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Sycamore Enables Better Optical
Reach
Sycamore Networks announces new functionality for its SN
3000 Optical Access Switch and its SN 8000 Optical
Transport System that is designed to allow service
providers to cost-effectively bridge the transport and
optically switched access networks. This solution is
designed to allow service providers to drive down the
cost of delivering bandwidth while increasing their
service capabilities from the core to the edge of the
public network.
www.sycamorenet.com
/ 877.792.2667
CopperCom's Softswitch System
Achieves Certification for SS7 Interoperability
CopperCom announced that its LeXSS system has achieved
SS7 interoperability with multiple carriers including
Bellsouth, SBC, Illuminet, and SNET. CopperCom's SS7
interoperability enables service providers to leverage a
full range of AIN facilities in the PSTN, including 800
number dialing and local number portability. CopperCom
supports, and is certified, with the ATIS full SS7
stack, including MTP 1-3, ISUP, and SCCP.
www.coppercom.com
/ 408.987.8500
Agilent Simplifies Troubleshooting
For Next-Gen Networks
The Agilent Voice Quality Tester now allows network
technicians and engineers to evaluate the voice quality
of distributed VoIP networks from a single location
anywhere on the network, saving valuable test time and
enabling a far more efficient use of skilled engineering
resources. The new distributed test capabilities allow
test creation, storage, and execution at a PC without
the need to transfer files.
www.agilent.com /
800.452.4844
SS8 Networks Enables Rapid And
Flexible Service Delivery
SS8 is proud to introduce the Intelligent Services
Architecture. Designed for the rapid delivery of
IP-based voice, video, and data services, the ISA
combines the scale and performance of the PSTN with the
flexibility of the Internet and provides carriers with
intelligent call routing, service switching/mediation,
and service logic to enable a broad range of new
applications and services.
www.ss8.com /
408.501.2100
eYak Launches Global Alliance
Program
The Global Alliance Program, which includes 15 founding
members, is designed to facilitate the introduction of
eYak's Soft Telephony technology into the marketplace.
Soft-
Telephony refers to IP-based carrier-class voice and
speech services powered by software and standard
Intel-based servers, eliminating the need for DSPs and
special telephony cards.
www.eyak.com /
617.531.2100
Lucent Technologies Unveils EXS
The EXS Converged Services Platform is an IP-enhanced
platform that supports the deployment of voice and data
services in circuit, packet, and converged networks. The
EXS enables third-party application developers to create
and deliver services that carriers can offer on
softswitch-based IP networks, as well as existing
circuit-based infrastructures.
www.lucent.com /
888.458.2368
Low-Profile 2-Slot CompactPCI From
Bustronic
Bustronic has developed a new backplane for 1U
low-profile horizontal chassis. The 2-slot cPCI
backplane comes in a 7U form factor and features two
power bugs for GND; one power bug each for +3.3V and
+5V; one power blade each for +12V, -12V, and PS-ON; and
two power blades for V I/O.
www.bustronic.com
/ 510.490.7388
Elma Electronics' New 16-Slot
H.110 Backplane
Elma Electronics is proud to announce their new 16-Slot
H.110 compliant backplane, which conforms to PICMG 2.0
Rev 3.0 specifications and features 16 cPCI slots in two
separate, bridgeable eight-slot segments. Additionally,
two Positronic 47-pin power supply connectors (four
connectors optional), one power tap each for +3.3V and
+5V, two power taps for each VI/O and GND, and fast-on
blades for +12V and �12V come standard.
www.elma.com /
510.656.5829
New VoIP Application Platform to
Drive Enhanced Communications
HearMe has unveiled the newest release of VoiceSERVER,
their cornerstone VoIP application platform for
deploying enhanced services by merging telephony and the
Web via the next-generation communications network. Such
VoIP calling features such as "instant" conferencing,
presence, click-to-call, find-me/follow-me, and voice
enhanced CRM, are supported.
www.hearme.com /
650.429.3900
China Mobile Selects Portal
Software For Next-Gen Software
Portal Software's Infranet Interconnect software will
support the increasingly stringent demands for
efficient, accurate, and transparent settlement among
China Mobile's provincial subsidiaries. Upon completion,
China Mobile's settlement center will be capable of
handling tens of millions of events per hour and deliver
necessary flexibility, availability, and scalability to
support new services for customers.
www.portal.com /
888.343.4400
Storm Telecommunications Brewing
Up High-Level IP
Storm Telecommunications announced plans to run advanced
IP managed services over its optical network and to
expand its channel coverage to the enterprise and
e-business communities. Storm's intelligent mesh network
will shortly be delivering advanced IP services to 12
European countries and the U.S.
