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Blue Wave Launches ComStruct CPCI/C5441
Blue Wave Systems has launched a new packet processing hardware platform. The ComStruct CPCI/C5441 provides OEMs with up to 672 channels, each of which can provide compressed voice or fax relay over IP or ATM in a single CompactCPI slot. It uses the programmable TMS320VC5441 DSP platform from Texas Instruments and Telogy Software. The ComStruct CPCI/C5441 provides direct termination of multiple T1/E1 or T3/E3 and can use the H.110 interface for in-chassis call distribution and to support external line termination. It is designed for use in HA environments through the incorporation of HA drivers and an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) as well as a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management interface and hot swap capability. The CPCI/C5441 will initially run under the Solaris 2.8 64 bit operating system and Linux. It will be available to customers in the third quarter of this year.
www.bluews.com
AT&T Signs Purchase Agreement With FVC.COM
FVC.COM has announced that it has signed a procurement agreement with AT&T. Pursuant to the agreement, AT&T purchased FVC.COM’s Click To Meet Version II solution, generating $1.4 million in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2000. FVC.COM’s Click To Meet Version II, unveiled in December 2000, is a turnkey rich media communications platform that is designed to integrate IP, ISDN, ATM, DSL, and frame relay network standards for use in the delivery of video and audio telephony, data collaboration, and streaming applications. Click To Meet operates over the broadband Internet and enterprise intranets. According to Frost & Sullivan, AT&T currently holds 58 percent of the video conferencing services market in the United States. Other major FVC.COM deployments include Wind Telecommunications in Italy, Saudi Aramco, Daimler Chrysler, and the United States Army National Guard.
www.fvc.com
Garmin Announces eMap Deluxe GPS
Garmin, Ltd. has recently announced new products, including the eMap Deluxe GPS, a compact, handheld, 12-channel GPS offering detailed mapping capability. It features a built-in detailed base map for North America, and additional map data may be uploaded to eMap from optional MapSource CD-ROM products. Other features include a backlit display and 14-hour battery life. The water-resistant GPS includes a PC interface cable and an 8 MB datacard. An optional 16 MB datacard for greater map data storage is also available. The company also recently announced its initial public offering of 10.5 million common shares at a price of $14 per share.
www.garmin.com
Cabletron To Establish Four Independent
Operating Companies
Cabletron Systems announced that it plans to fundamentally transform its business through the formation of four independent operating companies. These companies
-- Riverstone Networks, Enterasys Networks, Global Network Technology Services, and Aprisma Management
Technologies -- will focus on the key high growth areas of the communications marketplace: service provider, enterprise e-business, professional services and infrastructure management. “We believe that the business is capable of vastly accelerated growth in these key markets. Our action today has a single purpose
-- to give us the focus and agility to seize these market opportunities and better serve our customers,” said Piyush Patel, Cabletron’s CEO and president. “Each of these companies will speak with clarity of purpose to its shareholders, customers, partners, and employees.” Although the companies will initially be subsidiaries of Cabletron, the eventual goal is to have four separate, publicly traded companies. The transformation will complete the company’s realignment of its operations and organizational structure begun several quarters ago and build on the revenue momentum, technological leadership and strong balance sheet it has developed over the last several months.
www.cabletron.com
Wirenix Announces Partnership With Data
Exchange
Wirenix announced that it is partnering with DataExchange, Inc. (DEI) to finalize the integration of DEI’s unified messaging service with the Wirenix personal assistance manager/voice portal product suite. In addition to the integration effort, both companies will cooperate under a marketing and technology alliance to better promote the product, while ensuring rapid market delivery. The combined products will utilize advanced speech recognition to provide an efficient method to access these personal productivity services.
www.wirenix.com, www.dataxchangeinc.com
TI Announces New VoIP Products
Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a new set of integrated silicon and software solutions for the converging voice and data markets. These new solutions for VoIP gateway equipment are expected to usher in a host of new broadband services, such as personalized high speed internet and voice services, telecommuter services, unified messaging, and integrated voice and Web-enabled call center support. The integration of TI’s Telogy VoIP Software and TI programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) enables the highest quality transmission of very high volumes of voice and fax traffic over the Internet and other packet networks.
