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Nortel Networks Introduces Passport
8600 10GigE Capability
Passport 8600 is designed to deliver IEEE 802.3ae
specifications�based, 10-Gigabit Ethernet to provide
customers a faster, more cost-effective scalable
solution. In addition, it will also offer a new NEBS-3
compliant central office chassis and split-MLT
functionality to drive five-nines reliability and enable
multiple site redundancy.
www.nortelnetworks.com
/ 905.863.0000
Intel's Converged Communications
Platform 2100 Now Available
An open standards-based, application ready platform, the
Converged Communications Platform 2100 supports a broad
range of compatible telephony and business software
applications, peripherals, and services from multiple
vendors on a single system, allowing small-sized to
medium-sized companies to rapidly and cost-effectively
expand their business communications capabilities at any
time.
www.intel.com /
973.993.3000
The iQ4000 IP Service Edge Switch
The iQ4000 switch is an ideal entry platform for network
service providers to introduce revenue-generating
intelligent services such as secure Internet access,
private Intranets and extranets with QoS, managed
network firewalls, and more. The iQ4000 IP Service Edge
Switch is optimized for delivering advanced IP services
in community Central Offices and Points of Presence,
optical-Ethernet Metropolitan Area Networks,
Multi-tenant units, and major-enterprise WANs.
www.quarrytech.com
/ 781.505.8300
Altigen Ships 22,000 Phone Lines In
Second Quarter Alone
Altigen Communications, who manufactures IP-PBX phone
systems for small and mid-sized businesses has announced
that it has shipped over 22,000 phone lines of capacity
to its small business customers in the first calendar
quarter of 2001. A full 15 percent of these lines were
VoIP for customers to take advantage of the cost savings
and virtual call center capabilities associated with
AltiGen's IP PBX phone systems.
www.altigen.com /
510.252.9712
SRS Labs' WOW And VIP Now Available
SRS Labs' two new eXpressDSP compliant algorithms, WOW
and VIP for Texas Instruments' new TMS320C55x DSP for
the coming wave of cost sensitive, portable-Internet
products are now available to end customers. The
availability of these technologies on TI's DSP platforms
provides powerful audio and voice enhancement capability
to portable imbedded devices.
www.srslabs.com /
949.442.1070
Mitel Unveils Three New Communications
Solutions
Mitel's March Networks 3100 and 3300 Integrated
Communications Platforms, and March Networks 6530
speech-enabled unified messaging solution were unveiled
for use by small business to large enterprises. The 3100
and 3300 will deliver fully-featured hybrid
communications applications, while the 6530 allows users
to access, review, manage, and respond to messages in
their Microsoft Exchange 2000 Inbox using their voices.
www.mitel.com /
613.592.2122
Spectrum Unveils 2,016 VoIP And VoATM
Channels In A Single Slot
The roadmap for Spectrum Signal Processing
next-generation aXs products, which include softswitch
media gateways, trunking gateways, broadband access
gateways, high-capacity enterprise gateways, and
wireless base station transcoders, will include the
processing of 2,016 voice channels (an OC-3) per slot to
meet next-gen requirements.
www.spectrumsignal.com
/ 604.421.5422
IP Unity Offers Harmony To Voice
Response
The IP Unity platform allows service providers to
quickly and economically deploy enhanced next-gen
services that are driven by voice and speech response.
