Cable and Wireless Panama Inks $2.5 Million GDC Order.MIDDLEBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1999-- --GDC Provides ATM/Frame Relay Access Equipment Valued at $3.6 Million-- General DataComm Industries, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GDC GDC Game Developers Conference GDC General Dental Council GDC Gouvernement du Canada GDC Georgia Department of Corrections GDC Global Data Center GDC Guglielmi Detachable Coil GDC Global Development Center GDC Institute for Genetic Disease Control in Animals ) today announced a $2.5 million order with Cable & Wireless Panama. GDC will provide its 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 technology to Cable & Wireless Panama to meet their customers' high demand for access to digital services, bringing the total of their GDC equipment purchased to $3.6 million. The initial shipment of GDC Universal Access Systems (UAS UAS University of Applied Sciences UAS Unavailable Seconds (Sprint) UAS University of Alaska Southeast UAS User Agent Server UAS Unassigned (Telabs) UAS Unmanned Aircraft System ), valued at $1.1 million was installed in April 1998. At that time, Cable and Wireless Panama expected their newly expanded network to meet their customers' near-term requirements for digital services. However, the network rollout was so smooth, and customer demand so great, that Cable and Wireless ordered an additional $2.5 million worth of UAS equipment. Both contracts were placed through Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony CALA CALA Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse CALA Chinese American Librarians Association CALA College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture CALA Central America / Latin America CALA Center on Animal Liberation Affairs CALA California Assisted Living Association (Caribbean and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ), who is supplying additional ATM equipment to Cable and Wireless Panama. Like the majority of established carriers worldwide, Cable and Wireless Panama relies on a large installed base of copper wire to deliver the "last mile" of service to its customers. GDC's Universal Access System will enable Cable and Wireless to provide ATM, frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. and other advanced digital services while maximizing the use of their existing copper loop infrastructure. The new ATM network, utilizing Nortel Networks and General DataComm equipment, will allow Cable and Wireless Panama to consolidate existing services including frame relay, SNA/SDLC and X.25, as well as voice, video and high speed Internet traffic over 155 Mbps backbone trunks. Cable and Wireless Panama is moving rapidly to offer frame relay and ATM services to take advantage of the improved service quality and reduced operational costs. "The Universal Access System's modular design allows cards supporting IDSL See DSL. , HDSL See DSL. HDSL - High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line , V.34 and data over voice traffic (DATX) to interface to the same shelf," explained James O'Meara, GDC vice president and general manager of the Network Access Division "If Cable and Wireless Panama had chosen multiple access vendors, up to four different shelves would have been required to handle the traffic individually," he continued. Not only do customers benefit by a 4-to-1 savings on rack space, but also by a 4-to-1 reduction of UNIX-based network controllers since each traffic type would have required a separate controller if purchased from different vendors. Built-in features enhance the controller's reliability by helping to isolate sectional faults and enable fast service restoral. The management of the GDC access system has been further consolidated into an integral part of the Nortel Networks management system. "GDC has worked hard to meet the compressed timeframe required for this project. The average turn around time from order placement to shipment was 30 days," stated Mr. Ralph Castellanos, GDC vice president of Latin America Operations GDC's recently introduced Universal Access System has proven very popular with many Latin American telephone companies including CANTV CANTV Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela of Venezuela, EMTELCO of Colombia and Telemig of Brazil. The UAS provides carriers and companies with the flexibility to provide a wide range of data speeds, traffic configurations and service offerings, which includes internet access for their customers - all over their existing copper network. About Cable & Wireless Panama Cable & Wireless Panama (www.cwpanama.com.pa), part of the global Cable & Wireless Group, is the leading provider of integrated, full service telecommunications products in the Republic of Panama. About General DataComm GDC Network Access Division is a leader in the design, development and manufacture of high-speed network access equipment worldwide for Network Service Providers, Frame Relay Service Providers, commercial end-users and governments. The Network Access Division manufactures, services and markets a broad range of advanced NEBS-compliant, carrier-class network access products providing Universal Access System DSL solutions; integrated analog, DDS (1) (Digital Data Storage) See DAT. (2) (Data Dictionary System) See QuickBuild and OpenDDS. (3) (Dataphone Digital S and T1/E1/T3 access products; and Frame Relay network monitoring for private and public networks. GDC is headquartered in Middlebury, CT, USA, and has an extensive network of subsidiaries and partners located throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Rim. For more information visit GDC's premier web site at http://www.gdc.com. All GDC products mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of General DataComm, Inc. |
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