AT&T SIGNS MAJOR NEW CONTRACT WITH STRATACOM.BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1995--AT&T today announced it has awarded a new multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to StrataCom, Inc.,of San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , for the provision of StrataCom's high speed digital switches. StrataCom's ATM cell switching Using cell switches to forward fixed-length packets in a network. Contrast with frame switching. See ATM. platforms, IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. (R) and BPX BPX Business Process Expert BPX Business Process eXcellence (Delphi Group event) BPX Burning Plasma Experiment BPX British Petroleum Exploration BPX Broadband Packet Exchange BPX Bus Parcel Express (Canada) (TM), are being used to offer 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. services to customers on AT&T's InterSpan(R) network, as well as for interoperability between AT&T's frame relay and ATM traffic. "StrataCom's expertise in building high performance switches and AT&T's expertise in managing large high speed digital networks makes this a great relationship," said Dave Hood Dave Hood created, wrote and starred in the There Goes a... videotape series, a set of children's videos which aimed to be both informative and entertaining, and which were moderately successful (total sales in the millions). , marketing vice president, AT&T InterSpan Services for the Business Communication Services division. "We've seen unprecedented growth in the demand for our frame relay services and this contract enables us to expand the capacity to meet that demand. Today's agreement further demonstrates AT&T's commitment to a long-term strategic relationship with StrataCom and ensures that together we will continue to deliver cost- effective and flexible services to InterSpan customers worldwide." AT&T is experiencing tremendous demand for its frame relay service, as evidenced by the company capturing 35 percent of the frame relay market in 1994. This has resulted in AT&T being the industry leader in providing frame relay service. In order to expand its network to meet the customer demand, an average of two switches per day are being added to the frame relay network to accommodate current and future growth. "The agreement with AT&T is further validation of StrataCom's expertise in providing the critical systems for delivering network services such as frame relay," said Alex Mendez, vice president, StrataCom. "Our experience in building very scaleable, reliable, high speed cell switching systems has helped AT&T rapidly grow their network to meet the exploding customer demands for frame relay. StrataCom has been a leader in the development of cell switching since the company's formation in 1986. It is currently an active member of the ATM Forum A membership organization founded in 1991 to promote ATM networking technology. It worked with ANSI and the ITU to set standards. Its first specification in 1992 defined the User-Network Interface (UNI). In 2004, the Forum merged with the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance. , an industry organization working to develop standards for the new technology. The platforms offer a smooth migration path from frame relay to ATM as well as fully featured, robust frame relay/ATM internetworking with sophisticated software capabilities for multiple classes of service and 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. management. StrataCom, Inc., (NASD NASD See: National Association of Securities Dealers NASD See National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). :STRM STRM Stream (US Postal service standard street suffix) STRM Starmedia Network, Inc. (stock symbol) STRM System Trouble Report Menu STRM Streamer ), based in San Jose, California, USA, develops, delivers and supports FastPacket networking systems for multiband ATM applications in private wide area networks and public carrier service offerings, such as Frame Relay and ATM. StrataCom's family of products, including FastPAD(TM), IPX(R), and BPX(TM) are used to integrate and transport a wide variety of corporate information, including voice, data, video, LAN's, image and multimedia traffic in narrowband to broadband ATM network application. AT&T provides communications services, equipment and computer systems to consumers, businesses and communications companies around the world. IPX, FastPacket,ForeSight and StrataCom are registered trademarks and BPX and FastPAD(R) are trademarks of StrataCom, Inc. CONTACT: AT&T, Basking Ridge David Thompson 908-221-4178 (office) 908-604-6413 (home) Carolyn Tommie 908-221-8541 (office) 201-366-0655 (home) |
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