BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999--Adax, a
leading supplier of communications boards and protocol software,
announced the migration of its SS7 solution onto the CompactPCI
platform.
The Adax SS7 solution helps telco companies respond rapidly to
customer needs and market conditions by maximizing common channel
signaling power and offering the advantages of CompactPCI: the
flexibility of front and rear panel connections; the simplified
backpanel wiring of the H.110 telco bus; and a more rugged,
serviceable, and hot-pluggable hardware environment for telco,
industrial, and other high reliability applications. The Adax solution
helps customers get to market fast in this increasingly competitive
market.
Adax's two-port APC7-cPCI board and APS-SS7 software deliver very
high bandwidth (greater than 90%) to the SS7 application and minimize
server usage. This leaves plenty of horsepower for applications like
adjunct processing and intelligent switching, resulting in more calls
or transactions per line and more revenue. The solution delivers
complete MTP1 and MTP2 data communication control conforming to the
ITU, ANSI, BELLCORE, and AT&T versions of SS7. Upper-level stacks,
such as TCAP, ISUP, TUP, and MTP3 from any vendor can be integrated
with the APC7 board through a well-defined AT&T Streams-based API to
MTP2 without having to change any of the layers of SS7 software. A
four-port version will be available in the first quarter of 2000 and
will address higher port density needs.
"We provide a significant advantage for leading-edge telco
companies," said Adax President Barry Zuckerman, Ph.D. "We can deliver
up to 32 ports in a single-box SS7 solution and can grow linearly
without degradation of performance because each port on our SS7 board
has a dedicated co-processor and we have a fully scaleable driver.
Telcos get more calls per second per line and less demand on the main
CPU. This is very similar to our High-Speed Link for SS7 over ATM."
Adax delivers high-performance connections at full T1/E1 and
fractional T3/E3 speeds to either the Internet, virtual private
network, or a private leased line through a network controller
daughter card (ANC-TCX) that attaches to the SS7 CompactPCI board. The
ANC-TCX provides direct connections to the WAN and creates a one-slot
solution. It also performs the CSU/DSU function as well as channel
bank, multiplexing, and drop and insert functions.
The Adax CompactPCI boards operate on open systems-based hardware
platforms, such as Intel, Sun, IBM RS/6000, or HP Servers and all the
predominant UNIX and Windows NT operating systems. Customer code
typically sits on top in the upper layers and communicates with the
Adax lower layers through a standard AT&T UNIX Streams DLPI Interface
that makes implementation of layer 2 and below transparent to the
higher layers. These factors make integration or transfer simple and
preserve a customer's software investment.
All of Adax's CompactPCI boards contain the Avalanche Chip -- an
Adax-designed chip that gives the host CPU preferential access to the
board's memory and supports plug and play. The chip allows the
CompactPCI boards to take full advantage of the 133 MBps data transfer
rate over the bus and perform at up to 22 Mbps through the serial line
interfaces.
About Adax
Founded in 1982, Adax designs, develops, and supports Wide Area
Network (WAN) software and hardware solutions for telecommunications
and high-value datacom customers. Adax solutions support all the major
communications protocols by addressing protocol processing in OSI
model layers 1-3. These WAN connectivity solutions maximize bandwidth
utilization and minimize server usage for server-based applications
(wireline and wireless), such as adjunct processing, Internet/intranet
access, intelligent switching, and digital media. Software/hardware
solutions include HDLC, SS7, Frame Relay, X.25, ATM, Advanced Protocol
Controllers (APC line) with T1/E1 and T3/E3 interfaces, channelized
T1/E1 protocol controllers (ACT line), and board-based CSU/DSUs (ANC
line). Adax has a comprehensive product matrix for SS7 and Intelligent
Networks that includes a range of SS7 protocol controllers, network
controllers, associated software, and APIs. For more information about
Adax, visit www.adax.com or call Adax's sales department at
510/548-7047.
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