Cisco Systems, HP Develop New, Integrated Voice And Data Telecom Platforms.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. and PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998-- Family of Open Platforms to Allow Service Providers to Accelerate the Delivery of Value-added Services across Voice and Data Networks Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, and Hewlett-Packard Company, a worldwide leader in IT infrastructure for telecommunications, today announced OpenCall Multiservice Controllers, a family of jointly developed service platforms aimed at speeding service providers' ability to offer value-added voice and data services seamlessly over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) and the data-packet network, such as the Internet. HP and Cisco have combined HP OpenCall OpenCall is a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and telephony products. It is most commonly described as a suite of software and hardware applications which allow implementation of common telecom operator services such as , an industry-leading, open Intelligent Network (IN) platform, with Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a (R) software to create the new OpenCall Multiservice Controllers. The family of platforms will enable rapid creation and deployment of advanced voice, video and data services from enterprise to public Voice over Packet Network (VoPN) with the capability to fully integrate with conventional PSTN. The family of platforms will enable multiservice applications to span the PSTN and VoPN, providing such functions as 800-number access and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. that previously were available only from conventional PSTN and private branch exchanges (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). ). "Vendors that provide a carrier-grade platform that will allow a service to be developed once and deployed across several networks will help service providers lower costs while giving them a real competitive edge," said John Coons, principal analyst, Internet Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Dataquest. Since these services will behave identically across both PSTN and VoPN, service providers will be able to offer easy-to-use services to the broadest market at reduced development and operational costs. The HP and Cisco approach is differentiated through an open service-creation environment, including programs for third-party application developers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) to rapidly create the new value-added services and deploy them in multivendor communication networks. "Enterprise customers are demanding increasingly complex and reliable services, driving us to invest in more open, flexible and robust technology," said Jukka T. Leinonen, chief executive officer, Sonera Solutions, a business operation of Sonera Ltd. (formerly Telecom Finland Ltd.). "We are confident that the HP and Cisco relationship will provide service providers with the architecture and solutions for a more scalable, reliable and highly available infrastructure, enabling service providers to offer innovative IP services to their customers. Sonera supports HP's and Cisco's efforts to drive the new market of personalized IP services and looks forward to future endeavors with them." Availability Initially, the OpenCall Multiservice Controllers, expected to be available in the first calendar quarter of 1999, will be based on HP's market-leading UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services (R) HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and will provide value-added VoPN services to Cisco's network elements, such as Cisco SC2200 and products running Cisco IOS software. Future releases of OpenCall Multiservice Controllers will be available on multiple platforms. In the second half of 1999, support for end-to-end voice calls between the PSTN and IP networks will be added. This allows PSTN and IP infrastructures to merge, so that a user on a traditional wireline or wireless phone can seamlessly and transparently connect with user on an IP phone. It also permits services to behave identically, independent of the network on which the user resides. For example, a single VPN service could easily be developed to behave identically on (POTS) plain old telephone systems, wireless and IP phones. Cisco will incorporate the OpenCall Multiservice Controllers into its VoPN infrastructure. The service platforms will also be available from HP as a part of the HP OpenCall platform product family. For more information, see http://www.cisco.com/go/hptelecom or http://www.hp.com/telecom. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. About HP's Telecom Business Unit HP, a worldwide leader in IT infrastructure for telecommunications, delivers UNIX system(R) and Windows NT(R) world-class technology, products and services that help service providers and ISPs be successful as the Internet and telephony worlds converge. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. Note to Editors: Cisco IOS, Cisco, Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. |
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