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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications-News Only!!! (ASND)
ASND 208.87+2.9%Jan 12 3:59 PM EST
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To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (994)1/21/1998 2:06:00 PM
From: Maverick   of 1629
 
ASND works with XCOM, a CLEC on voice equipment
The SS7-ization of
the Internet

By Daniel Briere and
Christine Heckart

L eave it to the little guys to do
what's important in the market.

Little-known competitive local
exchange carrier XCOM
Technologies, Inc., which
humorously dubs itself "the data
phone company,'' has come up
with a way to bypass heavily
burdened central office switches
when data traffic is involved.
XCOM's first client, Ascend, is
probably one of many that is
going to start using the smarts of the voice network to figure out
what the heck to do with all the data traffic that is blowing
through the central office.

The XCOM platform separates data from normal voice traffic
using features and intelligence in the public switched telephone
network (PSTN), such as Signaling System 7 (SS7) and
proprietary software developed by XCOM. Acting like a traffic
cop, XCOM's box identifies and directs incoming data straight
to a terminal server, bypassing the voice switch entirely.

The result? Data is off-loaded from the congested PSTN,
enabling better connectivity and true integration of data and
voice traffic.

What will make hot technologies such as virtual private
networks hum, and bring IP telephony folk into the mainstream,
is the interface of the IP layers with the smarts of existing SS7
databases, to do the things that make sense to all of us.
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