Tut Systems Provides IP Infrastructure Connecting Residential VoIP Gateways To
Clarent's VoIP Command Center
September 7, 1999 08:01 AM
PLEASANT HILL, Calif. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ --
Tut Systems TUTS and Clarent Corporation CLRN today announced successful tests
between Tut-provided voice over IP (VoIP) residential gateways and the Clarent
Command Center with Tut's Expresso MDU system providing the underlying IP
network. The tests validated interoperability and the use of the emerging Media
Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), for linking remote VoIP gateways to central VoIP
call agents.
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Together, Tut and Clarent products can allow service providers to offer bundles of
voice over IP and high-speed Internet services over a common IP infrastructure to both
commercial and residential subscribers. In conjunction with Tut's Expresso MDU
systems, the companies' combined solution specifically addresses both commercial and
residential users located in multi-tenant properties -- such as apartments, hotels,
dormitories and multi-tenant commercial buildings.
"The benefits of adding voice to new high-speed internet access devices going into
homes and businesses are tremendous," said Richard Heaps, Chief Operating Officer,
Clarent Corporation. "Tut's Expresso systems provide high-speed IP connectivity
throughout multi-tenant unit (MTU) properties and will bring the cost and feature
benefits of VoIP all the way to the end user."
"As the leader in providing backbone voice over IP systems, Clarent is an ideal partner
for Tut," said Sal D'Auria, president of Tut Systems. "With Tut's Expresso systems
delivering consolidated VoIP traffic to Clarent-enabled backbone networks, any end
user can access global VoIP networks and services. By providing a last-mile voice over
IP infrastructure all the way to the end user, Tut and Clarent can offer service providers
a platform for advanced telephony services such as Caller ID prompts over the Internet
and remote PBX extensions for telecommuters, while maximizing their revenue per
subscriber."
Tut's MTU Market Leadership
Since the launch of Tut's Expresso MDU high-speed Internet access product in
September, 1998, Tut has become the leading provider of such high-speed systems for
the multi-dwelling unit (MDUs) -- or the hospitality and apartment markets. Today, Tut
is leveraging its success in the hospitality and apartment markets to aggressively target
the large multi-tenant commercial market (MCUs) such as shared tenant office buildings,
shopping malls, business parks, and industrial buildings. "We see the MCU market as an
important natural expansion of our existing target markets," said Sal D'Auria. "We
expect that our future products will be designed to take advantage of opportunities
within the overall MCU market as well as compliment our existing Expresso and XL
product lines which already serve this space." Tut's interoperability testing with Clarent
is evidence of another step it has taken to offer advanced, bundled services to both
MDU and MCU markets, that is, to the entire MTU market.
About the Clarent Gateway
The Clarent Gateway serves as the bridge between the Public Switched Telephone
Network (PSTN) and the Internet Protocol (IP) network, converting and mixing voice,
fax and data streams for transmission across the networks. The Clarent Gateway works
with major telephony analog and digital telephony interfaces and supports SS7 and C7
signaling. A single gateway can process up to 120 simultaneous calls, but, with server
groupings, the network can handle thousands of simultaneous calls.
About the Clarent Command Center
The Clarent Command Center is a client-server architected ODBC compliant data
processing engine which provides dynamic call routing, network management, billing,
call rating, subscriber management, and other operational support functions.
About Tut's Expresso MDU Systems
Tut's Expresso MDU is a "single box" access concentrator solution designed to sit in the
wiring closet of hotels, apartment buildings, multi-tenant commercial buildings and
dormitories to provide cost-effective, "plug and play" provisioning of high-speed Internet
access and data services. Expresso MDU incorporates Tut's HomeRun(TM) home
networking and LongRun technology to deliver data at 20 times faster than regular
dial-up modems over existing telephone wires without interruption of voice services.
About Clarent Corporation
Clarent Corporation is a premier provider of scaleable, IP telephony products to
carriers and Internet service providers around the world. Clarent's intelligent architecture
and the Clarent Command Center enable Clarent products to route, manage,
inter-connect and terminate high volumes of calls for service provider customers
including the world's largest long distance telecommunication companies. According to a
Cape Saffron report published in 1999, more minutes travel across Clarent-enabled
networks worldwide than those of any other equipment supplier.*
Founded in July 1996, Clarent is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has
offices in major cities in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Additional
information about Clarent is available at clarent.com.
About Tut Systems, Inc.
Tut Systems is a leading provider of high-speed Internet access systems for multi-tenant
buildings including apartments, dormitories, hotels and commercial properties. Tut's
Expresso MDU system integrated with Tut's award-winning HomeRun(TM) technology
allows service providers and property owners to use buildings' existing telephone wires
to cost-effectively deliver always-on Internet connections at speeds 20 times faster than
a regular dial-up modem. In partnership with service providers, Tut has deployed
Expresso MDU for some of the country's largest real estate investment trusts. Tut also
produces a line of scaleable, carrier-class digital subscriber line access multiplexers
(DSLAMs) for the local loop and a line of robust, high- speed Ethernet extension
products for campus environments. Tut's HomeRun technology has been chosen by the
Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) as the initial specification for
in-home networking over phonelines.
For more information, visit Tut's World Wide Web site at tutsys.com or
contact Tut's US Headquarters in Pleasant Hill, California, directly at 925-682-6510 or
800-998-4888.
Forward Looking Statements
This release may contain forward-looking statements regarding Clarent's products,
business, customers or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results.
Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to potential
issues relating to interoperability, inability to introduce new products, ability to retain key
customers and other factors, which could cause actual results to vary materially from
those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. These risks and
uncertainties are described further in the risk factors section of the prospectus filed with
the Securities and Exchange Agreement and effective June 30, 1999.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for
Tut Systems, Inc.:
Various matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to the planned
deployment of new products and the size and accessibility of the MTU market are
forward-looking statements. Factors may affect Tut Systems including but not limited to
the completion or product development, customer acceptance of products, the
introduction of alternative technological solutions and other risks detailed from
time-to-time in Tut Systems' SEC filings and reports.
NOTE: Clarent is a registered trademark of Clarent Corporation in the United States
and other jurisdictions. All other company or product names mentioned may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated.
* Cape Saffron "Global IP Voice/ Fax Market 1999". Cape Saffron is a UK-based
research group focused on the international voice market. capesaffron.com.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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