Services such as unified messaging, tele-browsing, call
activation, and Web-conferencing utilize a
carrier-class, open, and standards-based hardware and
software platform.
www.ipunity.com /
408.957.0800
Optical IP For Radio One From Yipes
Yipes Communications' gigabit optical IP networks now
supply Internet access to the Denver-based Westwind
Media division of Radio One Networks, a streaming media
provider with customers such as Lycos Radio, BET.com,
and iVillage.com. Yipes currently delivers 50 megabits
per second of bandwidth to Westwind Media over multiple
Tier 1 Internet backbones.
www.yipes.com /
415-901-2000
Avaya Increases Capacity For ECLIPS
In order to increase capacities and functionality for
customers using the ECLIPS portfolio of telephony
applications, newly upgraded call processing software
increases the number of IP ports on the Avaya Internet
Protocol Communications Server from 400 to 600, enabling
as many as 450 IP telephones. This allows companies to
grow numbers of IP users quickly and easily.
www.avaya.com /
908.953.6000
Quick Eagle Provides New IP Access
Platform
The 5800 IP Access Platform extends the bandwidth
delivery capability of the IP access lines to 12 Mbps
when eight T1 connections or six E1 connections are
aggregated in a multilink bundle. The platform is
designed to offer both multilink frame and multilink PPP
standards-based services.
www.quickeagle.com
/ 408.745.6200
AP Engines Fires Up AP Billing
Mediation Platform Availability
The AP Billing Mediation Platform for VoIP is now
generally available for service providers to begin
implementing VoIP networks, enabling them to
automatically collect accurate usage information from
new network elements without change to existing core
networks and OSS investments. It is built upon a
scalable, reliable, and flexible platform.
www.apengines.com
/ 401.438.0614
Quicknet Solves Firewall Issues
Quicknet is proud to release the upgrade of Internet
Switchboard 5.0, which enables customers to make
toll-quality calls from their PCs with the ability to
operate behind firewalls and support a new, user
friendly service for PC-to-PC calling via Quicknet's
MicroTelco System. Some of the new features include a
customizable graphical user interface, automatic fax
detection, and auto-call connect which is a rollover
feature that connects your call using the next available
carrier when the preferred carrier is unavailable.
www.quicknet.net /
415.864.5225
Single Channel Power Over LAN Device
From PowerDsine
The PowerDsine 4001 mid-span device, which connects
between any standard 10/100 Base-T Ethernet port and
wireless LAN access points or base stations, enables the
supply of data and power to be delivered through a
single line. The 4001 sends power over the unused
portion of the commonly used standard Category 5 twisted
pair (LAN) cables. The device includes a data input
connector linked to a standard 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
data port and a unified data and power output connector
linked to a Power over LAN Enabled endpoint.
www.powerdsine.com
/ 972.9.775.5118
Vpacket And VocalData Prove
Interoperability
Interoperability testing with VocalData's VOISS VoIP
softswitch and the Vpacket 6100 Series voice/data router
creates a partnership that will broaden service provider
options by permitting integration of existing PBX, key
systems, and analog devices into an all IP network
infrastructure. This will expand carriers' ability to
service all segments of the market. "Standards based
interoperability enables service providers to deliver
best of breed, carrier-grade voice services, enhanced
applications, and access solutions and allows them to
build multi-vendor networks," said Kathy Meier, vice
president of marketing for VocalData.
www.vpacket.com /
408.571.7900
www.vocaldata.com
/ 972.354.2100
New GRICdial 3.0 Delivers Enhanced
QoS
"GRICdial 3.0 delivers added versatility to global
business travelers who need to connect to the Internet
or to their home network," said Kristin Steinmetz, GRIC's
senior vice president of Global Sales and Marketing. "GRIC
has unsurpassed global network coverage, along with the
most cost-effective, secure and reliable way for an
enterprise to empower its mobile workforce." GRICdial
provides the customizable, easy-to-use remote Internet
access client software.
www.gric.com /
408.955.1920
AT&T Offers Converged Public
Telephones
The AT&T Public Phone 2000i hardware is based on the
NCR Web Kiosk platform with a 12-inch touch screen and a
payment module that accepts credit cards or cash. In
addition, the unit incorporates user interface and
system monitoring software from NetNearU. The software
can provide usage-related data including transaction
logging and revenue information. NetNearU's software
also supports remote monitoring of each kiosk, providing
operability information and initiating alerts if a unit
needs service. The Public Phone 2000i offers high-speed
access to the Internet, e-mail, and other online
services, while also allowing simultaneous phone calls.
