[June 28, 2000]

RadiSys Partners With Trillium To Offer Hardware And Software Carrier-Class Solutions For SS7 Applications

RadiSys Corp. announced the signing of an agreement with Trillium Digital Systems, that paves the way for the availability of carrier-class SS7solutions for communications equipment manufacturers. As a result of this partnership, RadiSys' ARTIC 1107 CompactPCI SS7 Adapter will be certified under the "Trillium on Board" partner program for both MTP-2 and High-Speed Signaling Link (HSL) board level implementations. By providing MTP-2 and HSL capability on the same adapter, RadiSys' customers can address existing SS7 infrastructure, as well as the emerging HSL infrastructure, with a single adapter.

Additionally, this certification allows for the future integration of full SS7 stacks on the ARTIC 1107. This will give RadiSys' customers a complete integrated carrier-class level of hardware and software -- featuring a system enclosure, DSP technologies and the SS7 protocol software stacks together with support for high reliability and availability -- needed to bring their SS7 applications to market at an accelerated rate. "By providing a full SS7 software stack already integrated and certified into the ARTIC 1107, our customers can focus on their core competency and not worry about the software stack integration and testing, which typically slows their time to market," said Richard Smith, Vice President, RadiSys.

"Our partnership with RadiSys will provide another path towards working with Trillium's SS7 software that will significantly decrease development work by greatly reducing the integration efforts of combining our source code onto the Radisys ARTIC 1107 platform," said Matt Semenza, director - OEM/Partner Alliances. "We are pleased by RadiSys' commitment to provide a certified Trillium on Board market solution."

RadiSys' ARTIC 1107 is a high-performance single-slot, CompactPCI adapter that provides a total of up to 128 SS7 links, giving communications equipment manufacturers the industry's leading density for carrier-class SS7 applications. The ARTIC 1107 features two PCI mezzanine cards (PMCs) which provides support for both serial (V.35, RS-449, RS-232) and channelized T1/E1/J1 SS7 and HSL worldwide. This gives customers a quicker time to market and a reduction in their integration cost, since they have fewer components to support; fewer boards to certify; and can migrate from MTP-2 to HSL as standards and their product deployments evolve.

Trillium Digital Systems' SS7 software solution enables communications equipment manufacturers to develop telephony switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, Intelligent Network (IN) and Internet Telephony gateway and gatekeeper products that can be easily implemented by customers targeting the telecom market. Trillium has licensed its proven SS7 software solutions to over 100 companies for use in a wide range of telephony, wireless and Internet gateway products.

SS7 (Signaling System 7) is the technology that allows the convergence of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet protocol (IP) networks to take place.

RadiSys' ARTIC 1107 CompactPCI SS7 Adapter with the lower level SS7 software protocol will be available in Q4.

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