Siemens Announces New Release for EWSD Central Office Switch; Latest Release of World's Leading Switch Features Improvements, Including "Y2K" Solution.BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1998--Release 16.0 of Siemens Telecom Networks' EWSD EWSD Elektronisches WaehlSystem Digital (German: Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital) EWSD Electronic Worldwide Switch Digital Switching System, available during the first quarter of 1999, will feature a variety of new features, operational efficiencies and cost savings for local and long distance carriers and advanced intelligent network (AIN) service providers. The EWSD switch is the world market leader in digital switching systems, with more than 160 million ports installed. Release 16.0 was designed to strengthen the EWSD switch's market leadership and add value to customers who rely on the equipment for their networks. The latest release introduces new services and improves existing ones, enabling service providers to utilize a single advanced switching platform for local and long distance service and offer a wide range of tailored customer solutions for voice, video, data and wireless applications. The EWSD Release 16.0 feature package includes: Architecture Features - Software modifications have been made to adapt the EWSD switch to be millennium-ready for the Year 2000 and beyond. Business Features - Electronic key telephone system (EKTS EKTS Electronic Key Telephone Set/System )/ analog interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. capabilities have been added, allowing analog users to take advantage of the call-handling flexibility and standardization of ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. . Other features include custom calling service enhancements in the areas of call hold, call park and call waiting, and the ISDN smart attendant services to support reminder and recall, direct station select and busy lamp fields. Call-Handling Features - To support Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), an expanded feature set offers five new triggers: off-hook immediate, one plus, specified carrier, operator service and international. The collect information message feature will allow service providers to offer extended services using the existing switch-based features. To ensure efficient network traffic management, Release 16 supports enhanced route selection to local number portability "LNP" redirects here. For the airport in Virginia with that IATA code, see Lonesome Pine Airport. For the compound InP, see Indium phosphide. Local number portability, (LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability (LNP (Local Number Portability) The capability of keeping the same local telephone number when switching carriers. See NP and WLNP. ) capable switches, even when the switches can only be identifi ed in the network by a single location routing number. In addition, Government Emergency Telecommunication Services (GETS) is introduced and will be supported either in an end office or access tandem configuration. ISDN (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. ) Enhancements - Already a leader in ISDN, Siemens has enhanced its position with the introduction of new Basic and Primary Rate ISDN capabilities. Improved features for basic rate ISDN include virtual key parameter downloading, ISDN inspect, uniform cause values and e xplicit call transfer. Numerous Primary Rate capabilities have been added, such as two B-channel transfer for 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). and intelligent peripheral applications, service route advance for Internet applications and B-channel availability. Long Distance Features - For long distance, Release 16.0 includes higher throughput for automatic message accounting Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) provides detail billing for telephone calls. When Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) was introduced in the USA, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. , public and private speed dialing services, hotline services, switch-based calling card and debit card debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. services. The ability to perform code screening and fraud detection is enhanced, and AIN triggers specific to the needs of long distance carriers provide access to an array of service node-based services and revenue opportunities, using Siemens' AIN-based Fast Feature Platform. SS7 Features - A-link consolidation enhances the EWSD system's capabilities with signaling transfer point capabilities for message routing from subtending offices to the SS7 network. Operations Features - Operational enhancements are being introduced in the areas of line and trunk administration, translation verification and database table sizing. This should result in significant cost savings for telcos. Based on customer need, enhancements such as a new magneto-optic disk subsystem to increase data storage reliability have been added in Release 16.0. Initial law enforcement intercept administration capabilities are available, in response to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994 (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279). In its own words, the purpose of CALEA is: CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 CALEA Communication Assistance to Low Enforcement Act ). Siemens Telecom Networks is a leading provider of solutions to the public network service providers in North America. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., the company designs and manufactures digital central office switching equipment, access network solutions, broadband switching systems, wireless solutions, end-to-end multimedia solutions, Internet solutions, network management products and transmission products. Siemens Telecom Networks is a subsidiary of Siemens AG, which has annual revenues of $63.7 billion (FY 96-97) and has operations in 193 countries. Home page: www.stn.siemens.com. -0- Siemens and EWSD are registered trademarks of Siemens AG.
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