Installation of about 25 phones is already complete at
Atlanta-Hartsfield, Dallas-Fort Worth, and JFK
International Airports. Additional installations are
scheduled for the remainder of 2001 in Phoenix, Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Newark, N.J.
www.att.com /
800.288.3199
iMagicTV and ViaGate Partner
iMagicTV has announced a partnership agreement with
Viagate Technologies, a supplier of VDSL platforms. This
enables iMagicTV to take advantage of this powerful
technology in delivering high-speed and improved quality
video over broadband to multiple televisions. iMagicTV
is working with companies like Viagate and Inovia/ECI to
deliver its open platform for television over VDSL, in
addition to ADSL, Ethernet, wireless, fiber to the home,
or any other IP-based access technology. With this
announcement, iMagicTV continues its commitment to work
towards interoperability with best of breed solutions
and with
technologies that make the most sense for service
providers and their residential customers.
www.imagictv.com /
919.678.9989
www.viagate.com /
877.842.4283
CommWorks Adds IP Support
CommWorks Corporation is adding support for Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to its line of Total Control
100 enhanced gigabit routers. The routers will support
native IPv6 over a 2.4-Gigabit per second (OC-48c) line
interface. Total Control 100 enhanced gigabit routers
with IPv6 support are available today for customer
trials, with general availability scheduled for the
third quarter of 2001. By supporting the IPv6 protocol
across the entire line of gigabit routers, CommWorks is
offering service providers a broad range of line
interfaces and more feature-rich functionality. These
routers are designed to meet service providers' needs
for reliable and efficient routing of higher densities
of packets through their networks. The routers
compliment other key elements of the CommWorks
architecture, the company's flexible, carrier-class
solution that allows service providers to scale their
infrastructure and deploy next-generation, enhanced
services.
www.commworks.com
/ 800.638.3266
Cirronet Offers Component In VitalCom's
PatientNet System
Cirronet Inc., a broadband wireless Internet access
equipment company, announced that its wireless
technology also is a key component of VitalCom's
successful PatientNet system. VitalCom is a leading
provider of real-time wireless patient information
solutions for healthcare enterprises. VitalCom's
PatientNet system creates a wireless infrastructure that
distributes patient information from multiple healthcare
locations to a central station, where it is analyzed.
The system provides caregivers with critical access to
real-time patient information, including
electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms. Cirronet's
patent-pending frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS)
wireless technology was selected by VitalCom for the
PatientNet system. In addition, it is used for Cirronet's
own WaveBolt last-mile Internet access product.
www.cirronet.com /
678.684.2000
Cisco Expands ASP and Outsource
Programs
Cisco announced an expansion of its Cisco Powered
Network program for ASPs and outsourcers who are
delivering/hosting CRM solutions based on the Cisco
customer contact software platform. Four customers: BG
Ignite, InfoNet Services, National Support Center, and
West Corporation, have received Cisco CPN designations.
I have attached the announcement below for your
reference. With this new designation, eCRM ASPs and
outsourcers can now differentiate themselves from their
competition using the Cisco Powered Network
certification to validate their secure, reliable,
high-performing service, for a broader range of customer
contact applications. Adding to pre-existing validation
services for the ICM (intelligent contact management)
component of Cisco's customer contact software platform,
Cisco now offers validation for the Email management and
Web collaboration components of the platform as well.
www.cisco.com /
408.526.7208
Symbian Enhances Wireless Internet
Offering With Opera
Symbian and Opera Software today announced an agreement
to include Opera as the default browser in Symbian's
reference designs for Communicator devices. Symbian's
reference designs for Communicators enable a wide range
of pen and keyboard based devices to be developed by
Licensees, combining voice and data communications with
powerful Internet and data capabilities, the first one
scheduled to ship being the Nokia 9210 Communicator
which will be available in the first half of 2001.
