Digital Sound's ISDN software implementation gives Siemens competitive advantage.CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1996--Digital Sound Corp. (NASDAQ/NM:DGSD DGSD Delta-Greely School District (Alaska) ), a leading supplier of network-based multimedia applications, Tuesday announced that as a result of a customized signaling software implementation, Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. , Public Communication Networks Group can now offer network carriers a full range of voice and fax messaging services as well as future communication services. Digital Sound, working in alliance with Siemens, created a custom Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. (ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. )-Primary Rate Interface (PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ) software implementation which enables Digital Sound's VoiceServer messaging platform to integrate with both Siemens' EWSD EWSD Elektronisches WaehlSystem Digital (German: Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital) EWSD Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital switch and Intelligent Network service node. ``This ISDN implementation provides network carriers with the ability to offer advanced voice and fax messaging services that will generate significant revenue. In turn, these enhanced services will offer consumers the advanced means of communication they need,'' said Ruth Cox, vice president of marketing, Digital Sound. ``We are very pleased to have worked closely with Siemens to develop a certified signaling capability that enhances Siemens' service offerings and competitive position in the market.'' Digital Sound's ISDN-PRI ISDN-PRI Integrated Services Digital Network Primary Rate Interface is a full software implementation that offers service providers faster and cheaper call management capabilities. By embedding the signaling software in its VoiceServer platform, Digital Sound's ISDN implementation eliminates the need for costly additional hardware and external, often unreliable, network interfaces. Linking directly to the switch through ISDN enables calls to be processed faster and more reliably with less cost. It also allows customized switch integration to meet individual network carriers' needs. In addition to providing carriers with full-featured voice mail capability, networked voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available. and fax messaging, Digital Sound's software implementation will also provide carriers in the near term with advanced services like Unified Messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. that consolidate multimedia messages from different communications devices into one mailbox. ``This high-quality, high-performance ISDN implementation enhances Siemens' ability to address the worldwide demand for value-added multimedia messaging applications,'' said Professor Dr. Dieter Carl, senior director of Intelligent Network engineering at Siemens AG, Public Communication Networks Group. ``Digital Sound flawlessly met our internal acceptance testing and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (body) European Telecommunications Standards Institute - (ETSI) A European version of the ITU-T(?). (ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. ) requirement.'' Digital Sound's PRI implementation was developed and certified for seamless integration with Siemens AG, Public Communication Networks Group's EWSD switch and service node. The EWSD switch is deployed worldwide and serves millions of telephone access lines which are being upgraded to ISDN. The Digital Sound VoiceServer product is marketed by Siemens under the name of MediaVox 2010. About The Public Communication Networks Group of Siemens Siemens Public Communication Networks Group is one of the world's leading suppliers of solutions for telecommunication infrastructure systems. In the 1994/95 fiscal year, this group, which employs a workforce of around 32,300, recorded sales in the region of DM 10.4 billion. Businesses in 127 countries belong to the customer base of ON. Siemens has received orders for GSM mobile radio networks from 70 network providers in 50 countries throughout the world. With about 110 million ports for 230 network operators in 86 different countries, EWSD from Siemens is one of the world's most popular digital switching systems. About Digital Sound Digital Sound is a leading supplier of network-based, multimedia messaging solutions that give people the freedom to manage voice, fax and e-mail messages anytime, anywhere, using a telephone, personal computer, fax or pager. The company was founded in 1977 and has been publicly traded on 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 since 1990 (symbol: DGSD). Digital Sound's VoiceServer family of products integrates messaging and speech technologies on a single open-systems platform. These products give network service providers a strategic competitive advantage in enhanced services facilitating their ability to capture a greater share of end-users' telecommunications minutes. Digital Sound has headquarters in Santa Barbara County at 6307 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, Calif. 93013. The phone number is 805/566-2000, fax 805/684-2848 and the World Wide Web address is http://www.dsc.com. -0- NOTE: VoiceServer is a registered trademark of Digital Sound Corp. CONTACT: Digital Sound Corp., Carpinteria Mary Ann Johnson, 805/566-2000, ext. 2176 maj@dsc.com |
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