CommWorks Maintains Number One Position in Worldwide Softswitch Market.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers ROLLING MEADOWS Rolling Meadows, city (1990 pop. 22,591), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1955. There is research and development and the manufacture of office supplies and electronic components. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 Company Earns Top Ranking for Third Consecutive Quarter CommWorks, a 3Com Company (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 : COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) and a leader in building multi-service Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) networks for the world's largest telecommunications service providers, again holds the number one position in the worldwide softswitch market, the company announced today. CommWorks' leadership position is confirmed in a new report from a respected telecom industry research firm. Synergy Research Group Inc., a leading provider of strategic market data and analysis on the global communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , reported that CommWorks topped all competitors with 19 percent of the worldwide softswitch/application server market during the first quarter of calendar year 2002. CommWorks increased its share of the market by 3 percentage points during the quarter, the only major softswitch vendor that increased its market share in Q1, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Synergy. CommWorks now leads its closest competitor in this category by 8 percentage points. This marks the third consecutive quarter that CommWorks has held market share leadership in the category, according to Synergy. (Source: Worldwide Voice over IP (VoIP) Equipment Market Share Report, Synergy Research Group, Inc., May 2002) "Broad deployments of transparent IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. infrastructure, carrying tens of millions of billable minutes of voice traffic, are happening today and will serve as the springboard for the development of a new class of enhanced communications services," said Jeremy Duke, founder and principal analyst, Synergy Research Group. "Carriers that are benefiting from the network efficiencies and cost savings made possible by packet telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. are increasingly interested in adding revenue-generating softswitch-based services," said Houman Modarres, director, softswitch product management, CommWorks. "This is especially true for services targeted at business customers, including conferencing, integrated messaging and presence-driven personalized call treatment." CommWorks(R) IP telephony equipment has carried more than 7.8 billion minutes of voice traffic since April 2000, and is now transporting more than 570 million minutes of voice traffic per month for carriers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. Wireline and wireless service providers use CommWorks equipment integrate of IP networks with 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. ) for the delivery of toll-quality voice as well as a comprehensive suite of value-added enhanced services and applications. The CommWorks IP telephony system is based on a three-tier architecture of media gateways, softswitch elements for call control, signaling and service creation; and back-end servers interconnected by open standards-based protocols. The first tier, featuring the Total Control(R) 1000 and Total Control 2000 platforms, performs media gateway functions to integrate multiple traffic types and accommodate disparate networks. The CommWorks Softswitch works with these multi-service access platforms to provide end-to-end, carrier-grade IP-based communications. The softswitch operates in tiers two and three of the architecture. At tier two This article or section documents a scheduled or expected spaceflight. Details may change as the launch date approaches or more information becomes available. , it provides media control and management, session control functions and multi-protocol PSTN/IP signaling. At tier three, the softswitch is responsible for critical network services, including accounting, authentication and rating, billing support, directory mapping, and Web provisioning. About CommWorks CommWorks, a 3Com Company (NASDAQ: COMS), supplies network service providers around the world with access infrastructures and IP services platforms that open new business opportunities and help them establish unique positions in a competitive marketplace. With flexible multi-service hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and modular software components, the comprehensive CommWorks architecture makes it possible for service providers to integrate their existing infrastructures with innovative technologies to deliver an array of next-generation IP-based enhanced services to their customers. For further information, visit www.commworks.com. About 3Com Corporation 3Com is a global leader in functionally rich, easy-to-use-networking products that connect businesses to their employees, customers and suppliers - anytime, anywhere. 3Com is also a leader in Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider market. In 1979, the company was founded by one of the inventors of Ethernet technology on which virtually all local area networks are based. Since then, 3Com has sold more than 340,000,000 Ethernet connections. 3Com has headquarters in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. and office around the world. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site www.3com.com/pressbox. 3Com, CommWorks and Total Control are registered trademarks and the CommWorks logo is a trademark of 3Com Corporation. |
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