August 1999
News
Alcatel To Acquire Internet Devices
Alcatel and Internet Devices have jointly announced that they have entered
into a definitive agreement under which Alcatel will acquire Internet Devices for
approximately $180 million. The acquisition of Internet Devices, together with the
technology developed at Xylan, Packet Engines, Assured Access, and Alcatel's Internet
Access Division, provides Alcatel with a strong platform to address the emerging market
for intelligent IP-based platforms. IP-based Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) allow
service providers and business customers to manage and protect intranets and extranets
across the Internet, offering the same services, quality, and protection as on current
private corporate networks. Alcatel will market Internet Devices' existing standalone
products and will also integrate the technology into its portfolio of Internet products
and solutions.
No. 501, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Catapult Supports H.323 Interoperability Testing
Catapult has announced a new H.323 Protocol Module for its test systems. This
enhancement will help developers and manufacturers of gateways, gatekeepers, MCUs and
H.323 terminal equipment ensure interoperability between all entities of the H.323 system.
Customers worldwide can benefit from using Catapult test systems to create scripts which
simulate various H.323 entities, without actually purchasing a number of H.323 terminals
for testing. In addition, customers can also simulate the switched circuit network side
(for example, ISDN and ISUP), which is of key importance when testing gateways.
No. 502, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Nuera Intros Open Reliable Communications Architecture
Nuera Communications' Open Reliable Communications Architecture (ORCA)
integrates voice, fax, and telephony signaling and services over next-generation networks.
Primary components of the ORCA system include gateways based on embedded systems designed
and developed by Nuera, scalable Unix-based softswitched call processing control systems,
and Microsoft NT-based applications server and network management systems. The ORCA
product line offers superior quality voice and fax over IP, frame relay and ATM, leased
circuit, satellite, and fixed wireless links. It features access to state-of-the-art 1600
MIPS DSP resources for every voice/fax channel, and also offers patented E-CELP vocoder
technology for efficient delivery of high-quality voice in packet environments.
No. 503, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
EMS Announces itelfacs
Enterprise Messaging Services (EMS) has announced its itelfacs family of
Internet-enabled fax products and services. Organizations using the itelfacs family of
products can reduce long-distance charges, improve document security, send and receive fax
documents to and from any individual employee's computer, and remotely retrieve faxes from
anywhere in the world. itelfacs products function like a fax manager. They intercept all
incoming faxes and route them to the appropriate individual's PC wherever they are located
at that time - in-house, at their home office, or travelling around the world. itelfacs
also intercepts all outgoing faxes and determines how to route the fax most cost
effectively. In addition, itelfacs products operate transparently to users, can be
remotely configured and maintained, are automatically updated, and can generate reports on
costs, usage, and calling patterns.
No. 504, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Tekelec Intros IP7 Product Suite for Telcos, ISPs
Tekelec has announced a new line of products designed to enable the
convergence of voice and data networks. The IP7 product line delivers flexible Signaling
System 7 (SS7) and Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity and features to allow carriers and
service providers to seamlessly link the public switched telephony and IP networks.
Tekelec's products couple the command and control functions of the SS7 network with the
speed and economy of the IP network, and include IP maintenance, monitoring, and
diagnostics. The initial product offering includes IP7 Secure Gateway, IP7 Edge, IP7 NP
(number portability/number pooling), and IP7 Sentinel. Capabilities include signaling for
voice over packet, Internet access, remote access, savings in point code allocation,
immediate value-added new service deployment, and dial offload solutions
No. 505, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Ericsson Announces IPT 1.6
Ericsson Datacom has announced its IP telephony solution version 1.6 (IPT
1.6), a high-capacity, SS7-interoperable platform that gives carriers the ability to offer
worldwide IP telephony services such as call forwarding, call waiting, and toll-free
calling. IPT 1.6 can hold up to 780 channels in one chassis with a maximum of six chassis
to a rack for a total of 4,680 channels. In addition, Ericsson is able to provide
increased network efficiency due to the addition of lower bit-rate codecs, which translate
the analog signals of the public telephone network to digital signals for the IP telephony
network, and vice versa. These industry standard, lower bit-rate codecs, G729.A and
G723.1, allow for greater voice quality and lower bandwidth requirements.