www.stormtel.com /
+44 (0)20 7776 0000
iPass Provides Remote Global
Broadband Roaming
iPass announces the deployment of iPassConnect 2.0
remote access clients that enable secure, high-speed
Global Broadband Roaming over wireless devices and
wireline connections in airports, hotels, convention
centers, and other locations frequented by business
travelers. Through iPassConnect 2.0, users experience a
single source of service availability, greatly reducing
the complexity of planning both travel arrangements and
remote access.
www.ipass.com /
650.232.4100
Motorola Provides Wide Range Of
IP Solutions
Motorola Computer Group announces the PXP2000 family of
control management platforms that provide a smooth
migration path to a packet switching-based network
infrastructure. The PXP series helps deliver and OEM
platform for packet network-based carrier grade
applications such as intelligent edge switch routers,
Web hosting, network access, and wireless
infrastructure.
www.mcg.mot.com /
800.759.1107
Natural MicroSystems Acquires
Mobilee
NMS announces a definitive agreement to acquire
privately held Mobilee, Inc., a Boston-based wireless
Internet infrastructure provider. This acquisition adds
key technology, including VoiceXML and audio streaming,
to the company's platforms for voice-activated,
Web-to-phone services. In related news, the first
product offering to come from the acquisition is the
HearSay SoftServer, a complete phone-to-Web platform.
www.nmss.com /
508.620.9300
Telco Systems Launches Cross-Platform
Element Management System
The new edgeview Element Management System (EMS) is a
cross-platform EMS that offers Web-based management for
Telco Systems' Edgelink Family of products through a
simple and intuitive GUI interface with complete access
to maps, events, alerts, network databases, reports, MIB
browsing, and administration.
www.telco.com /
781.551.0300
Occam Networks Introduces
Broadband Loop Carrier Platforms
Boasting the functionality of DLC, DSLAM, media gateway,
and loop tester on a single platform, Broadband Loop
Carriers is the new class of carrier equipment from
Occam Networks. "BLC's represent a significant departure
for carrier broadband deployments because, for the first
time, they provide a cost-effective, simple approach to
voice and data service delivery," states Lisa Farr,
Occam's president and CEO.
www.occamnetworks.com
/ 805.692.6220
Solution 5.0 Offers New
Functionality And Support
Solution 5.0 from MetaSolv is the newest version of its
OSS solution. To support the global marketplace, it
extends functionality to allow flexibility for service
providers operating in diverse regulatory, logistical,
and geographic environments. 5.0 enables providers to
flexibly define how equipment, locations, and other
critical network and service information will be entered
in the OSS.
www.metasolv.com /
800.747.0791
Universal Port Technology From
CommWorks
CommWorks is proud to announce that a new universal port
technology that will allow service providers to use the
same dial port to terminate voice, data, and fax calls
is under development. Service providers using the Total
Control 1000 Enhanced Data System from CommWorks can
upgrade their systems to universal port status through a
software upgrade.
www.commworks.com
/ 800.738.3266
ITOX CS15 Motherboard
The new ITOX CS15 full-function, powerful PC motherboard
features a video controller and three LAN interfaces on
board. It can support up to three PCI expansion cards,
and its built-in 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX LAN interfaces make
it ideal for network appliances and low-profile servers
that require multiple Ethernet ports such as Network
Attached Storage, firewalls, gateways, and VPNs.
www.itox.com /
732.390.2815
InterNetShare Welcomes All
Aboard!
InterNetShare is proud to announce its All Aboard!
Advanced Edge Router product family targeted to
corporate end-users, ISPs, and OEMs that require
simplified, secure communications among remote LAN
users. Configuration is done via a standard Web browser
and is fully compliant with all Internet standards.
www.internetshare.com
/ 408.735.9800
VoiceGenie Announces Complete
Voice Web Solution
VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway 5.0, which provides 100
percent compliance to the VoiceXML 1.0 standard with
VoIP capability supporting SIP and H.323 protocols,
enables a company's customers or employees to access Web
information, conduct on-line transactions, and manage
personal communications, including e-mail and
voice-activated dialing. In addition, applications and
services developed today on VoiceGenie's VoiceXML
Gateway 4.0 are VoIP ready.
www.voicegenie.com
/ 416.736.0905
Broadwing Communications Unveils
All-Optical Switched Network
By switching light across the entire network backbone,
without electrical regeneration, the 18,500-mile
Broadwing network will operate at high levels of
capacity, speed, availability, and efficiency. The
unique capabilities of Broadwing's all-optical network
are attracting customers who are dissatisfied with today's
current high-bandwidth options.