www.symbian.com /
650.598.4747
www.operasoftware.com
/ 47.24.16.40.00
The Alliance
PictureTel, First Virtual Communications, and CUseeME
Networks announced an agreement for a strategic
technology, marketing, and distribution alliance that is
expected to deliver rich media collaboration solutions
for enterprises and service providers. By combining the
three companies' audio, video, Web collaboration,
application server, multipoint server and client
technologies, this strategic alliance is expected to
create a most scalable and functional rich media
communications solution.
www.picturetel.com
/ 978.292.5000
www.fvc.com /
408.567.7200
www.cuseeme.com /
800.241.7463
Sonofon And Spike Ally To Deploy Huge
Network In Denmark
Under the terms of this agreement, Spike, a leading
provider of carrier-grade, fixed broadband wireless
access solutions, will work together with a major
international systems integrator to provide SONOFON with
more than $335 million in fixed wireless equipment. "SONOFON
has a long history of achieving profitability and
success through innovation. This is most evidenced by
both our pioneering work in Denmark with the first
mobile GSM deployments and now with the largest fixed
wireless deployment in history," said Ulrik B�low, CEO
of SONOFON.
www.sonofon.dk /
+45.80 29 29 29
www.spikebroadband.com
Telephony@Work Enhances
CallCenterAnywhere Platform
New Multi-Host Data Polling, among the new features of
the CallCenter@nywhere platform, enables ASPs and
enhanced services providers providing contact center
services to poll their clients' databases through
firewalls in order to prioritize their subscribers'
customers in queue from "up in the network" for every
form of communication based on each customer's unique
attributes and each subscriber-company's unique priority
routing rules.
www.telephonyatwork.com
/ 888.854.4224
Usage-Based Billing For Content
Apogee Networks' NetCountant Web Hosting Billing
solution enables customers to easily define new services
and rapidly create new pricing plans that identify
content by type and bill for it based on usage.
Additionally, flexible content definition that utilizes
business rules supported by the solution enables the
creation of complex pricing plans in hours or days as
opposed to weeks or months.
www.apogeenet.com
/ 201.368.8800
Shunra Welcomes The New Storm
The new STORM STX-100 WAN Emulator will add Gigabit
Ethernet support to the product line, enabling
enterprises to evaluate IP applications and solutions by
recreating WAN and Internet conditions on a LAN, making
it possible to thoroughly investigate performance prior
to costly deployments.
www.shunra.com /
201.634.8787
Centrinity Partners With Telus
Centrinity, which develops and markets unified
communications and collaborative groupware technologies,
announced that it has signed a letter of intent with
TELUS Enterprise Solutions to enter into a definitive
three-year agreement to offer its FirstClass Unified
Communications solution to TELUS's small- and
medium-sized enterprise customers across Canada.
www.centrinity.com
/ 888.808.0388
iConverse Offers Mobility Platform
The mobility platform offers a solution that enables
companies to develop and deploy an enterprise-wide
mobile initiative that provides a rich, interactive
experience for the end-user, regardless of device;
enables companies to establish a competitive
differentiation by streamlining business processes that
drive revenue and increase worker productivity;
leverages existing investments, such as Web developer
skills and implemented enterprise infrastructure,
including data sources and business applications;
maintains mobile initiatives with little effort, by
providing immediate compatibility to new devices as they
become available; limits the amount of time spent on
developing the applications, even by non-experts,
freeing-up more time to develop the business; and
creates a low cost of ownership due to easier
application management and device updates.
www.iconverse.com
/ 781.622.5050
MapBOSS Introduced For Web Storage
Issues
MapBOSS from AM Communications, is a Web-based storage
system that allows secure, multi-location, remote access
to HFC design map information across enterprise or
worldwide data networks. MapBOSS contains a collection
of auto-extraction engines that intelligently "crawl"
the maps, extracting the inventory data, the number of
homes passed in any network segment, miles of plant in
any segment, and most importantly, detailed topology
information. MapBOSS builds and stores a topology
database that contains every active and passive element
between any home and the headend. This information is
essential to advanced network management functions such
as root cause analysis and event correlation.
