Broadband Gateways and CopperCom Announce Voice Over DSL Interoperability.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2001 World's First Intelligent Premises Gateway Successfully Completes Interoperability Testing for Broadband Voice Services Platform Broadband Gateways, Inc., developer of EVOLO(TM), the world's first Intelligent Premises Gateway (IPG IPG Implantable pulse generator, see there ) for the residential and small business markets, today announced it has achieved complete interoperability status with CopperCom. The EVOLO system successfully completed interoperability testing with the CopperCom Gateway, ensuring seamless access of voice, data, and multimedia services, and distributing them via wireless and wireline, throughout the premises. This successful test follows Broadband Gateways' announcement last year highlighting its partnership with CopperCom's The Many Voices of 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 (TM) partner program -- which gives vendors the ability to ensure interoperability with CopperCom equipment. The partnership serves as another step towards Broadband Gateways' objective of enabling service providers to profitably meet the growing demands for seamlessly integrated voice and high-speed data service. "Interoperability between the EVOLO system and the CopperCom Gateway further promotes VoDSL's momentum as a leading broadband transport for carriers," said Jennifer Stagnaro, chief marketing officer at CopperCom. "Providing the highest levels of performance and expanding the service offerings providers have for consumers has always been core to CopperCom's charter. Working together, we're ensuring carriers receive the advanced voice solutions they seek as they continue to massively deploy VoDSL." "CopperCom adheres to some of the industry's most comprehensive interoperability testing metrics between the Gateway and CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment -- since compatability is critical to all carriers. Completing interoperability testing with CopperCom was essential and further demonstrates our belief in the significance of this fundamental quality requirement," explained Rashid Skaf, vice president of marketing and business development at Broadband Gateways, Inc. "Together, we are perfectly poised to deliver the fully interoperable VoDSL solutions service providers require." The EVOLO system gives service providers an intelligent, flexible platform for deployment of revenue generating services on a mass scale. Recently, Broadband Gateways announced at the DSLcon Europe conference its latest addition to the EVOLO product line, the EVOLO 2.4 GHz Wireless Extension Module and companion Wireless Handsets. Unlike today's 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. ), which provides only high-speed Internet See broadband. access and basic voice services, Broadband Gateways' IPG combines an IAD, a residential gateway, a modem, firewall, advanced PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). features, and enhanced data routing and networking capabilities in a single, modular platform. About CopperCom CopperCom, the company that is Creating Voice Services over Broadband(TM), designs and markets a full suite of telecommunications products for the access network-delivering high-speed data and up to 24 voice lines simultaneously over a single, copper wire. CopperCom has transformed today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. model for service providers by uniquely combining a low-cost switching platform with an industry-leading transport architecture-enabling a natural migration to a full packet telephone network while preserving critical investments. CopperCom is the only company that offers a full end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that combines broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. with a low-cost softswitch and the rich feature creation environment for local telephony-giving service providers a new way to differentiate and bundle innovative services for subscribers in the highly profitable residential and small business markets. Founded in 1997, CopperCom is a privately held, Silicon Valley-based company funded by leading venture partners, including Advent International Advent International - a long-established and leading global private equity investor Background Advent was founded in 1984 by Peter Brooke and Clint Harris to focus on international private equity investing. , Charlie Bass, Hambrecht and Quist, Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. ,
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Ventures). For additional information, CopperCom can be reached at
408/987-8500, or on the Internet at www.coppercom.com.
Broadband Gateways Inc. designs intelligent integrated access devices in the broadband voice and data market. The company's innovative Intelligent Premises Gateway (IPG) for residential and small business applications is the world's first intelligent platform, driving the convergence of voice and data, wireless and wireline. This new system takes broadband beyond high-speed Internet access, distributing wireless voice, data, and multimedia services within the premises more simply and cost-effectively, thereby opening up the mass market for service providers. Broadband Gateways is privately funded and headquartered in Plano, Texas. www.bbgateways.com. Broadband Gateways(TM) and EVOLO(TM) are trademarks of Broadband Gateways, Inc. CopperCom, CopperCom Gateway and Creating Voice Services over Broadband are trademarks of CopperCom, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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