CommWorks and Eutectics Team to Offer Service Providers, Enterprises New IP Telephony Options.Business/Technology Editors 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. and FAIRFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002 Eutectics Eutectics The microstructures that result when a solution of metal of eutectic composition solidifies. The eutectic reaction must be distinguished from eutectic microstructures. Internet Power Phone 200 Designated as CommWorks(R) Tested after Rigorous SIP Product Testing 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 Eutectics, Inc. are expanding opportunities for service providers and enterprises to benefit from the efficiencies and service-creation capabilities enabled by 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) telephony. The companies said today they have completed a series of rigorous tests that demonstrated how a carrier could offer its customers enhanced voice services using the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) communications standard without costly network upgrades and telephone equipment replacement. More than 65 tests were conducted using the Internet Power Phone 200 handset product from Eutectics; and CommWorks' Total Control(R) 1000 Media Gateway and elements of the CommWorks(R) Softswitch, including accounting, billing, directory, and provisioning servers. Eutectics' Internet Power Phone 200 is now designated as CommWorks(R) Tested. "SIP is recognized as a leading protocol for telephony and multimedia application call control," said James Biggs, director, business development, CommWorks. "Its functionality, scalability and ease of use are establishing a new service creation environment for voice services. By working with companies like Eutectics on product compatibility, we are easing the transition to this new class of communication services." CommWorks' support for SIP is present throughout its carrier-class, three-tier 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. architecture of media gateways; softswitch elements for call control, signaling and service creation; and back-end servers interconnected by open standards-based protocols. "Productivity applications run at the desktop and Eutectics phones offer an effective and inexpensive solution which turns the PC into the preferred device for all types of applications," said Michael D. Lynes, vice president, Eutectics Incorporated. "Eutectics phones introduce high quality duplex audio to converged desktop applications and significantly reduce the cost of high-quality IP telephony implementations." CommWorks is among the world's leading providers of carrier-class IP telephony equipment and is the softswitch market leader, 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. Infonetics Research (Next-gen Voice Products Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts, May 2002) and Synergy Research Group, Inc. (Worldwide Voice over IP (VoIP) Equipment Market Share Report, May 2002). CommWorks IP telephony equipment has carried more than 8.3 billion minutes of voice traffic for service providers around the world, and is now running at a rate of more than 675 million minutes per month. About Eutectics Eutectics is a leading developer of high performance, inexpensive end-user equipment for IP telephony applications. Eutectics new generation of phones greatly improve the capabilities of PC-based telephony. Superior audio quality and full integration with PC-based soft phone clients. Eutectics' phones connect to the PC's Universal Series Bus (USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. ) port instead of the standard wall socket. The full Eutectics product line includes USB desk phones, USB headsets and USB multi-station cordless phones. Eutectics, www.eutecticsinc.com, supports its worldwide customer base from its corporate headquarters in Fairfield, N.J., and its offices in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . About CommWorks CommWorks, a 3Com Company, 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 See modular programming. 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 360,000,000 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 offices 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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