www.broadwing.com
/ 800.276.2394
Envox 4.0 Offers Developers
Expanded Communications Resources
With added support for XML, ATM, SS7, and IMAP4, the 4.0
release of the Envox Communications Development Platform
gives developers additional resources for the rapid
development of advanced communications applications. The
Envox Communications Development Platform consists of
the Envox Studio, a GUI programming environment for
rapid application development and the Envox
Communications Server, a scalable Windows-based runtime
environment.
www.envox.com /
508.898.2600
ADLINK's New E-Platform
The E-PLATFORM series is a versatile rackmounted
computer sporting a unique design that uses a half-sized
SBC and extends computing applications from there with
two PCI slot risers into a 1U-high box. It can be
implemented as an intelligent router, switch, firewall,
gateway, thin-server, e-mail/Internet server, or other
OEM-specific computing product.
www.adlinktechnology.com
/ 949.250.3339
TalkingNets To Deliver Over
Cogent Communications Network
TalkingNets, a telephony ASP, announced that it will
extend its next-generation voice services to small and
medium sized businesses utilizing Cogent Communications'
Optical IP Network. Under the agreement, TalkingNets
will deliver its softswitch-based voice services to
broadband service provider customers over Cogent's
nationwide network.
www.talkingnets.com
/ 910.256.0770
Everest Broadband Scales
Metropolitan Ethernet Services Architecture
Everest Broadband Networks announces the strategy for
its Metropolitan Ethernet Services Architecture and the
deployment of its first MESA-based points-of-presence in
New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Dallas, Toronto,
and Montreal. MESA enables Everest to deliver converged
voice, data, video, and best-of-breed applications
services to the premises of small and medium-sized
business customers in multi-tenant unit buildings.
www.everestbroadband.com
/ 800.918.1900
Ariel Corporation Enables Smaller
ISPs and CLECs
The BypaSS7 Signaling Service from Ariel, which greatly
reduces up-front capital equipment expenditures for
deploying SS7-based, switchless, 56K/ISDN dial up
service, enables ISPs and CLECs to offer SS7-based
switchless Internet access without having to purchase
and operate expensive SS7 infrastructure.
www.ariel.com /
609.860.2900
Strike Up The Bandwidth!
Aplion Networks has completed its Network Virtuoso
platform with the availability of Orchestra and Duet,
two key network elements. Network Virtuoso is an
infrastructure product line that enables providers to
create services in software instead of dedicated
hardware, without being tied to specific protocols.
Using a dual-ended approach consisting of service edge
equipment and customer premise equipment along with
management software, service providers can quickly and
cost-effectively deliver revenue-rich services to their
customers.
www.aplion.com /
732.287.5700
TOPP Of The Class 5
Taqua Systems has launched Taqua Open Partners Program
in order to accelerate the acceptance and deployment of
next-generation Class 5 switching platforms for voice
and data convergence by attracting developers, vendors,
service providers, system integrators, and OEM partners
to work cooperatively for the global service provider
market.
www.taqua.com /
508.778.8808
Spectrum Announces aXs.110
The aXs.110 is the first in a series of VoIP and VoATM
Evaluation and Reference Platforms. It is a
self-contained unit that allows customers to directly
evaluate Spectrum's new aXs voice-processing products
into their broadband voice gateways that bridge the PSTN
and packet networks. The aXs.110 supports up to OC-3
capacities with fully integrated support for voice
processing algorithms, packet processing, and call
control.
www.spectrumsignal.com
/ 604.421.5422
Ixthos Announces CompactPCI DSP
Board
This new CompactPCI board from Ixthos was designed
specifically for 3G wireless and broadband
telecommunications applications. Four AltiVec PowerPC
7400/7410 processors at 400-600 MHz, providing over 16
GFLOPS of available DSP performance, Ixthos's CHAMP
architecture, and seven on-board, intelligent DMA
controllers, combine to make this board ideal for
high-density advanced voice, video, and data
convergence.
www.ixthos.com /
703.779.7800
VBrick Introduces Streaming DVD
The VBrick 4000, 5000, and 6000 low-cost MPEG-2 network
appliances designed for high-end video applications are
now available from VBrick. Organizations can increase
productivity by using the devices for monitoring,
streaming news, and reducing costs by training and
educating students remotely through the use of the
VBrick system. These new VBricks stream DVD-quality
video and CD-quality stereo audio directly to any number
of PCs that are outfitted with VBrick's StreamPlayerII
software decoder.
www.vbrick.com /
203.265.0044
MGCP Interoperable Through
Mediatrix
The MGCP Stack joins Mediatrix's SIP stack in the
company's portfolio of IP telephony software offerings.
