Excel, Inc. releases new advancements in reliability.HYANNIS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1997-- Product Enhancements Include New Service Capabilities Excel, Inc., the leading provider of programmable switch technology, announced LNX LNX Linux (operating system) LNX Links Release 5.0 today. This major software release offers key enhancements to redundancy for its products, as well as important new features for the Expandable Switching System (EXS EXS Expandable Switching System (Lucent) EXS Executed Schedule ) product line. The release marks another milestone in the company's aggressive rollout of products to address the rigorous requirements of the carrier and service provider community for high-reliability wireless and wireline network services. "Release 5.0 combines several important new capabilities for Excel's products, enhancing both the reliability and functionality of our switches," said Russ Levesque, Director of Product Management. "The new capabilities translate into direct benefits to the service provider: continuous service availability for subscribers, the ability to expand subscribership without interrupting service, and enabling technologies that can be utilized to offer new customer services. Our product strategy is to continue offering increasing levels of system capability, to enable our customers to bring new services to market quickly and effectively. Release 5.0 provides several of these important capabilities." The enhancements offered in Release 5.0 are representative of the advancements Excel has made in switching technology, and reconfirm re·con·firm tr.v. re·con·firmed, re·con·firm·ing, re·con·firms To confirm again, especially to establish or support more firmly: reconfirmed the reservations. its technology leadership position. First, system redundancy has been extended to the company's multi-node ring architecture, the EXS, providing high reliability to switching capacities of over 15,000 ports. Another enhancement extends redundancy of the ISDN PRI ISDN PRI Integrated Services Digital Network Primary Rate Interface (also seen as ISDN-PRI) product to include a hot-standby mode of recovery. In addition to the reliability enhancements, Excel is extending the capabilities of the EXS architecture. Release 5.0 enables a single host to manage an entire EXS ring, reducing the burden on the host of having to manage multiple connections to the ring, and providing an easy migration path from a single switch installation to a multi-node EXS ring. Release 5.0 also supports conferencing between nodes across an EXS ring, allowing conferees connected to several nodes to be conferenced together in a single call. Modular, common platform components further protect system investments. Reliability Options Excel's programmable switches are designed to support duplexed components in order to ensure against any single point of failure. The Expandable Switching System (EXS) enables customers to link multiple Excel switches together in a fiber-optic self-healing ring A self-healing ring, or SHR, is a common configuration in telecommunications transmission systems. SDH, SONET and WDM systems are often configured in self-healing rings. Description architecture, achieving high port capacities in a single non-blocking switch. Release 5.0 brings redundancy to the ring architecture, safeguarding stable calls even in the event of a failure of the ring components. Should a failure of one of the ring components occur, the EXS system will automatically recognize the event and provide sufficient protection through the secondary component so that the failure will not affect any stable calls. This is errupting service. In addition to the EXS reliability option, Release 5.0 increases ISDN PRI redundancy options. The ISDN PRI product was designed to support du calls, including those that are stable as well as those that are in the process of being set up, will remain connected throughout the switchover switch·o·ver n. A complete shift, as from one system to another. process. This results in better service to end users as well as reduced processing overmable switch offering fault-tolerant operations. The EXS product line offers a distributed switching Distributed switching is an architecture in which multiple processor-controlled switching units are distributed. There is often a hierarchy of switching elements, with a centralized host switch and with remote switches located close to concentrations of users. architecture enabling multiple CSN CSN Crosby, Stills, and Nash (band) CSN Centrala studiestödsnämnden (Swedish: state education grant and loan program) CSN Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (French) or LNX switches, and other telecom and voice resources, to be distributed over a fiber-optic network, supporting over 60,000 non-blocking ports. About Excel, Inc. Excel, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and supports a family of open architecture, programmable switches used in a wide variety of telecommunications applications, including Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN Ain, in the Bible Ain (ā`ĭn), in the Bible. 1 Town, N ancient Palestine. 2 See En-rimmon. Ain, department, France Ain (ăN), department (1990 pop. ), Personal Communications Services See PCS. (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ), wireless and wireline service provisioning, a wide variety of enhanced services, and service bureau operations. The company markets its Karen Steele (508) 862-3145 FAX: (508) 862-3155 ksteele@xl.com KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or |
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