AI Remote Access Server Offers Tested, SS7-Compliant Availability.RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998--Applied Innovation Inc. (Nasdaq: AINN AINN Artificial Intelligence Neural Network ) Tuesday announced the availability of SS7 signaling on their Remote Access Server, the AI 4800, the first in a series of DSAM DSAM Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota DSAM Diploma in Small Animal Medicine DSAM Deputy Sheriff's Association of Michigan (Lansing, MI) DSAM Defense Supply Agency Manual (Data Services Access Mutliplexer) products designed to relieve telephone voice network congestion. The AI 4800 is a central office-based system that offloads Internet data traffic from the public switched telephone network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) onto a backbone data network. It is the first product of its kind to utilize SS7 signaling in its basic design and to have its SS7 capability already fully tested. "We are excited about the opportunity to offer this carrier-class, telco-hardened SS7 solution to the telecommunications marketplace," commented Cory A. Grant, general manager of Applied Innovation Inc.'s Access Products Group. "Though other companies have announced SS7 products in the planning stages, we have it available for deployment today." Recently, the AI 4800 passed a battery of SS7 compliance tests from the independent lab testing services of Tekelec, a telecommunications firm specializing in STPs. Further SS7 compliance testing of the AI 4800 has been successfully completed in two RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company) The Bell telephone companies that were spun off of AT&T by court order in 1984 (the Divestiture). Also known as the "Baby Bells," the initial seven RBOCs were Nynex, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, US West, laboratories. The lab tests used relevant of ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. , ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. and Bellcore conformance standards. The AI 4800 is part of a total solution set designed by the Access Products Group of Applied Innovation Inc. to provide a full range of services to CLECs, ILECs, CAPs and ISPs to alleviate congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and data management problems on the PSTN. Through utilization of the AI 4800, dynamic call routing and setup, collection of traffic and ISP specific data, efficient trunk usage and revenue-generating services for telcos and other carriers is available. Applied Innovation Inc. specializes in developing and supplying specialized data communications and medication products which enable telecommunications service providers to efficiently operate and manage networks. AI products provide communications and interoperability for more than 100,000 network elements for many of the world's largest and fastest growing telecommunications providers. CONTACT: Applied Innovation Inc. Cory A. Grant, general manager, Access Products, 919/467-1554 or William H. Largent, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , 614/798-2000 or Stackig Public Relations Dave Wonderling, 703/761-2547 dwonderling@stackig.com |
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