch
The Vxi2000 MGC, a media gateway controller for IP- and ATM-based
packet-telephony networks, is a major enhancement to the VoX MGC platform,
and has already undergone 18 months of testing in vendor lab trials in the
U.S. and Europe. The Vxi softswitch family delivers a complete suite of
applications including distributed packet tandem, alternate access control,
Internet offload, and VPN services.
Marconi's Next-Gen IP And Multi-Service Switch Router:
BXR-48000
The BXR-48000, a 480 Gbps
switch router, allows operators to decrease their annual operating costs by
reducing overlay networks, migrating numerous legacy and emerging IP
services onto one common network and optimizing bandwidth utilization for
more efficient use of optical infrastructures.
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