New NEC Router Helps Protect Integrity and Privacy of Communications; Versatile Router Provides Advanced Quality of Service, Security and Performance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2003 NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. America, Inc. (NEC), the second leading provider of customer premise communications systems 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. , today announced the general availability of the BlueFire(R) IX2200 router. The new router can help enterprises deliver secure converged voice and data networking from its main office to branch facilities requiring connectivity back to the central site. The new router is available immediately from NEC's authorized BlueFire dealers. The IX2200, part of NEC's growing BlueFire family of data networking solutions, offers significantly more features than a traditional firewall, making it easier for an organization to protect the integrity and privacy of its communications. It supports IP Security (IPsec), which allows packet-by-packet encryption and authentication. "We're seeing many of our users converging voice and data through our access routers," explained John Stafford John Stafford may refer to:
"This is an excellent routing solution for a company's main offices or for branch offices," said Mikio Imokawa, network technology vice president for IPND. "It is especially suitable for today's converged voice and data environments. The advanced QoS capabilities of the BlueFire IX2200 allow the prioritization of delay-sensitive voice traffic while supporting a single network instead of two separate ones." The BlueFire IX2200 enables users to build networks that address specific business requirements with a broad range of connectivity options. Two fixed 10/100 Ethernet ports facilitate 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. connections and three expansion slots support additional Ethernet connections or variable WAN ports. Wide area T-1 traffic can be channelized Refers to an architecture that transmits data in channels. It often refers to the 64 Kbps channels in T1 lines, which were originally developed to handle digitized voice streams (TDM). See TDM. or formatted as either Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. or IP. A T-1 Drop and Insert In a multichannel transmission system, a drop and insert is a process that diverts (drops) a portion of the multiplexed aggregate signal at an intermediate point, and introduces (inserts) a different signal for subsequent transmission in the same position, e.g. option facilitates the integration of voice and data traffic. Contacts: For more information, photographs and interviews please contact the following: Steve Kopel, NEC America, 214-262-2411, skopel@necam.com or Jorge Alday, Ruder Finn, 212-715-1641, aldayj@ruderfinn.com About NEC America, Inc. NEC America, Inc., headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions and services. NEC America serves all communications industries from carriers, to enterprise, to wireless and is an affiliate of NEC Corporation (Nasdaq:NIPNY), a Global Fortune 500(R) company and one of the leading patent producing enterprises in the world. For more information about NEC telecommunications solutions for the enterprise market, visit www.cng.nec.com. NEAX NEAX Nippon Electric Automated Exchange is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. BlueFire is a registered trademark of NEC America, Inc. |
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