www.texasinstruments.com
AIC Releases New Rackmount Chassis
Advanced Industrial Computer has announced the release of the RMC4DL 4U rackmount chassis. Sixteen hot-swappable external hard drive bays provide solutions for network attached storage (NAS), storage attached networks (SAN), RAID systems, streaming media, Web server, and other applications. Three 80 mm air-bearing fans are mounted on the front panel to create suction into the chassis, and three 120 mm ball bearing fans are positioned in the middle of the chassis to carry the draft out through the rear. With 16 hard drives running simultaneously, the six-fan configuration creates a draft to keep the system running indefinitely at an optimum temperature level.
www.aicipc.com
Preferred Voice Selects Crystal Group
Preferred Voice (PVI) has announced that the company has entered into a long-term agreement to purchase and deploy high-density speech recognition interface systems manufactured and supported by Crystal Group. PVI and Crystal have designed a high-density system capable of serving over one million users (ANIs) and handle up to 750,000 calls per hour. This new system will allow PVI to deploy any or all of its voice recognition services through any telecommunications carrier, regardless of the size of their subscription base. Through the HD system, up to 1,920 telephony ports can be placed in one rack of equipment, and the racks can be linked together to provide additional telephony ports. The system is expandable in modules of 24, 48, and 96 ports. Additionally, Crystal Group will provide Preferred Voice with favorable payment terms, as well as technical support services, on an ongoing basis. The first system installations are scheduled to begin this quarter.
www.preferredvoice.com, www.crystalpc.com
Amtelco Granted Patent For ePOP
Amtelco has received a U.S. patent for its ePOP process, officially titled a Telephone Number/Web Page Look-up Apparatus and Method. “The applications for this patent, the ePOP process, have wide-ranging potential for the contact center industry, the wireless industry, and many others,” according to Tom Curtain, corporate president. “ePOP software associates an incoming call with an Internet page. Your phone rings and simultaneously your PC screen displays the caller’s Web site. Or better yet, it displays the caller’s contact management record. ePOP can be applied to any phone or Web-enabled device, such as digital wireless phones, PCs, PDAs, and literally any Web-enabled technology. Any contact center vendor, wireless vendor, or contact management software supplier may integrate ePOP into their application.”
www.amtelco.com
RadiSys Introduces EPC-2323
RadiSys has introduced a next-generation embedded solution geared to deliver high system performance for PCI-based telecommunications and data communications applications, supporting both ISA and PCI bus interfaces. The EPC-2323 is based on the Intel Pentium III Flip Chip PGA processor with 256 KB of on-chip Level-2 cache and the 440GX chipset. It satisfies large throughput needs by providing processor speeds of 700 or 850 MHz and up to 1024 MB of PC-100 ECC SDRAM. The EPC-2323 also serves as a direct upgrade for RadiSys’s EPC-2221 and EPC-2321. It uses the Embedded Intel Architecture Division (EID) Pentium III processor in a Flip Chip PGA package. The use of the Flip Chip PGA package also allows for future upgrade options with faster processors.
www.radisys.com
Praxon Announces PDX With ICOS 2.0
Praxon has announced an advanced operating and application software solution for the Praxon Phone Data eXchange (PDX). The Praxon PDX with ICOS 2.0 is based on a scalable architecture that includes new features such as automated receptionist, automated call distribution, call queuing, fax server capabilities, an enhanced user/administrator interface, and a software platform that will incorporate future technologies such as VoIP and VoDSL. Praxon provides a fully-featured PBX with an automated company and personal automated attendant. The Praxon PDX with ICOS 2.0 connects to the LAN and shared network devices. The product includes an e-mail server, an intranet Web server, and a fax server. It provides unified messaging functionality by incorporating communication technologies through integrated e-mail, voice mail, faxing, and paging. It also allows shared Internet access for all employees in the office via all types of connection lines, including analog, ISDN BRI/PRI, T1, frame relay, DSL, or cable. Additionally, it incorporates a router with an Internet firewall for security.
www.praxon.com
Agilera Partners With Frontstep
Agilera has announced a partnership with Frontstep. As part of this agreement, Agilera will sell the Frontstep e-business suite as a hosted solution to enable its customers to achieve supply chain synchronization and seamless coordination and integration of trading partners, suppliers, and distributors. Agilera will deploy the Frontstep e-business suite in a technical architecture developed in conjunction with Frontstep to facilitate integration with other hosted applications. This extension of the built-in integration capabilities of the Frontstep e-business suite will further streamline integration for customers using other enterprise applications hosted by Agilera. In this way, Frontstep’s supply chain solution can link manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers that use a variety of back-end systems.
