[September 21, 2005] Telco Systems Gives Access201 VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter ''Extreme Makeover'' to Add New Features, New Look to Address New Opportunities Tweet BOSTON --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 19, 2005 -- Telco Systems at the Fall VON Show (booth 627) here today announced an "extreme makeover" for its Access201 VoIP Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) to give it a new look and new features to meet new market opportunities. The new Access201 was redesigned to add new features to provide VoIP service providers with a quality, cost-effective ATA for use with newer cable and DSL modems that are now coming to market with integrated routing capabilities and to help enable service providers to offer an attractively priced basic VoIP offering. Another new key capability for the new Access201 allows it to be used with traditional payphones so they can take advantage of VoIP service over a broadband Internet connection. "The new Access201 is a basic high-quality ATA that will help VoIP service providers offer different VoIP service packages at different price points," said Dave Lee, Vice President of Marketing and Services. "For a basic high-quality offering, a service provider can supply subscribers with the new Access201 and for more robust offerings use Telco Systems' Access211, Access241 or another member of our VoIP ATA product family that offer additional features such as integrated routing, voice, LAN, FXO and WAN ports." The redesign gives the Access201 a new look that reduces its footprint and updates the device's technology with performance and feature upgrades not generally found in the basic ATA market segment. Among its new capabilities, are advanced security features and sophisticated auto provisioning, auto-configuration and remote service provider trouble shooting tools found in Telco Systems' higher-end ATAs. The new Access201 also has enhanced Internet (T.38) and standard (G.711) fax capabilities. Other new features include adaptive jitter buffer to optimize voice quality over a congested Internet, distinctive ringing, anonymous call rejection and the ability to block specified callers. The Access201 was first introduced in December 2003. A few months later, Telco Systems came to market with the Access211, the first commercially available VoIP ATA that incorporated an extremely robust feature-set that included integrated routing capabilities, which simplify the set-up procedure for VoIP subscribers and reduces cost because it eliminates the need for an external router. "The overwhelming majority of the VoIP market for residential and SOHO subscribers continues to require an ATA with integrated routing and other advanced features found in our Access211, Access241 and our other VoIP ATAs," Lee said. "But as long as there is an emerging VoIP market opportunity and a VoIP service provider wanting to address a special need, we'll do whatever it takes to be there with the right ATA with the right features at the right price," he said. Lee said: "As a company that has been designing, manufacturing and supplying carrier-grade transport and access equipment to telecom carriers for 30 years, we pride ourselves on our excellent service and in bringing that same design expertise, knowledge, reliability and quality to produce a line of VoIP ATAs that provides superior value and superior voice quality." ABOUT TELCO SYSTEMS Based in Foxboro, Massachusetts, Telco Systems is a leading provider of carrier-class transport and access solutions for IP and TDM networks for carrier, service provider and enterprise markets. Its suite of products includes solutions for Metro Ethernet Access Rings, residential and enterprise VoIP, FTTx, SONET, WiFi and T1 backhaul. Founded in 1972, Telco Systems' focus is to maximize the power of their customers' networks by integrating transport, access and packet technologies onto industry-leading platforms that meet today and tomorrow's network demands. Telco Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of BATM Advanced Communications (London stock exchange ticker symbol:BVC). For more information, please visit Telco Systems' web site at http://www.telco.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]