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Trillium Provides NEC with Competitive Advantage, Accelerates Development of Interworking Switch
LOS ANGELES - October 14, 1998 - Trillium Digital Systems, Inc., a leading provider of communications software solutions, today announced that its Interworking Call Control (ICC) software solution enabled the successful introduction of NEC America, Inc.'s ISN 2100, the first broadband-narrowband interworking switch for the public carrier network.
NEC, a world-renowned supplier of advanced communications products and software for public and private networks, is deploying interworking products using Trillium software as a core technology. Trillium's field-proven ICC software provides a framework for seamless interworking between protocols; the NEC ISN 2100 uses Trillium's Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol stacks with Trillium's ICC software to interwork between narrowband and broadband networks.
Much of today's telephony network is based on narrowband technologies such as SS7 and circuit switching. In contrast, broadband networks, used primarily for data, are based on technologies such as ATM. As networks based on these different technologies converge, the need for interworking becomes imperative. Trillium's ICC software enables interoperability between different types of networks and standards, allowing equipment manufacturers to rapidly introduce interworking products such as NEC's ISN 2100.
Dave Smith, Vice President and General Manager of the Network Services Division of NEC's Public Networks Group, said, "Trillium's SS7 and ATM products are widely recognized in the industry. Trillium's interworking software helped us meet our tight development schedules and added significant interworking capabilities to our public network products. This experience confirms our view of Trillium as the right choice for a long-term strategic partner for mission-critical projects that demand high performance and reliability."
"NEC is an excellent business partner, and, like Trillium, is working at the forefront of the industry," said Jeff Lawrence, Trillium president and CEO. "We anticipated the convergence of data and telephony networks early on, recognizing that communications equipment manufacturers would have to provide interworking capabilities in their products to remain competitive. Trillium's ICC software builds on our unique protocol expertise and provides a framework not only for ATM-SS7 interworking but also for H.323, ISDN, V5, Frame Relay, and other technologies."
Trillium's ICC software for the NEC ISN 2100 switch provides interworking between B-ISUP and ISUP to support broadband-narrowband interworking. In addition, Trillium's broadband-narrowband solution also provides interworking functionality between variants such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standards, which allows interworking between networks based on different national and international standards. Future releases of Trillium's ICC software will provide solutions for ATM-ISDN, H.323-SS7, ISDN-SS7, ATM-SS7, and H.323-ISDN interworking.
Continuous Computing acquired the portable software business of Trillium Digital Systems from Intel Corporation in February 2003.
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