Franklin to partner with Rockwell in K56flex applications.WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1997--Franklin Telecom (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :FTEL FTEL Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Ltd. ) Thursday announced that it has entered the final design phase to incorporate the widely supported K56flex architecture from Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ROK) into a series of new product models and services. Franklin has been working with Rockwell for a year and a half, both directly and through StarComm Products Inc., Franklin's partner in manufacturing modems, and has completed testing and microcoding the K56flex for unique applications in the Franklin arena which will be available later this summer. These applications will include: --The D-Mark Cyclone modem/channel bank --FNet Internet Services --The ICM-8 board --Two additional hardware products which have not yet been announced Franklin Telecom's new Cyclone, the first of these products to incorporate the K56flex, will provide on-line service and Internet connections over standard telephone lines at speeds nearly twice as fast as conventional modems. The Cyclone, which includes up to 24 built-in modems, terminates a T-1 line into up to 24 channels that can transmit a combination of voice, fax and/or modem data. FNet, one of Franklin's Internet subsidiaries, will be a primary customer for the Cyclones, making sure that FNet dial-up customers with 56Kbps capabilities will have the fastest possible state-of-the-art connections. According to Vijay Parikh, vice president and general manager for the Multimedia Communication Division of Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, "We at Rockwell are happy to have Franklin Telecom and FNet join the industry's top communication equipment manufacturers and Internet Service Providers in endorsing K56flex technology and making it available to their customers and subscribers." In addition, Cyclone users will be able to achieve these fast connections with a wide range of other leading service providers, including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Compuserve and Netcom, all of whom have announced support for Rockwell's K56flex chipset technology. More than 300 ISPs and leading Internet backbone providers, including UUNet, BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. and PSINet have also pledged their support of Rockwell's technology. Plus, Franklin joins the world's leading central-site modem manufacturers who are now using Rockwell's chipsets to upgrade an installed equipment base that represents the majority of Internet access ports worldwide. In all, it has been estimated that 75 percent of Internet ports are based on Rockwell or Rockwell-compatible equipment. According to Franklin's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Frank Peters, "The Franklin Cyclone combines a great product and unparalleled customer support with the most widely supported 56Kbps chip technology available. "Because so many equipment vendors, service providers and Internet backbone companies support the K56flex technology to be used in our Cyclones, we believe our customers will consistently get the fastest, most reliable Internet connections available. We believe Rockwell's technology will become the primary technology of the future for ISPs and corporate data centers." Franklin is also putting the K56flex into the ICM-8, an 8-port modem board set with an MVIP (MultiVendor Integration Protocol) A voice bus and switching protocol developed by Natural Microsystems, Natick, MA, and others. Used to build call center equipment using regular PCs, MVIP provides a second communications bus within the computer that can above-board bus which enables independent contractors, Computer Telephony Integrators (CTIs) and 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). designers to integrate this card, with its enhanced capabilities, into their systems. As the industry migrates to worldwide 56Kbps modem standards that Rockwell is helping to define, the D-Mark Cyclones and Franklin board products can be easily upgraded. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , Rockwell and Lucent Technologies, two of the world's leading manufacturers of modem chips, have announced that they will develop a mutual interoperability standard that has gained the support of leading PC OEMs, including AST (AST Computer, Irvine, CA) A PC manufacturer founded in 1980 by Albert Wong, Safi Quershey and Tom Yuen (A, S and T). It offered a complete line of PCs that sold through its dealer channel. , Compaq, Hewlett Packard and Toshiba. The primary business of Franklin Telecom, founded in 1981, is the design and manufacturing of communications devices, high speed LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , WAN, Telco & Satellite Systems and software. Franklin has an installed base of more than 100,000 nodes worldwide. FNet, Franklin's Internet division, is a national, full-service Internet Service Provider that focuses on corporate and professional Internet usage. Rockwell is a global electronics company with leadership market positions in industrial automation, semiconductor systems and avionics and communications, with projected fiscal 1997 sales of approximately $8 billion and 44,000 employees. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, based in Newport Beach, Calif., comprises the Multimedia Communications Division (MCD MCD Minor Civil Division MCD McDonalds (restaurant) Mcd Macedonian (linguistics) MCD Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism MCD Mad Cow Disease ), the Wireless Communications Division (WCD), the Network Access Division (NAD NAD: see coenzyme. ), and the Digital Infotainment Division. MCD is the world leader in facsimile and PC modem devices for personal communications electronics. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: For the latest up-to-minute information about Franklin's family of companies, visit the company's Web site at http://www.ftel.com CONTACT: Franklin Telecom, Westlake Village Helen West, 805/373-8688 |
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