Assuming that tradition was brought over on the Mayflower, when did the migrants switch over to quarterly reporting and what were the reasons for that change.?
My sources aren't clear but they indicate it may have started after one particularly disappointing Thanksgiving when the supply of pumpkin pies was unusually thin. Governors from several colonies convened and decided a quarterly accounting of seeds, as well as status of tillable land, projected weather conditions and growth rates, would be required in order to curtail expectations. Fines were levied for excessive forward looking statements.
Tarring and feathering may have originated at this time. Again, my sources are unclear.
Okay, now for the good stuff. Take a look at what ACC's doing:
ACC Adds Fax-Over-IP to Tigris Remote Access Concentrator Family; Call-By-Call Technology Supports V.90, ISDN, GSM, Voice-Over-IP, and Now Fax-Over-IP
Business Wire - August 10, 1998 15:45
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1998--ACC today announced that it is extending its award winning Tigris family of remote access concentrators line to include fax-over-IP capabilities.
Tigris is a carrier-class multi-service remote access system, addressing carrier requirements for reliability, scalability, flexibility and manageability.
ACC's exclusive Call-by-Call(TM) technology uses programmable, high performance DSPs to load the appropriate communications software on a call-by-call basis. With Call-by-Call, Tigris functionality can also be upgraded as new capabilities are developed or as new standards are approved. Tigris delivers unequaled port concentration, system redundancy, multi-service support and protection from obsolescence, making Tigris the best value in its class for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and public carriers.
With Fax-over-IP, Tigris enables service providers to offer differentiated services as well as relieve congestion on their voice networks. With full support for the emerging ITU fax-over-IP standards, Tigris also positions providers to stay ahead of any competition offering only proprietary solutions. Fax-over-IP provides cost savings to enterprise customers. By moving fax traffic from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a corporate intranet or the Internet, corporations can save on their phone bills.
Fax-over-IP is also a "friendly application" for networks employing store-and-forward routers because fax messages are generally insensitive to network delays. Together with Voice-over-IP, Fax-over-IP is a significant step toward one ubiquitous, combined network for voice, video and data. Such intranets and networks will facilitate multimedia communications and advanced collaboration tools while at the same time lowering communications costs and network management overhead.
Tigris utilizes high-density DSP-based "soft modem" technology developed by VoCAL Technologies Ltd., an industry expert in DSP communications software, to provide up to 192 calls per interface card, and up to 1,344 calls per chassis. ACC's exclusive Call-by-all(TM) technology assigns DSP resources intelligently and "on-the-fly" to support a wide variety of services, including V.90 modem, ISDN, and GSM mobile. Call attributes, such as connect speed, line quality, and compression, are assigned on a per-call basis, eliminating the need for service providers to dedicate ports to specific service profiles. This flexible architecture makes the Tigris solution the most cost-effective on the market today for providers and public carriers offering differentiated access services.
The Tigris Integrated Access family provides both dial-in and dedicated access, as well as high-performance routing from a single platform, allowing carriers and ISPs to meet the diverse access requirements of their users while consolidating access lines, equipment and network management. Extensive support for Quality of Service and Virtual Private Networking makes Tigris well-suited for carriers and ISPs offering wholesale Internet access and remote access to the corporate LAN.
VoCAL's Fax-over-IP library, dubbed VoIPfax, is a software solution for sending real-time fax messages over public or private IP networks, including the Internet. VoIPfax is fully compliant with the ITU's emerging Recommendation T.38, the international standard for messages and data exchanged between facsimile gateways connected via an IP network. VoIPfax supports the full range of Group 3 modulations, including V.21, V.27ter, V.29, V.17 (up to 14,400 bps trellis coded modulation), and V.34fax (up to 33,600 bps), as well as both the TCP/IP and UDP/IP modes of data transmission called out in Recommendation T.38. VoIPfax also gives customers a range of performance options by allowing them to select the type and amount of redundant information for UDP/IP services.
ACC, a Newbridge affiliate, is a leading manufacturer of integrated remote access and internetworking products that provide cost-effective solutions for service providers and corporate enterprise networks. ACC leads the industry in the development of Virtual Private Network technologies and solutions designed to address emerging applications for both public and private networks. ACC's products are sold worldwide directly and through strategic channel partners.
VoCAL Technologies Ltd. is a technology house providing OEM accounts with custom software development and hardware/software integration expertise. The company has hundreds of man-years experience in the telephony and computer telephony industry and is a worldwide leader in DSP software solutions. VoCAL offers a wide range of fax, voice, video, data, and telephony functions for analog and digital communications networks. VoCAL is a key technology partner with Analog Devices and offers a full range of communications-oriented software modules which run on high performance DSP chips from Analog Devices and other DSP vendors. |