Both stacks have been licensed to major OEMs and are
included as options in Mediatrix's own line of IP
Telephony Adapters. "Mediatrix's proven IP telephony
technology allows its customers to deploy VoIP in new
generation networks today," stated Dr. Genoni, president
and CEO.
www.mediatrix.com
/ 514.285.0058
IBM To Offer New Telco Servers
The deskside p620 and rack-mounted p660 are midrange
UNIX servers built to contain IBM-pioneered
Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. Microprocessors
built with SOI run up to 35 percent faster and at much
cooler temperatures than traditional aluminum chips,
increasing server performance and up-time. "With this
announcement, IBM combines support for open standards
with the latest advancements in hardware technology to
offer the industry's most powerful and flexible midrange
systems," said Rod Adkins, general manager, IBM Web
Servers Unit.
www.ibm.com /
800.426.4968
Ridgeway VX Communications System
Now Available
Ridgeway has announced the availability of the Ridgeway
VX Communication System, giving service providers the
ability to quickly and easily supply IP voice and video
services, even to H.323 end-points with private IP
addresses. The solution, which is comprised of both
hardware and software, enables secure delivery of media
over existing network infrastructure and into private IP
environments.
www.ridgeway.com /
512.231.7300
CG Mupac Offers New SBC For
Industrial Applications
Model SBCPxBX is a new PICMG-compliant PCI/ISA
industrial SBC from Carlo Gavazzi Mupac that brings
speed, scalable performance, and long life to
Internet/intranet, CTI, VoIP, industrial automation,
military/aerospace, and medical applications. The unit
features an Intel Pentium III FCA-PGA or PPGA Celeron
processor up to 850 MHz with on-die L2 cache running at
full core speed.
www.carlogavazzi.com
/ 508.588.6110
New TBP-19A12 Backplane From
I-Bus/Phoenix
The TBP-19A12 provides a backplane option for
telecommunications, broadcast, telephony, industrial,
and medical OEMs. Designed to PCI V2.1 specifications,
it supports 12 full-length PCI slots, five ISA slots,
and two CPU slots, and is constructed of six layers. The
TBP-19A12 fits into a wide range of I-Bus/Phoenix
enclosures, including the TR6 and 4820 series and the
IFTA+.
www.ibus.com /
585.503.3000
MasterMind Plots Release Of VoIP
IVR Platform
The AOS 1000 IP-IVR Media Server platform provides next-gen
network service providers with an open platform for
deploying rich, extensible, and reliable services across
the packet network. With an intuitive visual service
creation environment and customizable off the shelf
solutions, AOS 100 lets CSP's deploy a full range of
traditional IVR and enhanced telephony services.
www.mastermind.com
/ 202.298.8500
Call Sciences Acquires Vocal Link
Technology
In a move that will expand the Web-based capabilities of
its unified communications service offerings, Call
Sciences has announced that it has acquired Vocal Link,
a communications services provider specializing in
e-mail hosting and voice activated unified messaging.
New services such as enhanced speech recognition,
synchronization tools, e-mail hosting, security tools,
portal services, and other unified messaging
technologies will now be offered by Call Sciences.
www.callsciences.com
/ 800.669.5400
Agere Systems Powers ORiNOCO
Wireless
Agere Systems, formerly known as the Microelectronics
Group of Lucent Technologies, announced a new suite of
features and capabilities for the ORiNOCO wireless
networking system. The new software will provide users
with greater ease of use and configuration tools for
network and system managers.
www.agere.com /
908.508.8234
BeVocal And iBasis Connect To
Expand European VoiceXML
This new BeVocal-iBasis relationship offers speech
application developers European telephone number access
to the BeVocal Caf�, delivering significant
cost-savings for European developers who want to use the
BeVocal Caf� to test and demonstrate applications for
customers through the use of the iBasis Network. These
services are available at no additional cost to VoiceXML
developers who want to test and demonstrate their
applications.
www.cafe.bevocal.com
/ 408.907.3200
www.ibasis.net /
781.505.7500
NetNumber and Indigo Software
Partner To Advance IP Communications
Indigo Software and NetNumber will partner in order to
facilitate the deployment of a wholly transparent,
network access numbering technology. The alliance will
help service providers to deliver enhanced Internet
communications solutions based on NetNumber's ENUM
Service and Indigo Software's SIP-based product
ensemble. This new partnership will help service
providers avoid costly routing over the PSTN.
www.netnumber.com
/ 512.241.1855
www.indigosw.com /
415.887.351
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