Black Hills FiberCom and TollBridge Technologies Announce Field Trial to Test Voice-Over-Cable Solution.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1999-- Black Hills FiberCom and TollBridge Technologies, Inc., announced today that they begin field trials this week to test TollBridge's IP-based, multiline, voice-over-broadband solutions. TollBridge's broadband-agnostic equipment is the only gateway solution that provides Black Hills FiberCom a means to deliver toll-quality T1 and 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. voice over its current fiber and coaxial cable backbone. Black Hills FiberCom serves communities in Midwest regions and plans to rollout voice-over-cable services in early 2000. "TollBridge designed its products to integrate quickly into any broadband architecture," said Jim Grady, vice president of marketing at TollBridge Technologies. "Because the TollBridge equipment is based on IP, it is uniquely qualified to provide voice-over-cable solutions to Black Hills FiberCom and other multiple service operators and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers." As a "total communications" provider, Black Hills FiberCom offers its business and residential customers video, voice, and high-speed cable data services. With TollBridge's TB200 Local Exchange Gateway and TB50 integrated access device An IAD is a customer premises device that provides access to wide area networks and the Internet. Specifically, it aggregates multiple channels of information including voice and data across a single shared access link to a carrier or service provider PoP (Point of Presence). (IAD (Integrated Access Device) A device that multiplexes a variety of communications technologies in the customer's premises onto a single telephone line for transmission to the carrier. It also demultiplexes the incoming streams into their respective channels. ), Black Hills FiberCom can utilize cable to deliver toll-quality, full-featured voice services that support the same voice coding standards and rates supported by today's Class 5 digital telephony Digital telephony is a technology used in the provision of digital telephone services and systems. Since the 1960s it has almost entirely replaced the old telephone system that used analog telephony. switches. Additionally, the TollBridge solution supports the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol ), allowing it to interoperate with next-generation IP-based "soft switches." Thus, Black Hills FiberCom can offer the full range of Class 5 services today and migrate customers to a host of new IP-based services over time. "We want to provide the best possible service to Midwest cities while remaining a cost-effective operation," said Mike Timmer, director of operations at Black Hills FiberCom. "We chose to evaluate the viability of implementing voice-over-cable using TollBridge's equipment because it can flexibly operate over any broadband transport method, is scalable up to T1 capacity, and has the technologically advanced IP-based architecture." About TollBridge Technologies Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading developer of IP-based multiline voice solutions targeted at Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). The company's solutions change the economics of delivering voice services to small business customers by allowing voice CLECs that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. technologies, such as DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , to bypass the incumbent local exchange carrier ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) also known as the "Baby Bells". (ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. ) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. For more information about TollBridge Technologies, visit the company's website at http://www.tollbridgetech.com or contact Kendyl Kellogg at 408/585-2145. About Black Hills FiberCom Founded in September 1998 as a subsidiary of Black Hills Corporation, Black Hills FiberCom delivers high-quality, total communications services in the Midwest, including Rapid City and the Northern Black Hills. The company offers true video, voice, and high-speed data services to business and consumer customers. For more information about Black Hills FiberCom, visit the company's website at http://www.blackhillsfiber.com. TollBridge and TollVoice are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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