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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (326)	3/24/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: Rick	Respond to of 3178

Good post Frank.. You look like a very knowledgeable guy based on your past posts... It's about time that Ascend starts partnering up...as Cisco seems to be in the lead on that - with Bay a close second.. & then Ascend...So there is lots of opp. for Ascend re: the PR value next Mon.. Pretty neat info re: Act's capacity... The first product, due in June, will be the SX-10, an entry-level gateway that offers four T-1 connections, or 96 voice channels, according to ACT officials in Camarillo, Calif. From there, ACT will roll out a family of voice gateways based on an eight-port T-1 card. The SX-40 will provide 32 T-1s or 768 ports. The SX-120 puts 96 T-1s (2,304 ports) in a 19-inch rack. At the very high end, ACT will roll out the SX-600, which can support 480 T-1 lines, or 11,520 channels, in a 7-foot telco rack. These products are due in the next 12 months, with the SX-120 slated for a fourth-quarter shipment. All of the products will cost about $350 per channel, which translates to about $33,000 for the entry-level SX-10, officials said. All of the products will also support "any service on any port at any time." In other words, the ports will accept either voice or data traffic as it comes in. Some hardware thus far has had to be pre-configured to support either voice or data.