Amdahl Announces New Wireless Applications for the Amdahl INSPIRE Platform.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 1998-- Wireless Versions of LNP (Local Number Portability) The capability of keeping the same local telephone number when switching carriers. See NP and WLNP. , CNAM (Calling NAMe) An IN (Intelligent Network) service that displays the caller's name on the calling party's digital readout. This is similar to caller ID except that the calling party's name is displayed along with the calling number or instead of the calling number. See caller ID. and N-CNAM Applications Introduced The Intelligent Network Systems Group of Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and , a Fujitsu company, today announced the availability of wireless versions of three of its current suite of applications for the Amdahl INSPIRE(TM) platform. The three new implementations are Wireless Number Portability See NP. (WNP WNP Wireless Number Portability (FCC) WNP White Nationalist Party WNP Washington Nuclear Power WNP Will Not Proceed ), Wireless Calling Name Delivery Service (W-CNAM), and a wireless version of the newly-announced Nationwide Calling Name Delivery Service (WN-CNAM). Amdahl INSPIRE is a robust, open, highly scaleable platform built from network-deployed, proven components. It is based upon 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 (R) servers, Sun's Solaris(TM) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. , an object DBMS See object database. , Signalware(TM) technology from DGM&S Telecom, and Amdahl-developed applications. "The announcement of these wireless applications reaffirms Amdahl's commitment to helping carriers meet regulatory mandates, generate revenue, and reduce costs," said Rick Carter, vice president and general manager, Intelligent Network Systems Group, Amdahl Corporation. "These applications expand the number of carriers who can benefit from the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , the scaleability, and the economies of the Amdahl INSPIRE offering. Especially exciting is the wireless version of our Nationwide CNAM service, which can help a wireless carrier differentiate its service and dramatically improve service profitability." This is yet another example of the Amdahl tradition of bringing robust enterprise-class technology solutions and services to its customers. Amdahl continues to raise the bar by providing products and services that help customers gain a competitive advantage in their industries. As an end-to-end integrator, Amdahl provides a single point of contact for support and service for all components of the Amdahl INSPIRE solution. Amdahl also provides a suite of services ranging from business planning, to implementation planning, to operations support integration, to service deployment and operations. Fujitsu Limited, Amdahl's parent company, is a recognized leader in the telecommunications industry. About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. (R), Windows NT(R), and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. Amdahl is a registered trademark and Amdahl INSPIRE is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Signalware is a trademark of DGM&S Telecom. Fujitsu is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited. MVS is a registered trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through X/Open Company, Limited. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.
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