Catapult Communications Participates in PacketCable March 2000 Interoperability Event.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PacketCable March 2000 Interoperability Event MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000 Catapult catapult (kăt`əpŭlt'), mechanism used to throw missiles in ancient and medieval warfare. At first, catapults were specifically designed to shoot spears or other missiles at a low trajectory (see bow and arrow). Communications (Nasdaq:CATT), a leading provider of advanced software-based test systems to the telecom industry, announced successful product testing with telecom developers at the PacketCable March 2000 Interoperability Event from March 6-10 in Denver. PacketCable is a project conducted by Cable Television Laboratories and its member companies to identify, qualify, and support Internet-based voice and video products over cable systems. This event drew top-level telecom developers together to test conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and to industry standards and product interoperability. "Interoperability events such as the PacketCable event are great proving grounds Blackarachnia is growing steadily more annoyed with the tension between her and the Maximals. for our DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) An algorithm that is widely used for data compression. Similar to Fast Fourier Transform, DCT converts data (pixels, waveforms, etc.) into sets of frequencies. The first frequencies in the set are the most meaningful; the latter, the least. test system," reported Nick Arraje, Catapult's western regional manager. "With strong support for emerging industry standards, the DCT test system provides telecom developers with the testing flexibility and power to get their products to market faster." Catapult Communications test systems provide telecom test solutions for over 160 protocols and variants in the following network areas: 3G, VoIP, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. , SS7, Intelligent Network, ATM, V5, Digital Cellular and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. . The Catapult mission is to supply equipment manufacturers and service providers with the capability to test design, conformance and interoperability of digital telecommunications equipment and services. Catapult Communications Corp. is headquartered at 160 South Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94041. Additional information is available at http://www.catapult.com. |
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