TollBridge Technologies Targets Next-Generation Carriers With Enhancements to Its Voice Gateway System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 New Features such as System Redundancy Having a secondary peripheral, computer system or network device that takes over when the primary unit fails. See fault tolerant, mirroring, RAID, hot standby and backup types. 1. , Load Monitoring, Dynamic Load Balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , Hot Swapping (hardware) hot swapping - The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software. , Remote Maintenance, and Enhanced GR-303 Capabilities Improve Performance TollBridge tollbridge n → pont m à péage tollbridge toll n → gebührenpflichtige Brücke f, Mautbrücke f Technologies, the leading developer of high-quality voice-over-broadband solutions for a new generation of carriers, today announced Release 1.3 of its Voice Gateway system software. Release 1.3 contains a host of powerful new carrier-class features, including system redundancy, load monitoring, dynamic load balancing, hot swapping, remote maintenance, and enhanced GR-303 capabilities. These critical features enable Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) to simply and effectively manage, upgrade, and load-balance voice and data networks based on TollBridge's carrier-class TB200 Local Exchange Gateway and TB50 Integrated Access Devices An IAD is a customer premises device that provides access to wide area networks and the Internet. Specifically, it aggregates multiple channels of information including voice and data across a single shared access link to a carrier or service provider PoP (Point of Presence). (IADs). TollBridge systems that support thousands of phone lines are already deployed in multiple cities across the U.S. &uot;Carrier-class reliability and non-stop non-stop non adj → ununterbrochen; (flight) → Nonstop-, Non-Stop- adv → ununterbrochen; [fly] → operation--the familiar 99.999 percent availability, 24x7--are key factors in the easy acceptance and rapid deployment Installing, setting up, testing and running. This military term, which means the placement of troops and equipment in the field, is widely used with computers as an alternate to the word "implementation. of new voice technologies,&uot; said Agnes Agnes young girl, affects to be simple and ingenuous. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes] See : Naïveté Imregh, TollBridge's vice president of marketing. &uot;Carriers are increasingly demanding that new voice access systems exhibit the same availability and serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. characteristics of traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) systems. Release 1.3 allows carriers to deploy and manage on a large scale the integrated voice and data services they sell to lucrative business customer segment of the market.&uot; Important New Features Release 1.3 of the TollBridge system software provides a number of important new features:
- System Redundancy
Upon detecting a faulty logic module, the TollBridge system can
now automatically and instantly re-allocate the module's
functions to a &uot;hot&uot; spare module that is already running and
ready for use. This logic hot-swapping does not incur the
downtime that hot-swapping system components does.
- Carrier-Class Architecture
TollBridge employs a scalable architecture that separates
control, management, and bearer planes in the TB200, thus
allowing for fault isolation. The architecture also allows for
deterministic system performance, which ensures consistent
performance for all calls--whether the first, the hundredth, or
the thousandth simultaneous call--as long as the call load is
below the capacity of the system. Such performance is achieved
through the use of non-blocking packet and Time Division
Multiplex (TDM) switch fabrics within the Gateway.
In a shared-bus architecture, the control, management, and bearer
planes all contend for a shared resource like a Peripheral
Component Interface (PCI) bus. While this architecture may be
suitable for a general computing (PC) environment, it does not
possess the reliability and scalability required by voice
carriers and can lead to unacceptable delay in voice calls.
- Load Monitoring and Dynamic Load Balancing
These new features will allow the operator to monitor call load
and dynamically balance this load across system components.
- Enhanced GR-303 and T1 Capabilities
Release 1.3 provides expanded GR-303 management and T1 line
control and configuration features. The network manager can
select one of four pre-programmed switch configurations simply by
specifying the switch type on the TB200 management screen. The
TB200 then automatically configures the switch--it does not need
to be configured manually. Switch types supported include the
5ESS from Lucent, the DMS100/500 from Nortel, the EWSD from
Siemens, and the GDT5 from AGCS. The network manager can also
control T1 line parameters such as framing, line coding, and line
attenuation from a simple management interface.
- Remote Serviceability of TB50 IADs
Powerful new features in Release 1.3 allow the network manager to
control automated remote batch upgrade, service, and control of
up to thousands of TB50 IADs from the TB200, eliminating costly
truck-rolls to customer premises.
With these new features, carriers can now deploy
TollBridge-powered voice networks with true carrier-class Reliability,
Availability, and Serviceability features. Carriers can focus on
enhanced voice and data features - the things they do best--and treat
the TollBridge voice network as a transparent, scalable, powerful, and
self-healing vehicle over which to deliver these services.
About TollBridge Solutions
Designed to let voice providers bypass Incumbent Local Exchange
Carriers (ILECs) and offer voice services over broadband connections,
the TollBridge product set consists of three elements:
- The TB50, an Integrated Access Device (IAD) that converts voice
samples from multiple calls into packets and prioritizes voice
and data traffic for transmission over any broadband access
network;
- The TB200, a carrier-grade Local Exchange Gateway that translates
packets back into voice and connects to Class 5 switches using
the Bellcore GR-303 protocol and new emerging protocols such as
the Segment Interface Protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control
Point (MGCP);
- TollView(TM) Management Suite, including EMS, a graphical Element
Management System (EMS) for end-to-end configuration,
troubleshooting, and performance management of up to 100 TB200
systems from HP OpenView(TM) on SUN Solaris(TM) platforms.
Pricing and Availability Release 1.3 of TollBridge's Voice Gateway system software is now shipping on TollBridge products. Free software upgrades are available to existing customers. About TollBridge Technologies Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading provider of voice-over-broadband solutions to a new generation of carriers. TollBridge solutions change the economics of delivering voice services by allowing carriers that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. technologies, such as DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary or cable, to bypass In communications, to avoid the local telephone company by using satellites and microwave systems. the incumbent local exchange carrier ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) also known as the "Baby Bells". (ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. ) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. For more information about TollBridge Technologies, visit the company's Website at http://www.tollbridgetech.com or contact Kendyl Kellogg at (408) 585-2145. |
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