Thomson CSF Delivers New Networking Products; Now Offers Backbone to Desktop ATM Switching.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1997--Thomson CSF Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Analysis Definition Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a laboratory test to examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. announced today that it has added several products to its growing ATM multimedia switch portfolio. New products include: -- The Thomflex 5500 Enterprise Workgroup switch -- The first multiport T1/E1 interface cards to support the new ATM Forum Inverse Multiplexing specification -- High density multiport 25 Mbps interface cards for all Thomflex ATM switches -- Sophisticated usage-based billing enhancements for existing WAN interfaces, including full featured loopback and comprehensive per-VC traffic counters A Growing Multimedia Product Line Thomson CSF has been building ATM switches for over ten years and is currently shipping its fourth generation switch product line, the Thomflex 5000 series. These switches are currently deployed in hospitals, military networks, banks, ISPs, and large enterprise and Telco networks around the world seamlessly integrating video and data services in the network backbone. The Thomflex 5500 is a new product which has been designed to offer cost effective workgroup and/or branch network multimedia service provisioning The Thomflex 5500 employs the patented Thomson VideoXpress architecture which guarantees zero cell loss, ultra-low jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle video delivery under even the most intense data traffic loading. Other product features include UNI 3.0/3.1/4.0 signaling, UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org). , EPD EPD expected progeny difference. , IISP IISP Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (ANSI) IISP Interim Interswitch Signaling Protocol IISP Institute of Information Security Professionals IISP International Institute for Software Process , ILMI ILMI Integrated Local Management Interface ILMI Interim Local Management Interface ILMI Interim Link Management Interface (ATMF) ILMI Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (US National Park Service) , E-NNI E-NNI External Network-to-Network Interface E-NNI External-Node-to-Node Interface (IEEE) , P-NNI P-NNI Private Network to Network Interface (usually seen as PNNI) , and support for the Explicit Rate Available Bit Rate (ABR (1) (AutoBaud Rate detect) The analysis of the first characters of a message to determine its transmission speed and number of start and stop bits. (2) (Available Bit R ) service. The Thomflex 5500 is the only enterprise ATM switch shipping today which offers true "Mix-and-Match" selection of physical interface modules. The chassis supports up to 16 interface slots which can be individually equipped with T1/E1, 25Mbps, T3/E3, or OC-3c/SDH modules as required. The product has been shipping since July and is priced starting at $16,400. The new multiport 25 Mbps hub module supports 6 - 25.6 Mbps physical modules on a single card. Multiple 25 Mbps modules can be placed in a workgroup Thomflex 5500, which can serve as a high port density 25 Mbps switching hub with sophisticated connectivity into the ATM network core. The 6 port module sells for $1,900. The T1/E1 Inverse Multiplexing module allows network administrators to economically link remote sites by aggregating low speed links rather than purchasing much more costly high bandwidth WAN connections. The physical module supports 4 T1/E1 physical connections and sells for $4,980. Provisioning Multimedia Services Over the Network As network administrators face increased internal pressures to deploy intranet video services, video conferencing, collaborative computing, or any of a host of multimedia services it is clear that the network must be capable of keeping up with these new demands while still supporting traditional networking applications. Beyond providing just additional bandwidth the network must also deliver highly deterministic transport for real-time (video and voice) while still providing reliable data delivery. The Thomflex network architecture has been specifically designed to deliver extremely high bandwidth to workgroups and power users while also guaranteeing service qualities to delay insensitive multimedia applications. These new products enhance the ability of the Thomflex architecture to deploy a new generation of integrated video and data services from the backbone to local and remote desktops and guarantee high performance and "plug-and-play" integration into existing network infrastructure. -0- Note to Editors: Thomson CSF Enterprise Networks (TEN) is the ATM networking subsidiary of the giant $18 billion Thomson group of companies. Thomson has been building ATM networking products for over ten years and today earns more than $100 Million annually in ATM sales. TEN delivers a complete line of networked multimedia products which seamlessly integrate with existing network infrastructure and allow network administrators to deploy a new generation of mixed media services throughout their organization CONTACT: Thomson CSF Nicholas Volte volte n. Sports Variant of volt2. , 408/467-9081 |
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