www.amcomm.com /
215.538.8700
Push To Talk Boosts E-mail Responses
ITXC's Push To Talk adds a unique response option to
e-mail marketing and enables recipients to take action
immediately with one push of the button over phone or
computer. Group Lotto, The Venetian Resort-Casino-Hotel,
and YesMail have successfully used ITXC's product to
increase the effectiveness of e-marketing campaigns.
www.itxc.com /
609.750.3388
nStor Provides New Storage Options
The NexStor 802S and 1202S are JBOD storage systems that
provide tremendous storage capacity in a very compact
space. The NexStor 802S can support up to eight 1"
or 1.6" drives, providing up to 1.44 TB of storage
capacity in only 3.5" (2U) of rack space when
utilizing 180 GB drives. The 1202S can support up to
twelve 1" drives, providing a total of 432 GB of
storage capacity in the same 2U form factor. To keep the
disk drives (10,000 or 15,000 RPM) cool in such densely
packed storage systems, nStor's patent-pending 2U
enclosure provides excellent airflow to keep drive
temperatures well within recommended ranges.
www.nstor.com /
858.453.9191
Cisco At The Enterprise
Cisco has introduced seven new software and hardware IP
telephony products to the Enterprise market, which work
within AVVID. The new software solutions include Cisco
Personal Assistant, Cisco Unity 2.46 unified messaging,
Cisco IP Integrated Contact Distribution (IP-ICD), the
Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services (PPS) applications
suite, the Cisco CallManager 3.1 call processing system,
and an innovative Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRS
Telephony) feature that is now part of the Cisco IOS
Software. On the hardware side, Cisco is introducing the
Catalyst 4224 Voice Gateway Switch platform.
www.cisco.com /
800.553.6387
congruency Teams With Sonus To Offer
Service To Carriers
congruency, Inc. has announced that it has joined Sonus
Networks' Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA). Members
of the OSPA provide solutions to carriers and service
providers that are complementary to Sonus' product line.
congruency will contribute its CNS 3200 Enhanced Hosted
Communications Platform and i.Picasso 6000 IP phone. "The
successful interoperability of our software platform and
IP phone with Sonus' product line will give our
customers increased flexibility when deploying
congruency's VoIP and enhanced service creation
solutions," states Ralph Hayon, president and CEO of
congruency.
www.congruency.com
/ 201.712.5590
Shoreline Makes VoIP Easier Than Ever
The Enterprise Starter Kit For IP Voice Communications
is now available from Shoreline Communications. The
suite of applications that ships with the Enterprise
Starter Kit includes voice mail, automated attendant,
personalized desktop call management, unified messaging,
and single-point Web-based management.
www.goshoreline.com
/ 877.807.4673
Avici Systems Provides MPLS/IP
Traffic
Avici is proud to announce the successful completion of
ongoing interoperability tests of its TSR scalable core
router's MPLS capabilities at George Mason University's
Advanced Internet Lab. The tests validated the
interoperability of Avici's MPLS offerings, which enable
carriers to use MPLS traffic engineering and VPNs to
roll out revenue generating, differentiated IP services.
www.avici.com /
978.964.2000
Rave's 4UAX2200 Now Available
The Rave Systems Redundant RackMount-4UAX2200, features
Sun's newest next generation technology, the power of
UltraSPARC-III integrated into a compact 4U-form factor,
rackmountable chassis. Rave Systems Redundant Rackmount
4U-AX2200 comes equipped with redundant power supplies
and hot-swap capable front accessible drives. Its
4U-form factor fits in any standard 19" rack, which
is just right for those applications where a tremendous
amount of power is required in a small space. This new
Rave Systems compact server offers a wide range of
expansion options in a 4U enclosure, with the ability to
add up to two 750Mhz UltraSPARC-III processors; up to
8GB of memory; a variety of 5.25" tape, CD-ROM or
DVD options, and 3.5" FC-AL or LVD SCSI disk
drives.
