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News Release from: Adax Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 February 2004

Convergence layer brings telephony and IP together

Adax has formed a partnership with Continuous Computing Corporation to produce a convergence layer for the Adax HDC and the ATM product families for narrowband, broadband and IP signalling.

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Adax has formed a partnership with Continuous Computing Corporation (CCPU), the leading provider of high availability network service-ready platform solutions, to produce a convergence layer for the Adax HDC and the ATM product families for narrowband, broadband and IP signalling. This joint effort was created to produce a single product that services SS7, ATM and Sigtran over T1/E1, OC3 and Ethernet interfaces. Written by Adax, and jointly tested with CCPU, this product provides off-the-shelf convergence and flexibility to upgrade, change or converge network interfaces without the need to retool and retrain.

This convergence layer, which supports both conventional and DFT/HA (distributed fault tolerant/high availability) for narrowband, broadband, and Sigtran (M2UA/M2PA/SCTP) stacks simultaneously, eliminates the need for costly software integration and allows both wireline and wireless network equipment providers faster time to market, in a business climate where the demand for speed and bandwidth increases daily.

Because Adax and CCPU have many customers in common, both companies took special care to ensure that the new convergence layer retains the Trillium style interfaces: users are now assured with a familiar look and feel.

The Adax/CCPU convergence layer has built-in support for ETSI, ANSI and other regional SS7 variants.

"If your need is SS7, ATM, IP signalling or convergence among all three, Adax and CCPU now have the fully integrated and tested product set", said Dr Barry Zuckerman, Adax President and CEO.

"Adax and CCPU's customers have previously relied upon Adax to provide the lower level hardware and software elements of their SS7 network, then on CCPU to provide the higher level elements via its offering of single board computers and the Trillium upper layer SS7 software.

It was then up to the customer to integrate the two.

With this convergence layer, customers can now purchase from a single source and eliminate the need to integrate the two companies' products.

It's a great value to network equipment providers because it eliminates development costs, offers zero time-to-market and addresses current and upcoming Sigtran network requirements".

"Our joint collaboration allows us to provide our global customers with a single elegant SS7 solution", said Simon Waters, Vice President of Business Development for CCPU.

"Reducing integration time by six months, the convergence layer enables an optimised integration of the Trillium stacks with Adax line card solutions in an efficient manner and ultimately helps accelerate our customers' time to market".

The new convergence layer is available now from either CCPU or Adax.

When used with both Adax's and CCPU's high-performance and field tested hardware and software, customers are ensured a highly robust system that is both powerful and reliable.

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