Adax Announces SS7 Power for Sun's Next Generation Telecommunications Server.

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Adax, Inc., a world leader in innovative Wide Area Network (WAN) hardware and software solutions for OSI layers 1-3, announced it will be demonstrating how several of its products work with Sun's new Netra t server to get telecommunications companies to market faster and realize more marketshare.

Adax's live demos at Sun's Product Fair in New York will demonstrate how Sun's telco server maximizes the common channel signaling power telco companies need to respond more rapidly to customer needs and market conditions.

With SS7 being the major protocol used between central offices, Adax will demo its SS7 expertise with its Advanced Protocol Controller for SS7 (APC7-PCI) -- a dual-port MTP-2 board. By using graphed performance metrics, Adax will demonstrate how high bandwidth utilization and low CPU overhead are available for telco applications with its PCI controller boards running on the high-performance Sun Netra t server.

Adax's APC7-PCI demonstration will feature a test application on two ports showing the popular Trillium SS7 ISUP and MTP-3 protocol layers from their SS7 stack for telephony applications including Intelligent Network (IN), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), wireless, and interworking.

Adax's ANC-TCX, a daughter card that provides CSU/DSU, channel bank, multiplexing, and drop and insert functionalities, will route the connection from port to port so the test can run in loop back mode.

Also, in the fast-growing wireless arena, Adax will show how its Advanced Channelized Transport Board (ACT-PCI) supports up to 64 HDLC links on two T1/E1 trunks and flexibly allocates 1-32 DS0s per logical link. This demo will be an example of a wireless application and have 24 simultaneous data transfers running over a channelized T1 trunk.

With each logical channel running in a separate window, status indicators and performance metrics will be displayed graphically. Adax will also demo its software solution that supports up to 400,000 base station controllers for wireless applications. As with the SS7 demonstration, the ANC-TCX daughter card will route the connection between two T1 trunks to create a loopback test using a total of 48 DS0s.

"Sun's Netra t servers have a lot of processing power and are a good fit for our SS7 boards. And because so many customers have had good success coupling the Trillium stack and our SS7 boards, we decided to develop an adaptation layer to make integration even easier," Adax President Barry Zuckerman, Ph.D. said.

Adax will also have information available on the CompactPCI versions of their APC7 and ACT Boards and a look at their product for the next generation SS7 protocol used in the Central Office -- a High Speed Link for SS7 over ATM at T1 speed with Adax's SSCF/SSCOP software.

About Adax

Adax designs, develops, and supports WAN hardware and software solutions for high-value datacom and telecom Network Equipment Providers. Adax has demonstrated compatibility with Sun's SPARC CPUs on both the SBus and PCI bus with the Solaris Operating System. The product line is modular and highly flexible allowing any reasonable product combinations to support rapid application development and quick time to market.

Our protocol controllers, network controllers, and software modules maximize connectivity on open-systems servers and form the foundation of computer networks that connect the world. Common channel signaling software is available for both Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Signaling ATM Adaptation Layer (SAAL) in addition to standard WAN protocols including Frame Relay/PPP, ATM, and X.25.

Fielded solutions are server-based wire-line and wireless applications that include adjunct processors, Internet/intranet access multiplexers and the Advanced Intelligent Network. For more information about Adax, visit www.adax.com or call Adax's sales department at 510/548-7047.

About Trillium

Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. is The World's Source for communications software(TM). Trillium develops, licenses, and supports standards-based communications software solutions for SS7, ATM, H.323, V5, ISDN, Frame Relay, IP, X.25/X.75, fault-tolerance/high availability, and interworking technologies. Trillium is also developing solutions for wireless, mobility, Software on Silicon(TM), Java, and other emerging technologies.

Trillium has licensed its source code software to more than 250 companies for use in more than 400 projects worldwide. Trillium provides its products in the C programming language, along with documentation, training, and support as standard deliverables. Trillium was founded in 1988 and has operated for over 10 years. Additional company and product information is available on the Web at http://www.trillium.com.