ACT Networks Introduces The Frame Relay Industry's First CO-VoiceFRAD.CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1996--ACT Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:ANET) today announced the introduction of its FX-1000 product, the first of its new ACT FrameXchange product family. This product family is targeted at the carrier market and leverages ACT's leadership in voice over Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. to provide central-office-based solutions to Frame Relay service providers. Martin Shum, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "As the voice over Frame Relay market continues to expand, we believe there could be significant opportunities for our technology in the carrier market. Currently available voice over Frame Relay products are designed to be installed at customer premises. "The FX-1000 is the first product specifically designed for central-office-based applications. We refer to it conceptually as a central office voice frad (CO-VoiceFRAD). We believe that carriers can offer Native Voice over Frame Relay utilizing their existing Frame Relay fast packet infrastructure and significantly lower the cost of transporting voice when compared to the existing circuit switched network." The FrameXchange product family is engineered to meet the requirements for central office installation and can be remotely managed by carriers' Operations Support System. Salient features include a 48 volt volt [for Alessandro Volta], abbr. V, unit of electric potential and electromotive force. It is defined as the difference of electric potential existing across the ends of a conductor carrying a constant current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated is 1 watt. DC redundant power supply with a mid-plane architecture, hot swappable See hot swap. front plug-in modules, a 19" rack mount design, power and temperature sensors, and electronic serial numbers tracking system. The FX-1000 is now available for evaluation by carriers. It is designed to be installed at the Frame Relay service providers' Point of Presence ("POP") and can convert 24 channelized Refers to an architecture that transmits data in channels. It often refers to the 64 Kbps channels in T1 lines, which were originally developed to handle digitized voice streams (TDM). See TDM. T-1 voice circuits into a Frame Relay composite using a Committed Information Rate (communications) Committed Information Rate - (CIR) The guaranteed average bandwidth of a virtual circuit in a frame relay network. The CIR plus the Excess Information Rate (EIR, burst rate) is equal to or less than the speed of the access port into the network. of 256 Kbps or less. Shum continued, "Voice over Frame Relay applications have gained widespread acceptance in enterprise networks. While carriers have only recently shown interest in offering voice over Frame Relay services, we believe that, with the FX-1000, Frame Relay service providers will be able to offer added voice services at a fraction of the cost of existing public switched telephone networks. These services can include virtual private networks, directory assistance and help desk applications." "The FX-1000 CO-VoiceFRAD offers a cost effective alternative to deploying expensive devices that support silence suppression Encoding the start and stop times of silence (lack of voice) in order to eliminate wasted bandwidth when sending voice over a packet-switched system. and compression of voice traffic. In conjunction with frame relay, it allows carriers to use network bandwidth more efficiently," said Liza Henderson, broadband consultant at TeleChoice, Inc., a telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a based in Verona, N.J. This press release may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. regarding future events, including, without limitation, statements regarding: the growth and opportunities in the market for the company's products; cost savings associated with the use of the company's products; and the commercialization of products in the FrameXchange product family. These statements are only predictions and actual events or results may differ materially as a result of a variety of factors including, without limitation, those discussed in the company's last Reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and the risks associated with: the possibility that the market for Frame Relay products will not continue to develop or that the company's products and capabilities will not address emerging market needs; the effect of changing technologies and new product developments; and problems associated with the development, marketing and introduction of new products. ACT Networks, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets Frame Relay wide-area network access products which support a broad range of voice, data and integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. applications. The company's product line is focused on three strategic markets: enterprise networks (ACTnet and NetPerformer), satellite networks (SkyFrame) and the carrier market (FrameXchange). End users and service providers worldwide use the company's products to build cost-effective, bandwidth efficient, easy-to-manage wide area networks (WANs). The company's products incorporate advanced voice and data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. algorithms, switching capabilities and proprietary integration technologies. ACT's products are designed to operate with either wireless or terrestrial Dealing with the earth. See terrestrial link. telecommunications media. CONTACT: ACT Networks, Inc. Martin Shum, 805/388-2474 or Morgen-Walke Associates Chris Danne/Alex Williamson/Doug Sherk, 415/296-7383 Emily Dupree, 212/850-5698 Elissa Grabowski, 212/850-5600 |
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