No. 506, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
PulsePoint Intros Newest Generation Enhanced Application Platform
PulsePoint Communications has announced the addition of two new members to
its family of PulsePoint Enhanced Application Platforms (EAP), based entirely on Microsoft
Windows NT Server, using CompactPCI technology. These products, introduced as PulsePoint
eap.1000 and PulsePoint eap.2000, deliver carrier-class applications in a standard Windows
NT environment to carriers who require central-office packaging and extraordinary
reliability of their enhanced services. The EAP can be used in high growth markets,
scaling to accommodate the needs of carriers, using common platform architecture.
PulsePoint and Unisys also have announced that they have signed an agreement for Unisys to
acquire PulsePoint in a tax-free, stock-for-stock merger, with a value of approximately
$100 million on a fully diluted basis.
No. 507, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Ulticom Launches Nexworx Product Line
Ulticom, which recently changed its name from DGM&S Telecom, has
announced the new line of Nexworx software solutions components. Nexworx products provide
the necessary software elements to build a next-generation network. Nexworx Signaling
Gateway offers seamless connectivity by bridging the new data technology employed by IP
with existing SS7-based voice and wireless network services. Nexworx Media Gateway
Controller manages calls with voice, data, and video network components. Nexworx
Application Server reduces the costs of in-network services. Nexworx Programmable Network
Server opens the world of enhanced revenue services to third party developers via the
Parlay API. Nexworx incorporates Ulticom's SignalWare technology and is software-driven,
employing open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to address the need for service
portability between telecommunications network signaling (SS7) and IP-driven networks.
No. 508, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
MIL3 Delivers OPNET Modeler 6.0
MIL 3 has announced the availability of OPNET Modeler Version 6.0 with an
enhanced model library that makes it the first commercial software with the ability to
verify quality-of-service (QoS) capabilities for devices designed to carry voice and
multimedia traffic over ATM, frame relay, and IP networks. OPNET Modeler projects the
real-word performance of proposed systems to quickly asses their ability to support QoS
specifications, such as ATM ABR (available bit rate), IP ToS (type of service) and WFQ
(weighted fair queuing), required to carry time-sensitive packet transmissions. OPNET
Modeler Version 6.0 supports HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and Microsoft Windows NT natively. Models
can be shared freely between the operating systems.
No. 509, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Adax Introduces Channelized Controller
Adax has introduced an eight-port channelized HDLC protocol controller for
the industry-standard Compact PCI (cPCI) bus that delivers increased call capacity for
wireless applications, mobile IP, and large billing systems. Adax's ACT 4/8-cPCI board is
designed to meet the growing demand in telecommunications and data communications for
higher port densities. The ACT 4/8 board can support Frame Relay, voice, wireless, X.25,
and data applications all on the same platform. The ACT 4/8 accepts up to eight fully
channelized T1 or E1 trunks in a single cPCI slot and its scalable architecture allows the
installation of up to eight boards on a single cPCI backplane. It supports up to 2,048 DS0
connections in an eight-slot cPCI chassis, and increases call capacity resulting in a
lower price per port.
No. 510, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Alcatel Intros New Integrated Platform
Alcatel has announced an integrated platform for delivering scalable,
feature-rich voice, fax, and data services over the new public network. The integrated
product enables service providers to provision voice-over-IP services - with many of the
advanced calling features found only in today's circuit switched voice network - using the
same physical interface as data and fax services. The integrated voice, fax, and data
product is composed of five key components, including Assured Access' NEBS level-3
compliant Universal Access Gateway, a highly scalable product that supports voice, fax,
and dial-up data (V.90, ISDN) on the same physical interface, enabling service providers
to provision all three services in a cost-effective manner. The other four components are:
Alcatel's 1135 Service Management Center/Gatekeeper, the Alcatel Call Signaling Gateway,
and Alcatel's IN 1400 Service Control Point and Service Creation Environment.
No. 511, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
GDC Announces New Convergence Switch Family
General DataComm has announced its NexEra convergence switch family for IP,
data, and telephony. This carrier-class edge platform offers rapid start up, high
profitability, and new business opportunities based on features including variable bit
rate, toll-quality packetized voice; advanced voice and broadband signaling features; high
port densities; and extensive international protocol support. NexEra also offers advanced
traffic management, including Multi-Tier Traffic Shaping (MTS). NexEra is designed to meet
the needs of new-generation networks, and it enables carriers to offer Virtual Private
Networks for voice and data, "last mile" ATM and IP services, subscriber
aggregation and switching for DSLAM access networks, and national and international voice
backhaul, bypass, and switching.
