Cedar Point to Demonstrate Protection Switching, New Features at CableLabs Summer Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DERRY. N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Cedar Point Cedar Point is a 364 acre (1.5 km²) amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It is one of the world's largest amusement parks (by ride count) with 69 rides and currently holds the world record for most roller coasters with 17, one Communications, Inc., a leader in packet-based voice switching development for the cable industry, announced today that it is participating in the Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs(R)) Summer Conference August 10-12 in Keystone key·stone n. 1. Architecture The central wedge-shaped stone of an arch that locks its parts together. Also called headstone. 2. The central supporting element of a whole. , CO. Cedar Point will demonstrate the full carrier-class functionality of its SAFARI C3(TM) Media Switching System, including Protection Switching that ensures the continued availability of service across SAFARI C3's fully redundant architecture, and the ability to support end-to-end delivery of voice and enhanced features through integrated announcement functions and interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. with OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. systems. The demonstration will be packaged into Cedar cedar, common name for a number of trees, mostly coniferous evergreens. The true cedars belong to the small genus Cedrus of the family Pinaceae (pine family). Point's QuickStart unit, which incorporates all of the equipment necessary for voice services into a single seven-foot rack. "Operational simplicity, cost effectiveness and reliability continue to be recurrent recurrent /re·cur·rent/ (re-kur´ent) [L. recurrens returning] 1. running back, or toward the source. 2. returning after remissions. re·cur·rent adj. 1. themes for operators exploring the deployment of voice services," said Dave Spear, executive vice president, strategy and market development for Cedar Point Communications. "Our demonstration will show how quickly cable system operators can turn up service that they have complete ownership over, offers expanded feature sets, and delivers Quality of Service that is equal - or superior -- to today's circuit switches." The Cedar Point exhibit will also demonstrate SAFARI C3's unique reverse gateway functionality that enables the handling of both VoIP and circuit switched calls simultaneously on the same next generation packet switch fabric, allowing for the first elegant migration strategy for the more than 5 million cable telephony See cable telephone. subscribers worldwide served today by legacy circuit switches. The only integrated carrier-class voice-over-IP solution designed exclusively for the cable industry, SAFARI C3 utilizes a unique set of PacketClass(TM) technologies to bring the high quality and reliability of today's Class 5 voice switches to a packet environment. SAFARI C3 provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. services while increasing network integrity, security and privacy. About Cedar Point Communications Cedar Point Communications has created and commercialized SAFARI C3(TM) Media Switching System, an entirely new category of voice switching equipment tailored exclusively to the broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). cable operator's telephony and broadband media needs. Based on CableLabs(R) PacketCable(TM) specifications, SAFARI C3's totally integrated Carrier Class Cable (C3) telephony solution is a cost-efficient, less complex alternative to current circuit switched and distributed soft-switching cable telephony options, and provides an elegant migration path from legacy circuit voice deployments. Founded by telephony and data veterans, Cedar Point has assembled a management team and an advisory board that also include cable operations, broadband communications and manufacturing experts. Cedar Point has received funding from a high-level group of investors that includes STAR Ventures, Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures, Battery Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital and Ascent Venture Partners. The company is based in Derry, N.H., with additional offices in Denver, CO. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com. CableLabs(R) and PacketCable(TM) are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. An equipment demonstration at a CableLabs event does not constitute CableLabs' endorsement of that equipment. |
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