www.rave.com /
800.966.7283
ADC Launches Unified Messaging Portal
Web- and phone-based interfaces will provide access to
voice, fax, and e-mail through ADC's new Unified
Messaging Portal application, part of its Broadband
Services Platform. The UMP delivers test-to-speech
services which enable subscribers to listen to e-mail
and send e-mail attachments to a fax number. While on a
PC, subscribers will be able to record a message using
the UMP reply-to-voicemail plug-in and send it back to
the caller via their Internet connection.
www.adc.com /
952.938.8080
Ridgeway VX System Enables IP Video
Ridgeway's VX Communications System provides a high
level of security by managing video traffic through
firewalls, and sending that traffic to a determined,
trusted IP address. InView has incorporated the VX
System into its existing H.323 service package to allow
InView the ability to provide secure connectivity to
multiple endpoints from a variety of enterprise
environments by overcoming Network Address Translation
and firewall issues.
www.ridgeway.com /
512.231.7300
www.inview.net /
773.867.7052
Polycom Announces Availability Of
End-To-End Communications Solutions
Polycom's end-to-end solution combines industry-leading
communications products in video, voice and network
access and unites them through a single network
infrastructure that will continue to support IP, ATM,
ISDN and new, evolving networks. The Polycom
architecture offers a single platform for multiple
networks and a modular design that is hot-swappable,
contains self-configuring modules, redundant power
supplies, total resource-sharing capabilities, and
high-quality of service.
www.polycom.com /
800.765.9266
InterVoice-Brite Enables E-Plus
German Wireless
German mobile operator, E-Plus, is now offering
customers natural language access to a range of
information and other services. The new E-Plus Voice
Assistant, "E.V.A.," uses the Omvia product line from
iVB Network Solutions, a division of InterVoice-Brite,
to provide E-Plus customers with a single point of voice
access to a variety of services. These include live and
stored multi-media content, voice management (of
personal address books, for instance) and
voice-activated service management activities such as
telephone bill status and message access.
www.intervoice-brite.com
/ 972.454.8000
WaveSmith Welcomes New Product
Family: DN4100 & DN2100
The DN product family delivers several unique
multiservice innovations: Form factor, the Distributed
Optical Backplane and High Speed Serial Core, the
WaveCore OS, and the Open Call Model. The DN4100 is
designed for deployment in carrier central offices. The
DN2100's small form factor was built to be rolled-out in
space constrained collocation/data center facilities.
The DN4100 and DN2100 will be in beta in June 2001 and
FCS in Q4 2001.Pricing will start at $28,000 for a fully
functional system.
www.wavesmith.com
/ 801.531.8250
Advanced Fibre Communications
Announces New Packet-Powered System
"AccessMAX System 8 provides AFC customers with a
cost-effective, seamless migration from today's TDM-based
network to the evolving packet-based network," said
Mehmet Balos, senior vice president of global marketing
and North America sales for AFC. "All of our AccessMAX
systems overcome distance limitations usually associated
with broadband deployment. Now, AccessMAX System 8
delivers broadband services to any subscriber, anywhere,
any time."
www.afc.com /
707.794.7700
96 "911" Calls Per Minute Over The
Year 2000
The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet
Association officially released 2000's wireless
emergency service calls � totaling over 51 million for
the year, nearly 140,000 a day - equating to 96 calls
per minute. These calls ensure that emergency responses
to life-threatening situations are expedited and that
drunk, impaired, and aggressive drivers are reported to
the police and taken off of America's streets and
highways. "Wireless phones are the greatest safety tools
since the development of 911," stated Tom Wheeler,
president & CEO of CTIA. "Wireless phones give
individuals the upper hand in emergencies. �Time is
tissue' and wireless phones have helped save time and
tissue in emergency situations."