No. 512, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Telogy Announces V/FoIP Software For TI TMS320VC5402 DSP
Telogy Networks has announced the availability of Golden Gateway voice and
fax over IP (V/FoIP) software for Texas Instruments' low cost, low-density TMS320VC5402
digital signal processor (DSP). Golden Gateway currently runs on TI's 'C548, 'C549, and
'C5420 processors, delivering a broad range of voice, fax, and data over IP capabilities
for enterprise-gateway and carrier-class equipment. Support for the new 'C5409 gives
Telogy customers a solution for one- to four port client products. Texas Instruments has
announced that it will acquire Telogy. The acquisition is being made through a
stock-for-stock transaction, and TI expects to issue 4.1 million shares in connection with
the transaction worth about $435 million.
No. 513, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Nortel Intros Next-Gen Internet Telephony For Enterprises
Nortel Networks has unveiled an Internet telephony strategy for enterprises,
including 11 new products and enhancements to classic products that unify the worlds of
telephony and data. Nortel's strategy provides enterprises with new solutions founded on
its Internet Communications Architecture (Inca) - an IP architecture based on open
standards. Nortel has introduced its portfolio of open, IP-based telephony solutions for
unified voice, data, and video applications based on Inca. Several new products are
scheduled for availability within the next year, including the Inca M10 Communication
System, which will be built on a policy-based network infrastructure and on an industry
standard Windows NT Server. The M10 connection manager will support both classic analog
telephone sets and Nortel's new i2004 Internet Telephones and H.323 softphone clients.
No. 517, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Force Computers Launches Centellis 8000 Series
Force Computers, a Solectron subsidiary, has introduced the Centellis 8730 -
the first of its new Centellis 8000 Series of high-reliability, eight-slot CompactPCI
servers. The Windows NT-based Centellis 8730 brings redundant components and extensive
hot-swappability options to mid-range CompactPCI computing. Powered by an Intel 333 MHz
Pentium II processor-Low Power module, the Centellis 8730 provides customers with a
cost-effective development and easily upgraded runtime environment for Windows NT-based
applications. Eight CompactPCI slots and five storage bays enable customers to deploy
precisely tailored solutions for a wide range of communications, C3I, and industrial
control applications. The Centellis 8730 also supports the CompactPCI full hot swap
specification for I/O boards. This enables users to add, remove, or exchange CompactPCI
I/O boards without taking their Centellis 8730 server offline.
No. 518, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
White Pine To Support Linux For IP Conferencing Solution
White Pine Software has announced plans to support the Linux operating system
for its MeetingPoint conference server. White Pine has joined as a Developer Partner with
Red Hat, and will work with their support to develop a robust IP conferencing server
solution for the Linux platform. MeetingPoint is currently available for Windows NT and
Sun Solaris operating systems. White Pine has the flexibility to develop for dynamic new
operating systems such as Linux because MeetingPoint is a software-based server solution.
Other video conferencing suppliers operate on proprietary hardware platforms, making
future Linux support problematic. MeetingPoint for Linux will give ISP and carrier
providers the opportunity to provide a new service on their existing hardware, and to take
advantage of the stability and performance of the Linux operating system.
No. 519, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
MiTAC Intros New 19-Inch Chassis
MiTAC Industrial has introduced the MCH-502, a new configurable 19-inch
rackmount chassis with built-in 10.4-inch flat panel display. This space-efficient unit is
engineered to fit today's market demands for an easy-to-use operator interface with
optimal performance in a seamless rack-mountable or desktop chassis with a motherboard or
passive backplanes. With a passive or active matrix color LCD, this 14-slot steel
constructed chassis has optionally redundant hot-swappable power supplies. The MCH-502
provides a high performance motherboard or industrial SBC solution with backplane in a
variety of choices from 14-slot ISA or 13-slot PCI to configurable 13-slot PICMG (7 ISA, 4
PCI, 2 PICMG slots), 14-slot PICMG (8 ISA, 4 PCI, 2 PICMG slots), or 140slot PICMG (6 ISA,
7 PCI, 2PICMG).
No. 520, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
IMTC Becomes Home For iNOW! Initiative
The International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC) and ITXC have
announced that an IMTC Activity Group specifically focused on enhancing and furthering
real world interoperability enabled by the iNOW! Profile has been established. The current
version of the iNOW! Profile will be the initial input into the new activity group,
forming the basis for study under IMTC's formal processes, with the goal of publication of
an approved IMTC interoperability agreement. In addition, the IMTC will work with the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) TIPHON and ITU-T Study Group 16 to
make sure the iNOW! Profile is harmonized with their specifications.
