Thursday February 24, 7:04 am Eastern Time
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ADC Announces OEM Deal with MasterMind Technologies for NewNet Connect7 Platform
Business Editors & High-Tech Writers
CeBIT 2000
Hall, 17, Stand C16/1
CTIA Wireless 2000
Booth No. 4813
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000--
Mastermind selects NewNet Connect7(TM), host-independent
SS7 platform, to be key component of its switching and
interactive voice response products
ADC will be exhibiting at CeBIT 2000 in Hannover (Hall 17, Stand
No. C16/1) and at CTIA Wireless 2000 in New Orleans (Booth No. 4813)
ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT; www.adc.com) announced today that it has signed an agreement with MasterMind Technologies of Washington DC, to provide its NewNet Connect7 Signaling System No.7 (SS7) platform to MasterMind on an OEM basis. Under the agreement, ADC will provide NewNet Connect7 as the underlying SS7 platform to build and enhance Mastermind's MM7 platform.
The first in a line of high volume switching platforms, MasterMind's MM7 uses ADC's NewNet Connect7 technology to reliably access the public switched telephone networks via the global SS7 signaling. MM7, complete with NewNet Connect7, has been deployed in the Philippines since September 1999 by Smart Communications, that country's largest GSM cellular provider with a benchmark number of 200,000 subscribers.
SS7 is the globally accepted signaling standard that provides reliable access to wireline and wireless public telephone networks. NewNet Connect7 is a host-independent SS7 platform with a complete SS7 stack embedded on a controller board and powerful development tools to enable development of SS7 applications. The controller board plugs into any computer, switch, or other telecom equipment using industry standard bus architectures. The platform is powered by a real-time telecom operating system developed by ADC which enables the highest link density in the industry with up to 1,500,000 completed busy-hour calls and 700 transactions per second in live traffic.
NewNet Connect7 supports an innovative, mated-pair operation mode in which two boards co-operate to appear to the SS7 network as a single point code with twice the normal link capacity of one board. Should one of the boards fail, the remaining board is designed to support services at the node without interruption.
Using NewNet Connect7, ADC partners have delivered or are developing solutions for wireless and wireline intelligent networks as well as niche solutions such as Internet offload.
``Our customer needed a switching platform that was flexible, cost-effective and reliable. The straightforward integration of ADC's NewNet Connect7 with our MasterVox design software helped us bring the MM7 platform to market in four months,' said Curtis Jones, CEO and president of Mastermind. ``NewNet Connect7's performance and reliability features helped boost the quality perception of our product.'
``This agreement is a great opportunity for both companies to partner in producing complete, reliable switching solutions,' said Grant Wakelin, president of ADC's NewNet division. ``We have invested significant R&D resources in producing access technology that has the speed, capacity and reliability required by the demanding GSM world. We are glad to be part of MasterMind's success in the Philippines and look forward to our continued partnership and success in other markets globally.'
ADC is a leading supplier of global telecommunications software for the convergence of voice and data communications in wireless, wireline and IP networks. ADC's NewNet product line consists of SS7 platforms commercially deployed in over 45 countries, as well as, short messaging and over-the-air service provisioning solutions, SS7-IP gateways and Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) solutions.
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