www.ctia.com
Sprint And Hey Anita! Team To Offer
Enhanced Mobile Services
Sprint PCS has announced the nationwide availability of
voice-enabled, Web services through Sprint PCS Voice
Command. Sprint PCS Voice Command customers will be able
to listen and respond to email, access news, stocks,
horoscopes, traffic reports, and TV updates for both
soap operas and prime time shows as well as a whole host
of other services just by pressing *TALK and speaking
into any Sprint PCS Phone. The new content is an
expansion of Sprint PCS Voice Command and is available
at no additional charge and requires no additional
set-up. Current Sprint PCS customers can conveniently
access the information using the same Voice Command
steps that they utilize today -- just press *TALK; after
the "Ready" prompt, simply say, "Call Weather," "Call
Traffic Reports" or "Call My e-mail."
www.heyanita.com /
800.44.anita
www.sprint.com /
New Management Suite From Lane 15
Lane15's Management Suite is a vendor-neutral solution
designed for InfiniBand hardware and OS vendors. With
Lane15, these vendors receive the reliable and
extensible fabric management software they need to meet
their immediate needs and accelerate the industry
adoption of their InfiniBand products. In addition,
Lane15's software is equipped to accommodate new
hardware, applications, value-added features, and major
updates to the InfiniBand specification as technology
matures.
www.lane15.com /
512.233.1515
Motorola's New MPC7440
With a core voltage of 1.5V, the MPC7440's typical power
dissipation is 11.4W at 600MHz. With integrated 256K L2
cache, the MPC7440 includes an advanced seven-stage
pipeline. While maintaining the 60x legacy bus, the
MPC7440 also implements Motorola's high bandwidth MPX
system bus, which is designed to achieve sustained
bandwidth performance of 1064 MB/sec., providing up to
four times the bus performance over earlier G3
generation processors. Additionally, a significant
increase in performance can be achieved through simply
optimizing existing software to run on the MPC7440's
AltiVec vector-processing engine. Third party automatic
vectorization tools are now available to facilitate this
software optimization without having to write custom
AltiVec code.
www.motorola.com/smartnetworks
/ 512.933.7753
Bustronic and StarGen Unveil New 21
Slot StarFabric Hybrid Backplane
The 21-slot StarFabric hybrid backplane comes in a 7U
form factor, compatible with standard 6U cards, with 1U
of power connections on the bottom. Featuring a 12 layer
controlled impedance stripline design, the outside
layers are ground for EMI protection and suppression.
The signal layers are alternated with power and ground
layers to minimize crosstalk and control impedance.
Power and ground planes use two ounces of copper for
superior power distribution. The differential pairs were
carefully routed as close together as possible and kept
on the same board layer.
www.bustronic.com
/ 510.490.7388
www.stargen.com /
508.786.9950
BeVocal Foundation Platform For
Telcos
The BeVocal Foundation Platform is designed to be easy
to deploy, manage, and maintain, resulting in a faster
time to market and a lower total cost of ownership for
carriers. BeVocal Foundation simplifies and accelerates
the deployment of new voice-enabled services that
generate revenue, reduce costs, and attract and retain
customers. In addition, BeVocal's advanced tools and
worldwide speech developer community enable carriers to
customize and differentiate their service offerings with
a broad range of high-quality voice applications that
provide a seamless user experience for callers.
www.bevocal.com /
408.907.3200
Texas Instruments Announces TCP/IP
Stack
In order to simplify network connections for DSP-based
Internet appliances, Texas Instruments is proud to
announce their new TCP/IP stack and the C6000 DSP TCP/IP
Network Developers Kit, which speeds manufacturers to
market with solutions and reduces the need for costly
network connections by more than 50 percent.
