Nice find, Peter. This news release out today as well:
(BSNS WIRE) Interphase Expands Strategic Initiatives of Telecom Products Group;
Professional Services Developed as a Result of Demand
Business/Technology Editors
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2001--Interphase Corporation
(Nasdaq:INPH), an international supplier of next generation networking
technologies, today announced the expansion of its telecommunications
solutions offering with the addition of the Professional Services
Organization as part of its Telecom Products Group.
The Professional Services Organization is responsible for
customizing enhanced software and features, and integrating Interphase
software building blocks, as well as third party applications, to
customer specific designs.
Interphase has entered the service market just as
telecommunications equipment providers have accelerated their use of
commercial off the shelf (COTS) products to meet shorter design cycles
and rapid deployment of advanced features. The markets for 2.5 and 3G
wireless applications, Internet access devices and Advanced
Intelligent Networking have continued to show significant potential
and Interphase product solutions have proven their ability to reduce
time-to-market and demonstrate flexibility for customers who are
moving to open systems platforms.
"We targeted the rapidly expanding telecommunication controller
market during a time that has been very advantageous for us," said
Interphase President Greg Kalush. "We've been able to capitalize on
bringing robustly featured products to market, and we are continuing
to expand our capabilities and offerings to include professional
integration services. The market response in the product segment has
been very strong, but as we began to work more closely on the specific
needs of our customers during the "design-in" stage, it was clear that
a professional services offering would substantially enhance their
time-to-market capability."
The Professional Services team will provide a number of options to
Interphase customers who are looking for a completely integrated
solution for their system platform challenges. The team will customize
lower layer protocols and integrate robust software features for use
by customers to shorten their telecom platform development cycle. The
professional services team may also integrate third party vendor
components such as protocol stacks, high performance feature modules
and management applications, giving customers a critical advantage in
meeting their requirements. Customer training assistance, consulting
services and experienced and knowledgeable field support round out the
full service vision of the Telecom Products Group.
"We have consistently demonstrated our ability to provide superior
I/O products to the telecom market with our high-performance ATM cards
and controllers," said the Telecom Products Group Vice President and
General Manager Felix Diaz. "The creation of the Professional Services
team allows us to focus on our core competencies and offer integrated
solutions that this market demands. By adding integration services to
the mix, we are now able to be a true turn-key solutions provider that
can help customers manage resources more effectively with a higher
level of integration, delivering products to the market faster, while
being more cost effective."
About Interphase Corporation
Interphase Corporation designs and delivers high performance
connectivity adapters for computer and telecommunication networks. The
company's products connect computer and telecommunication servers to
SANs, wide area networks and local area networks using Fibre Channel,
Asynchronous Transfer Mode, SS7, Frame Relay and ISDN technologies.
Headquartered in Dallas, with offices in Austin, Paris, London, and
Bangkok, Interphase 1999 revenues were $73.5 million. Clients include
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Motorola Inc.,
Fujitsu Ltd., Nortel Networks Ltd., Lucent Technologies, Inc.,
Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Raytheon Company. Additional information
about Interphase and its products is available through the company's
web site at www.interphase.com.
The Interphase logo is a registered trademark of Interphase
Corporation. All other trade and service marks are property of their
respective companies
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CONTACT: Interphase Corporation, Dallas
Trade Contact:
Margaret E. Lietzke, 214/654-5133 or 214/215-5687
mlietzke@iphase.com
or
Investor Contact:
Steve Kovac, 214/654-5000
IR@iphase.com
KEYWORD: TEXAS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS HARDWARE NETWORKING
SOFTWARE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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