Adax Integrates WAN Technology and SS7 Power Into TeleHubs VASP Product Suite.BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999--Adax, Inc. announced the integration of its Wide Area Network (WAN) hardware and software solutions for OSI model layers 1-3 into TeleHub Technologies' award-winning Virtual Access Service Platform (VASP VASP Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein VASP Vienna Ab-Initio Simulation Package VASP Viação Aérea São Paulo SA (Brazilian airline) VASP Value Added Service Provider VASP Virginia Academy of School Psychologists ) product line. TeleHub uses Adax's SS7 board (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. 7-SBX) to enable broadband ATM switches to support an SS7 narrowband interface that is integrated into its optical transport and switching fabric. TeleHub also uses Adax's 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 board (ACT-PCI), T1/E1 CSU/DSU See DSU/CSU. CSU/DSU - channel service unit/digital service unit network controller daughter card (ANC-TCX), and LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. software to access Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network In the 1980s the telecommunications industry conceived that digital services would follow much the same pattern as voice services, and conceived a grandiose vision of end-to-end circuit switched services, known as the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN). (B-ISDN (Broadband-ISDN) A framework for advanced telecommunications from the ITU. Introduced in 1988 as an extension to ISDN, it was designed to provide a blueprint to integrate data, voice and video in the 21st century. ) technologies for high-speed data switching over the ATM network. "We're excited about being able to contribute to an award-winning product such as VASP," said Adax president Barry Zuckerman, Ph.D. "Our protocol and channelized controllers have really risen to the task of processing the incoming SS7 traffic." The Adax APC7-SBX boards process the SS7 data packets through the MTP2 layer and pass them to the MTP3 layer. TeleHub's custom application software, which is sitting on top of layer three, takes the signal, converts it to ATM packets, and sends it out over the ATM network. "Using Adax technology enables us to provide significant price/performance advantages in our VASP Intelligent Network product. This is a crucial competitive edge that we must have competing in this technology race," TeleHub Technologies' senior vice president of engineering, Tim Chandler said. Adax's Advanced Protocol Controllers, like its APC7-SBX, come with either one or two ports each with its own dedicated processor and software-selectable electrical interface options. The co-processors can handle the following link layer protocols: 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. , LAPB LAPB - Link Access Protocol Balanced , LAPD, and MTP2. They run on CompactPCI(TM), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PMC, SBus, ISA, EISA, VMEbus, and Micro Channel Architecture (architecture) Micro Channel Architecture - (MCA) IBM's proprietary 32-bit bus, used in high-end PS/2 personal computers. Micro Channel is designed for multiprocessing. It eliminates potential conflicts that arise when installing new peripheral devices. . The Adax ACT-PCI board is a dual-port controller with two independent channel interfaces (RS-449s) that can handle fractional to full T1 or E1 transmission speeds and access up to 24 DS0s per trunk for T1 or 32 for E1. The ACT board is 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. The DS0s can be flexibly allocated from one to 32 per logical link allowing their aggregation for increased bandwidth. The ANC-TCX network controller is a single or dual-port card with CSU/DSU, channel bank, and multiplexing capabilities. It is a daughter card that sandwiches onto an APC or ACT card (via the RS-449 interface) without taking up a slot and provides direct digital connections for two T1 or E1 trunk lines via RJ-45, BNC, or DB9 terminations. The incoming digital line goes to the CSU/DSU function and then data is passed along to either an APC card for protocol processing (clear channel -- all DS0s are treated as one data link) or an ACT card for channelizing of the DS0s. 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 CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. 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 510/548-7047. About TeleHub Technologies Located just outside Chicago in Gurnee, Ill., TeleHub Technologies Corp. (TTC) is the leading software and network technologies company providing cost-effective, intelligent networking solutions for the carrier and network markets. The company was founded in 1996 on the principle of reducing a telecom operator's dependence on large, circuit switched telecommunications infrastructures. To demonstrate a proof of concept, the company's VASP solution is currently operating over an ATM backbone network with live customers. For more information about TeleHub, visit www.telehub.com or call 800/TeleHub. |
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