Adax Announces HDC-PCI Combo Board; New solution provides PCI with Ethernet and T1/E1 ports.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003 Adax, Inc., the industry leader in high-performance communications and signaling infrastructure, today announced the release of a new HDC-PCI Combo Board, which is a major update to the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). version of its HDC signaling protocol controller. Offering a powerful high-density solution for wireless, wireline and conversing PSTN/IP network platforms, customers can now cost-effectively develop gateways or interfaces to IP networks without the need for racks and cPCI form factors. Using a PCI-based system, and incorporating Adax's HDC-PCI Combo board, customers can now bring solutions to market much more quickly, while realizing cost savings never before possible. The new HDC-PCI Combo provides T1/E1 and Ethernet connections directly on the board, eliminating the need for an additional daughter card. In response to market demand for more integrated systems, Adax has met this need by adding Ethernet capabilities to a single card. This enables developers to use the Adax high-performance HDC cards for gateway-type solutions on PCI platforms, such as Linux-based PCs or Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill workstations. This is in addition to cPCI and PMC formats currently available for the HDC card, giving developers even more options in the creation of next-generation networks. The Adax HIC-PCI Combo card is a high performance, high density, multiple protocol, 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. controller that supports both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN (SIGnaling TRANsport) An IP telephony protocol from the IETF that is used to transfer SS7 signals over IP networks. The telco switch sends SS7 signals to a signaling gateway (SG) that converts them into SIGTRAN packets, which travel over IP to the next signaling gateway or protocols for SS7 over IP. It is available in two versions; either with 4 TI/E1 interfaces, or 2 T1/E1s and 2 Ethernet ports. This makes it the ideal card for signaling gateways, being able to interface with traditional/legacy/PSTN networks and IP Networks, with narrowband SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols, respectively. Other application areas include Media Gateway Controllers; SGSN SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node and GGSNs, MSC and BSS See 802.11. BSS - Block Started by Symbol notes in GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. networks,; and SMS off-loads, to name but a few. The HDC is dynamically configurable, and is capable of delivering a combination of up to 128 channels of SS7 MTP-2 64Kbps and 2Mbps HSL signaling, SCTP (1) (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) An alternative to TCP that supports multiple transmission paths. Designed to facilitate SS7 signaling over TCP/IP, SCTP supports multiple IP addresses from the same host (multihomed host) and treats the data , LAPB/D/F, LAPV5, Frame Relay or HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) A data link protocol from ISO for point-to-point communications over serial links. Derived from IBM's SDLC protocol, HDLC has been the basis for numerous protocols including X.25, ISDN, T1, SS7, GSM, CDPD, PPP and others. . Multiple HDC cards can be installed together to provide a totally scalable, flexible and cost-effective solution. About Adax, Inc. For more than twenty years, Adax has been the industry leader in high performance wide area communications and signaling infrastructure. From its Berkeley, California headquarters, Adax provides foundations for signaling networks in the form of protocol and network controller products and associated software. Adax's product set is based on open system standards, modular design and a common Application Program Interface (API). Using Adax products, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and integrators can quickly and efficiently build communications solutions for network convergence. With offices in the United States and the U.K, Adax products are the backbone of thousands of essential communications systems worldwide. Adax provides signaling solutions for the world's leading communications companies, including Lucent, Nrotel, Ericsson, Alcatel, Hughes Software Systems Hughes Software Systems Limited (HSS), previously known as Flextronics Software Systems Limited (FSS) now known as Aricent was incorporated in India on December 30, 1991 with Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation (HUGHES), USA as its principal and Siemens. Typical application areas include Signaling, Voice over IP (VoIP), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Media Gateways; Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and Serving GPRS Support Notes (SGSN) nodes for GPRS and 3G; Intelligent Networks, Base Station Control; Billing Mediation. |
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