Bellcore's TELEGATE software: 100 billion served.GENEVA, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1995--Bellcore announced today that its 800-database and line-information-database software systems have processed more than 100 billion calls without a service interruption. The systems are part of Bellcore's TELEGATE(R) family of software systems. In North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , 800 is the service-access code for free-to-caller dialing, often called "free-phone" in other countries. Line information-database software contains information that makes it possible to process calling-card, collect, and billed-to-third-party calls. Bellcore's software systems, the Service Control point (SCP (1) (Service Control Point) A node in an SS7 telephone network that provides an interface to databases, which may reside within the SCP computer or in other computers. ) and the Integrated Service Control Point (ISCP ISCP Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists ISCP International Society for Concrete Pavements ISCP Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (UK) ISCP Integrated Service Control Point ISCP Interference Signal Code Power ), have processed more than 100 billion free-to-the-caller, calling-card, and third-party-billed calls without a single service interruption since toll-free 800 numbers became portable between carriers in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in May 1993. Bellcore's SCP has processed the majority of those calls, while the ISCP has processed the remainder. "Bellcore is extremely proud of this record and the reliability it's provided to Bellcore's customers," said Gary Handler, Bellcore's Group Vice President-Technology Resources. "This achievement exemplifies the leading-edge network and systems knowledge Bellcore people bring to everything they do." The SCP operates on Digital Equipment Corp.'s (DEC) 6610 and 6510 processors running DEC's VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . The ISCP runs on IBM's RS6000 hardware running IBM's AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. system. "The vital role that Digital Equipment products and services play in this real-time call processing In telecommunication, the term call processing has the following meanings:
The SCP and ISCP are the control-centers of the Intelligent Network, and make a number of intelligent-network services possible. They provide call-processing service in responding to network queries 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Initiated in 1987, Bellcore's SCP and ISCP are widely used throughout the United States today, and provide 100 percent of the 800 calls and 95 percent of the Alternate Billing Services (credit card, collect, bill to third party) calls that originate in the United States. A single SCP system can process 900 calls per second, and a single ISCP system can process 450 calls per second. On a typical business day, these systems handle 200 million calls--as many as the leading United States long-distance carriers handle in their entire networks. Bellcore provides communications software and consulting based on world-class research. Bellcore makes information technology work for telecommunications carriers, governments and business worldwide. CONTACT: Bellcore Ron Riechmann USA Pavilion, Stand 1.250 201/829-2177 or Ken Branson, 201/829-2165 or DEC Ann Robb, 33-9-295-5111 |
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