Adax Announces Channelized Transport on CompactPCI for Telco and Data Communications.

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 12, 1999--Adax, Inc. announced the availability of its Advanced Channelized Transport Board on CompactPCI (cPCI). Running on the fast 133 MBps CompactPCI bus architecture, this dual-port controller board joins the APC and APC7 protocol controllers in the growing Adax family of Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions available on cPCI. It has two independent channel interfaces that can handle fractional to full T1 or E1 transmission speeds and can access up to 24 DS0s per trunk for T1 and 32 for E1. The ACT board is also configurable and allows flexible allocation of the DS0s by creating individual HDLC links - up to 48 for T1 and 64 for E1 - for use by multimedia protocols, telephony, or data applications. DS0s can be flexibly allocated from one to 32 per logical link.

"Industry needs pointed us to a product that could handle Frame Relay, voice, wireless, and data applications all on the same platform," said Adax Marketing Communications Specialist, John Panaro. "Our ACT-cPCI Boards can mix voice and ATM along with APC7 (SS7) cards in the same box and also have the more rugged, serviceable, and hot-swappable CompactPCI bus architecture for greater reliability."

The cPCI bus provides a rugged and reliable hardware environment for telco, industrial, and other high reliability applications. Adax's cPCI boards work on the Intel, SUN, IBM RS/6000 or HP server; have front and rear panel connections for flexibility; and the H.110 telco bus standard, which simplifies back-panel wiring (provides eight H.110 telco bus channels). The ACT board was created for wireless network control requiring a heavily multiplexed data communication environment. Its scalability allows the installation of up to 16 boards on a single PCI backplane making possible 1,024 separate 64 Kbps connections.

"Our ACT-cPCI board allows telco and data communications customers to freely intermix data and voice applications on the same platform," said Adax President Barry Zuckerman, Ph.D. "Combining the H.110 bus with a channelized card has resulted in a great breakthrough in technology. It solves the most important problems in the telco environment--wiring hassles and complexity of high density channelized communications systems."

The ACT-cPCI board contains the Adax Avalanche Chip--a PCI bus interface chip specially designed to give the main CPU quick access to memory on the board. It takes full advantage of the 133 Mbps cPCI bus data transfer rate and provides Plug and Play (automatic address space assignment) and all the other benefits of the PCI architecture.

About Adax

Founded in 1982, Adax has become a leader in innovative WAN hardware and software solutions for OSI model layers 1-3 and the network access layer by using simplicity and modularity in a way that minimizes CPU utilization. Software/hardware solutions include SS7, X.25, Frame Relay, HDLC, board-based CSU/DSUs (ANC line), ATM, Advanced Protocol Controllers (APC line) for T1/E1 and T3/E3, and channelized T1/E1 boards. Adax designs, develops, and supports software and hardware to manage WAN protocols and connectivity for high-value data and telecommunications customers using server-based and wireless applications, such as adjunct processing, Internet/intranet access, intelligent switching, and digital media. For more information about Adax, visit www.adax.com or call Adax's sales department at [phone].