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Ascend, Cisco to Unveil Voice-Over-IP Wares
For IT managers purchasing decisions are increasingly based on how
they can maximize their existing equipment into the future. And it's a
future that probably includes IP telephony. With that in mind, Ascend
Communications Inc. and Cisco both will release new voice-over-IP
products.
Ascend today will announce it is jumping into the IP telephony market
with its MultiVoice strategy. The company plans to roll out a series
of products offering telephony over IP, frame relay and ATM networks
with an enhanced IP Navigator that promises "absolute" QoS. Its MAX 6000 access concentrator, also to be unveiled at the same time, does double duty as an IP telephony gateway.
Cisco is taking a somewhat different approach. Its 2600 series routers
are targeted at a different market, but follow the same modular
philosophy.
"[The 2600] takes the same modules as the 3600 and 1600 routers," said Don Proctor, Cisco's 2600 product line manager. "What we've done is introduced the same modularity you find in the 3600 in the lower end, and that will allow you to add functionality, like voice-enabling the network, at branch offices."
With Cisco's voice/fax network modules designed for the 3600, the 2600 can integrate telephone traffic from remote sites in the head office's PBX, said Proctor. By Matthew Friedman
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