ALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998--Applied Innovation Inc. (Nasdaq: AINN) Tuesday
announced the availability of SS7 signaling on their Remote Access Server, the AI 4800, the first in a series of
DSAM (Data Services Access Mutliplexer) products designed to relieve telephone voice network
congestion.
The AI 4800 is a central office-based system that offloads Internet data traffic from the public switched
telephone network (PSTN) onto a backbone data network. It is the first product of its kind to utilize SS7
signaling in its basic design and to have its SS7 capability already fully tested.
"We are excited about the opportunity to offer this carrier-class, telco-hardened SS7 solution to the
telecommunications marketplace," commented Cory A. Grant, general manager of Applied Innovation Inc.'s
Access Products Group. "Though other companies have announced SS7 products in the planning stages, we
have it available for deployment today."
Recently, the AI 4800 passed a battery of SS7 compliance tests from the independent lab testing services of
Tekelec, a telecommunications firm specializing in STPs.
Further SS7 compliance testing of the AI 4800 has been successfully completed in two RBOC laboratories.
The lab tests used relevant of ANSI, ITU and Bellcore conformance standards.
The AI 4800 is part of a total solution set designed by the Access Products Group of Applied Innovation Inc.
to provide a full range of services to CLECs, ILECs, CAPs and ISPs to alleviate congestion and data
management problems on the PSTN.
Through utilization of the AI 4800, dynamic call routing and setup, collection of traffic and ISP specific data,
efficient trunk usage and revenue-generating services for telcos and other carriers is available.
Applied Innovation Inc. specializes in developing and supplying specialized data communications and
medication products which enable telecommunications service providers to efficiently operate and manage
networks.
AI products provide communications and interoperability for more than 100,000 network elements for many
of the world's largest and fastest growing telecommunications providers.
CONTACT: Applied Innovation Inc.
Cory A. Grant, general manager, Access Products,
919/467-1554
or
William H. Largent, CFO, 614/798-2000
or
Stackig Public Relations
Dave Wonderling, 703/761-2547
dwonderling@stackig.com |