www.frontstep.com, www.agilera.com
NMS Unveils New PowerAccess Architecture
Natural MicroSystems has introduced its PowerAccess architecture, capable of supporting over 10,000 ports in a single cPCI chassis and reducing the cost to produce broadband access switches and access gateways to $30 per port. In the case of broadband access switches, PowerAccess technology will enable developers to build solutions competitive with the more expensive Class 5 telecommunications switches. Initial NMS products enabled with PowerAccess are the PA HYPER-T3 DS-3/STS-1 broadband access adapter, the PA-16 T1/E1 broadband access adapter, and the PA200 VoB ATM platform. The architecture features the PowerAccess bus, an external, parallel TDM bus similar to the H.110 TDM data bus specified by cPCI. The PowerAccess bus complements the H.110 bus by doubling the number of voice ports to a cPCI chassis. The PowerAccess bus can be partitioned to connect groups of PowerAccess boards via cable between rear I/O connectors.
www.nmss.com
Ixthos Announces PMC Module
Ixthos has recenetly announced a user-programmable and highly flexible general purpose PMC card that allows the designer to uniquely configure the module to meet virtually any I/O need for applications, including RapidIP implementation. The new PMC GPIO-1 provides 64 user-defined, bi-directional, single-ended or differential I/O signals, with each signal presenting the option of driving or receiving either LVDS, LVTTL, CMOS, another other levels, with on-board termination. The GPIO-1 presents a high performance 64-bit wide, 66 MHz PCI interface to the baseboard with up to 256 MB of on-board SDRAM memory and furnishes DMA and interrupt capabilities.
www.ixthos.com
Rockwell Announces Panoramic Professional Services
Rockwell Electronic Commerce has announced an enhanced professional services and systems integration group, aimed at providing customers with targeted contact center applications to facilitate CRM solutions. Panoramic Professional Services leverages Rockwell’s customer contact experience in integrating voice and data across the enterprise. Rockwell’s packaged and custom services complement enterprise-wide services already offered by the company’s channel partners. Services are available to integrate existing business systems with e-commerce, CRM, and traditional contact center applications. Packaged services include contact center technology analysis (comprehensive analysis of the contact center, business rules and goals, and future needs), discovery (analysis of existing product and technology environment as it relates to specific implementation activities), network diagnostic evaluation and analysis, multimedia application development, voice and data integration, and Rockwell Spectrum automatic contact routing system audit and contact flow analysis.
www.ec.rockwell.com
CTI2 Selects RADVision For Unified Communications Platform
CTI2 has chosen RADVision’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323 technology for integration into its World Wide virtual Office (W.W.Office) platform. RADVision’s high-performance technology will enable carrier-grade enhanced unified communications services.
CTI2 will use RADVision’s SIP and H.323 toolkits to initiate, manage and terminate voice, fax, and video sessions across packet networks. With the integration of RADVision’s industry standard SIP and H.323 IP communications protocols, W.W.Office can provide IP-centric services that interoperate with existing telephony systems and provide necessary call control capability and mobility.
www.cti2.com, www.radvision.com
Net2Phone, HeyAnita Partner
Net2Phone and HeyAnita will jointly market end-to-end voice hosting solutions to enterprises, call centers, broadband service providers, and its established user base. Net2Phone will provide the telephony infrastructure and hosting platform and HeyAnita will build voice applications, and provide support and professional services.
www.net2phone.com, www.heyanita.com
eConvergent, eFORTIFY Form eCRM Alliance
eConvergent announced an alliance with eFORTIFY, a division of Information Management Associates, Inc. (IMA). Through this partnership, eFORTIFY and eConvergent will provide companies with best-of-breed eCRM business solutions customized and integrated for individual
organizations. eConvergent and eFORTIFY will offer a set of proven, complementary eCRM products and technologies to new clients, and as a channel-enablement option for IMA’s established Global 2000 client base.
www.econvergent.com, www.efortify.com
ADLINK Intros New CompactPCI
ADLINK Technology has introduced the cPCIS-3120/3140 Series. This new fault-resiliant line of CompactPCI (cPCI) systems is 8U-high compartmentalized 19-inch rack mount chassis with rear entry access to the backplane I/O. Separated in three compartments, the cPCI-3120/3140 Series deploys a single board computer, seven peripheral cPCI boards, two front access removable fans, and hard disk drives, CD-ROM, and floppy. In ADLINKS’s cPCI-3120/3140 Series’s front and rear-accessed design with securable doors, three basic compartments provide accommodating room for a complete CTI subsystem.
www.adlinktechnology.com
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