pat,
let me throw another one out there. remember sourcecom with banc 6000 and 9000 products. well as we all know anet took em in bankrupcy. now listen to what the ceo has stated about the acquition.
"SourceCom has developed two high performance platforms, the Banc 6000 and
the Banc 9000, to address the broadband access market," stated Mr. Andre de
Fusco, Vice President of Business Development at ACT Networks. AThe Banc
6000 is a customer-premise, stand-alone high capacity IP-router already in
production and the Banc 9000 is a carrier-class high capacity rack-mount
IP-router still in the development phase. We believe that with some engineering
effort, the Banc 6000 can be converted into an enterprise-level frame relay switch
capable of supporting higher than 50,000 packet per second throughput. We
also believe that by incorporating ACT's call control/fast packet voice
technology and NetSpeak's IP/WAN telephony applications into the
NEBS-compliant Banc 9000, we will be able to offer service providers worldwide
a unique telephony gateway server, capable of supporting many hundreds of
voice connections between the traditional PSTN and the emerging fast packet
services such as Internet, frame relay and ATM."
"We believe that the large deployment of PCs in homes and offices and the
availability of high quality web phones will increasingly drive the public voice
services away from the existing PSTN to the growing fast packet networks,
added Mr. Shum. AThis will create rapid demand for a system-level telephony
gateway server solution. We also believe that to be successful, this type of
product must possess three key attributes: first, voice comprehension,
packetization and call control capabalitites; second, a fast packet telephony
application support system and an installed base of web phones; third, a highly
scaleable and carrier-class platform. ACT has the core competency in voice, and
is working with NetSpeak Corporation, a leading provider of real-time IP
telephony applications and web-phone client software, to accomplish the
second requirement. We believe that the Banc 9000 is the right platform for this
application."
looks like a good fit to me. |
