I don't understand how they can state: "Franklin Telecom Helps Set Standard" You need to go back further than Nov of 98, but this was an impressive press-release nonetheless.
"Specifically, the Internet Protocol Devic Control (IPDC) specification, which was developed by Level 3 and a technical advisory council that includes most of the major telecom switch and SS7 gateway vendors, and the Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP), developed by Bellcore and Cisco, will be combined into a single standard called the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). MGCP will let service providers control and manage networking equipment at the edges of their networks, helping providers leverage the intelligence of the public switched telephone network for handling data traffic. The type of equipment that will eventually incorporate MGCP includes voice over IP gateways, remote access concentrators, modem banks, and cable modems.
The consolidation of the two competing protocols into one should help speed the adoption of call handling technology into equipment and provider networks. "Companies were faced with picking one protocol or implementing both," said Christian Huitema, chief scientist at Bellcore's Internet architecture laboratory. Now they only have to support one. Bellcore and Level 3 have also submitted MGCP to the Internet Engineering Task Force and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
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Franklin Telecom Helps Set Standard For Voice on the Internet
Tempest® System incorporates MGCP as well as H.323
Westlake Village, CA. February 22, 1999 -- Franklin Telecom (OTC: FTEL) today introduced Version 3.0 of its award winning Tempest Data Voice Gateway. The Tempest V3 solidifies capabilities for interoperability, a growing issue as VoIP comes of age. The Tempest Systems are structured to support the emerging MGCP protocol along with the widely accepted H.323.
Although H.323 is the most visible standard for VoIP at the moment, according to Peter Buswell, Franklin's President and COO, "There is strong reason to suspect that today's reliance on H.323 will be temporary. This is a serious effort underway, spear-headed by Bellcore, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-an agency of the United Nations) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to advance a more technically competent standard. We believe that the infrastructure of the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) developed by Bellcore Labs will be a crucial step in the industry-wide search for successful interoperability. To that end, Franklin, while providing H.323, is also setting MGCP as the protocol of choice for all FTEL products. We expect that many of our competitors, such as Cisco, will move to support this standard within the next six to twelve months."
"Efficient interoperability is critical to the success of any gateway," Buswell went on to explain. "VoIP customers rightfully expect the gateways they adopt to allow full and easy access to the wealth of IP products out there, like the widely used Microsoft NetMeeting. While we view H.323 as something of a "stop-gap" measure until the industry successfully transitions to a more sophisticated solution, the Tempest also supports H.323. Our bottom line is to make sure we provide what our customers need-today and tomorrow. MGCP has just begun to gather momentum-and we're moving right along with it!"
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