Digitcom Selects Natural MicroSystems Platform for
Pacific Rim IP-Phone Gateways
PR Newswire - August 08, 1998 00:19
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Digitcom Corporation (OTC Bullet
Board:
DGIV) announced today that it has chosen Natural MicroSystems' Fusion(TM) platform for
a
five-country rollout of the Digitcom IP telephony Network. The company has scheduled
installation
of its "IntraVoice" voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateways in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and
Australia, with U.S. termination in Los Angeles. Testing of the leased-line VoIP network
will occur
from late August through September with commercial service slated to launch immediately
thereafter.
"Our network requirements included easy scalability and support of international standard
protocols.
The Fusion platform meets these needs with a high performance product," observed Jimmy
Chin,
Digitcom CEO. "The Digitcom Network is engineered to deliver a variety of very
demanding IP and
Intranet telecommunications services for our customers. We're convinced that Natural
MicroSystems will be a valuable partner in the development of these advanced value-added
technologies," Chin said.
The Digitcom Network will offer users high-quality voice- and fax-over-IP, and global
voice
messaging. Products planned include enterprise- level "Intranet" IP phone service, video
conferencing and multimedia transmission for customers. Scheduled installations will make
use of a
dedicated 1.5Mbps T1 circuit, with the U.S. termination gateway housed on a Northern
Telecom
DSM-250 phone switch. Rigorous testing of all voice, switching, and administration systems
will
precede commercial launch of VoIP service to the public.
Natural MicroSystems' Fusion development platform allows for IP-phone gateways that can
grow
from 8 ports to multiple T1s/E1s with no increase in latency or decrease in performance.
This means
that from the smallest four simultaneous conversation configuration, Fusion's scalable
architecture
allows expansion to the highest port capacity gateway available today. Full use of a T1
connection
will accommodate 192 simultaneous conversations. System expansion to handle thousands of
calls is
possible with this architecture. Fusion 2.0 supports the International Telecommunications
Union
(ITU) H.323 standard, providing interoperability with other standards-compliant IP
telephony clients
and gateways from other vendors. Digitcom engineers have been developing proprietary
software
for Natural MicroSystems' NT-based platform since late 1996.
Digitcom is a leader in Internet voice communications technology. The company is
deploying its
Internet Protocol telephony products using its proprietary "IntraVoice" gateway technology
in
partnership with regional and national telephone companies internationally to establish long
distance
networks.
SOURCE Digitcom Corporation
/CONTACT: Cheryl Mitchell, Corporate communications for Digitcom
Corporation, 360-384-1710; or Daniel Baldridge of WorldVision Financial,
888-345-6060, investor relations for Digitcom Corporation/ |
