ADC Announces OEM Deal with MasterMind Technologies for NewNet Connect7 Platform.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers CeBIT 2000 Hall, 17, Stand C16/1 CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless 2000 Booth No. 4813 MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 Mastermind selects NewNet Connect7(TM), host-independent SS7 platform, to be key component of its switching and interactive voice response products ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. will be exhibiting at CeBIT 2000 in Hannover (Hall 17, Stand No. C16/1) and at CTIA Wireless 2000 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded (Booth No. 4813) ADC (Nasdaq: ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ; www.adc.com) announced today that it has signed an agreement with MasterMind Technologies of Washington DC, to provide its NewNet Connect7 Signaling System No.7 (SS7) platform to MasterMind on an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and basis. Under the agreement, ADC will provide NewNet Connect7 as the underlying SS7 platform to build and enhance Mastermind's MM7 platform. The first in a line of high volume switching platforms, MasterMind's MM7 uses ADC's NewNet Connect7 technology to reliably access the public switched telephone networks via the global SS7 signaling. MM7, complete with NewNet Connect7, has been deployed in the Philippines since September 1999 by Smart Communications Smart Communications, Inc. commonly known as "SMART", is the wholly-owned mobile phone subsidiary of PLDT. With over 25 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-February 2007, equivalent to approximately 58 percent market share. , that country's largest GSM cellular provider with a benchmark number of 200,000 subscribers. SS7 is the globally accepted signaling standard that provides reliable access to wireline and wireless public telephone networks. NewNet Connect7 is a host-independent SS7 platform with a complete SS7 stack embedded on a controller board and powerful development tools to enable development of SS7 applications. The controller board plugs into any computer, switch, or other telecom equipment using industry standard bus architectures. The platform is powered by a real-time telecom operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. developed by ADC which enables the highest link density in the industry with up to 1,500,000 completed busy-hour calls and 700 transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed in live traffic. NewNet Connect7 supports an innovative, mated-pair operation mode in which two boards co-operate to appear to the SS7 network as a single point code with twice the normal link capacity of one board. Should one of the boards fail, the remaining board is designed to support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services at the node without interruption. Using NewNet Connect7, ADC partners have delivered or are developing solutions for wireless and wireline intelligent networks as well as niche solutions such as Internet offload. "Our customer needed a switching platform that was flexible, cost-effective and reliable. The straightforward integration of ADC's NewNet Connect7 with our MasterVox design software helped us bring the MM7 platform to market in four months," said Curtis Jones, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Mastermind. "NewNet Connect7's performance and reliability features helped boost the quality perception of our product." "This agreement is a great opportunity for both companies to partner in producing complete, reliable switching solutions," said Grant Wakelin, president of ADC's NewNet division. "We have invested significant R&D resources in producing access technology that has the speed, capacity and reliability required by the demanding GSM world. We are glad to be part of MasterMind's success in the Philippines and look forward to our continued partnership and success in other markets globally." ADC is a leading supplier of global telecommunications software for the convergence of voice and data communications in wireless, wireline and IP networks. ADC's NewNet product line consists of SS7 platforms commercially deployed in over 45 countries, as well as, short messaging and over-the-air service provisioning solutions, SS7-IP gateways and Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994 (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279). In its own words, the purpose of CALEA is: CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 CALEA Communication Assistance to Low Enforcement Act ) solutions. About MasterMind Technologies MasterMind Technologies, developers of award-winning computer telephony, Internet, switching and interactive voice response products and services, has rapidly become a dominant force in open telecommunications. Products support the deployment of high-density applications handling thousands of users. Solutions can be quickly prototyped and scaled into production to address today's rapidly changing business environment. More information abut To reach; to touch. To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate on; end at; border on; reach or touch with an end. The term abutting implies a closer proximity than the term adjacent. MasterMind, can be found at http://www.mastermindtechnologies.com. About ADC ADC Telecommunications, Inc. is a leading global supplier of network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks that deliver data, video and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks. ADC's broadband, multiservice network solutions enable local access, high-speed transmission and software management of communications services from service providers to consumers and businesses over fiber-optic, copper, coaxial and wireless media. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ADC has approximately 14,400 employees around the world and annual sales of $2.1 billion. ADC's stock is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, visit our Web site at www.adc.com. NewNet and Connect7 are registered trademarks of ADC Telecommunications. |
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