No. 521, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Lucent To Trial Technology That Brings Wireline Voice Quality To
Wireless LAN
Lucent Technologies has announced that it will conduct market trials of
voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology that enables wireless local area networks to carry voice
calls with QoS for unlicensed wireless IP networks. The technology developed by Bell Labs
will allow businesses to deploy converged voice and data applications on wireless IP
networks without sacrificing voice quality. The Bell Labs technology enables voice to
travel over Lucent's WaveLAN wireless local area networks - or any compatible IEEE 802.11
wireless LAN - without the loss, delay, or poor voice quality that might be experienced as
voice calls move over LANs.
No. 522, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
iFace.com Releases V. 2.0 Of USS-I Switching Software
iFace.com has announced the general release of Version 2.0 of USS-I switching
software, a platform independent applications suite. Version 2.0 adds VoIP, VoATM, support
for the Oracle DBMS, and a number of new features including Post Call Taxing. These
additions enhance the functionality of the iFace.com middleware and application suite that
inlcude static and dynamic LCR, multiple rate table and reseller support. The application
suite currently features pre- and post-paid calling cards, tandem switching, ICB, 1+, and
click-to-call. This release supports up to 20 Spans of T1 or E1 telephony in a single open
systems platform. Multiple platforms can be linked together with ATM to create a system of
unlimited size. iFace has also announced their support of the iNOW! interoperability
initiative.
No. 523, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
TollBridge Technologies Announces Multiline Voice Over DSL For
CLECs
TollBridge Technologies has introduced an IP-based solution that allows
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) to deliver all current voice services over DSL
or any broadband access technology. TollBridge's TollVoice system works with any Class 5
switch and acts as a simple, end-to-end overlay to broadband access networks. Designed for
LEC bypass, the TollBridge product set consists of three elements: TB50, Customer Premise
Equipment (CPE) that converts voice samples from multiple calls into a single IP packet,
and prioritizes voice and data traffic for transmission over any broadband access network;
TB200, a carrier-grade voice gateway that translates packets back into voice and connects
to Class 5 switches using the Bellcore GR-303 protocol; and TB-EMS, a graphical Element
Management System for end-to-end configuration, troubleshooting, and performance
management of up to 100 TB200 systems from HP OpenView or Solaris platforms.
No. 524, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Tellabs Intros Next-Gen Voice/Data Switch
Tellabs has announced a next-generation switching system that enables service
providers to consolidate circuit-switched and variable bit rate data services over a
single, broadband network. The AN2100 Gateway Exchange (GX) system dynamically routes
circuit-switched, time-division multiplexed (TDM) traffic over asynchronous transfer mode
(ATM) and Internet Protocol (IP) networks under Signaling System 7 (SS7) control. With the
AN2100 GX system, data, voice, and video services can be delivered over ATM or IP
backbones. The AN2100 GX system incorporates media adaptation, call processing, SS7
signaling, and service creation functions into a flexible, scalable platform, which
enables service providers to reduce costs and create revenue-generating services faster
than traditional methods.
No. 525, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
NeTrue Releases QoS Monitoring Software For VoIP Industry
NeTrue Communications has announced the release of NeTrueQoS 1.0, a real-time
IP network QoS monitoring software product. NeTrueQoS provides IP telephony service
providers and next generation carriers (NGC) with the technology to monitor and manage
their mission-critical IP-based operations. NeTrue QoS monitors all elements of the
connection's performance, including throughput, latency, jitter, lost packets, and
bandwidth usage. NeTrueQoS measures performance and displays the results in real-time
through a graphical user interface. NeTrue QoS provides monitoring reports on the
performance of remote connections on the network, to offer a complete QoS network
analysis. This report can be compiled to depict the history of a network's QoS, providing
statistical analysis of the QoS parameters.
No. 526, www.itmag.com/freeinfo
Voice Density Doubled For the Praxon PDX
Praxon has announced a new 32-port voice module for the Praxon Phone Data eXhance
(PDX) that doubles the port density and decreases the per-port cost of the Praxon
solution. The company also announced that the PDX now supports personal information
management (PIM) software, which streamlines voice communications for busy professionals.
The new 32-port voice module doubles the density of its predecessor voice card. When
configured with two 32-port voice modules, the Praxon PDX can support a total of 64
on-premises users and an unlimited number of off-site virtual extensions. The 32-port
voice module can also be mixed in the same chassis with an existing 16-port card for
incremental upgrade at minimal investment.
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