www.ti.com /
800.477.8924
100GigE Optical Ethernet Metro Core
Switch From Atrica
The A-8800 Optical Ethernet Metro Core Switch features
both 10GigE and 100GigE, as well as full optical
switching in a single carrier-class platform. The
wavelength matrix multiplexes up to 33 wavelengths of
10GigE on a single fiber, adding and dropping a
wavelength at any node. It offers full protection as
well as redundant DC power and full redundancy of all
common equipment in its 34-slot chassis.
www.atrica.com /
408.562.9400
Hi-File Network Attached Storage From
Continuous Computing
Using Continuous Computing Corporation's
high-availability middleware technology, upSuite,
Hi-File features transparent sub-second fail over and
transparent field system replication over TCP/IP. The
result is a reliable data storage device that requires
minimal amount of management.
www.ccpu.com /
858.882.8874
Universal Mode Pentium III Processor
From Force
Leveraging Force's SENTINEL PCI-to-PCI bridge
technology, the CPCI-735 and CPCI 736 SBCs are ideal for
computer telephony, packet switching, VoIP applications,
storage servers, and other demanding network
communications applications. "Force's SENTINEL PPB
technology enables system or peripheral slot
functionality on one platform," states Jochen Saal,
Force product marketing manager.
www.forcecomputers.com
/ 408.369.6000
New 6U CompactPCI SBC From Advantech
Advantech CT and Network Computing Division announces
the availability of its new CompactPCI single board
computer (SBC), the MIC-3377/M. This powerful,
all-in-one computer packs extensive features in a
compact 6U high, one-slot wide package. The MIC-3377/M
is an ideal computing solution for today's flexible,
scalable computer telephony integration (CTI) industry
supporting demanding applications such as VolP servers,
ACDs, UnPBX, fax-on-demand, video-on-demand, and more,
without compromising performance.
www.advantech.com
/ 858.623.0838
Artesyn Communications Announces New
DSP PMC Module For VoP
The PM/VoP 240, a new VoP media processing solution,
meets the requirements of high-density applications by
supporting up to 240 simultaneous voice streams on a
single PCI Mezzanine Card module. The new module is
ideal for media server and gateway applications
requiring high port density.
www.artesyn.com / 608.831.5500
Crystal Group Partners With Plesk,
Inc. To Deliver High-Density Software Appliance
The first server appliance in Crystal's RIA product
line, this new .87U server appliance comes with the
Plesk Server Administrator software pre-installed and
configured for fast deployment and superior ease of use.
It is designed to be used as a space-efficient server
appliance for a variety of hosting scenarios, either in
a dedicated or multi-Web site manner.
www.crystalpc.com
/ 319.378.1636
www.plesk.com /
703.815.5670
Efficient Networks Introduces The
SHDSL Business Gateway
The 5950 SHDSL Business Gateway complies with the new
International Telecommunications Union G.991.2
Recommendation that supports both upstream and
downstream data rates of up to 2.3 Mbps over a single
copper pair. It provides a comprehensive solution that
includes business-class security, broadband data, IP
voice and video, routing, high-availability, and
management.
www.efficient.com
/ 972.852.1000
VMIC's New PMC 2 Gigabit Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapter
The VMIPMC-5666 is a single board, highly-integrated
Fibre Channel HBA that connects a conventional PMC bus
to a two-Gigabit Fibre Channel loop, fabric, or
point-to-point Fibre Channel network. It provides two
interfaces to the host system: The command interface and
the Fibre Channel transport interface. The VMIPMC-566
incorporates ASIC which contains a 64-bit PMC host
interface.
www.vmic.com /
800.322.3616
Acterna CycloneFrame Tests IP-Based
Services On Frame Relay Networks
The new software option for the Acterna CycloneFrame IP
Optimizer, the CycloneVoIP will provide real-time
visibility and trending analysis to determine the source
of VoIP network problems that include packet loss,
jitter, and delay to ensure optimum network performance.
www.acterna.com /
301.353.1560
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