For
Release: October 29, 2001
Telect Uses Mix of In-House Development and NComm’s Best of Breed Purchased Technology to Get M13 Mux To Market in Record Time
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Strategic Use of NComm’s High Quality Code Reduced
Cost and Project Time for Telect
Salem, New
Hampshire, October 29, 2001 – NComm today announced, that Telect, Inc. used
NComm’s DS3 Trunk Management Software to get its MIX56™ M13 multiplexer
offering to market in record time.
Rather than
developing everything in-house, Telect’s Engineering team identified the areas
critical for success and found “off-the-shelf” technology to fill in important
standard technologies used as network interfaces. Telect decided to buy best of
breed technology to greatly advance their development.
“My primary
objective was to get a high quality product to market in the fastest possible
time and do it all at a low cost. We did a build or buy analysis and decided on
NComm. NComm’s DS3 Trunk
Management Software allowed us, cost effectively, to become fully standards
compliant on the network with no effort on our part while we focused our
internal resources on critical, differentiating features and functionality”,
said Jim Vercruyssen, Telect’s Product Marketing Manager.
NComm
develops standards-compliant telecom transport functionality, which provides
multiple benefits. It cuts the risk, cost, and development time of bringing
products to market. Literally within a few days, engineers can be running fully
standards-compliant alarms, maintenance, and performance monitoring and
signaling.
The NComm
Trunk Management Software (TMS™) manages standards compliant transport of T1, E1, DS3 and SONET signals. T1 (1.544 Mbps),
E1 (2.048 Mbps) and DS3 (44.736 Mbps) transport technologies form the basis for virtually the
entire network worldwide today. Telecommunications and data communications
technologies like frame relay and ATM are also frequently carried by lower
layer T1, E1 or DS3 lines. The requirement for standards compliance ensures
that equipment from different manufacturers will be interoperable when used on
different ends or segments of the network.
The Telect MIX56™ integrates two
full-featured M13 multiplexers and a 56 Kbps circuit DSX-1 with connectivity to
optical or metallic DS3 signals. The MIX56™ is capable of T1 or E1
communication. E1 is the European equivalent of North America’s T1, which is a
fundamental building block for the public switched telephone network (PSTN) as
well as many packet data services.
NComm’s Trunk
Management Software portfolio of products includes T1, E1, DS3 and SONET
technologies and soon will include SDH technologies. As companies are becoming
more global in nature, they are developing product platforms that are set to
run an increasing number of WAN protocols. All NComm TMS™ products co-exist
with one another so that all the technology combinations are manageable either
separately or as a group.
NComm TMS™ is
designed to enable communications engineers to use the semiconductor framer of
their choice within their design. NComm provides their TMS customers with a
fully functional device driver to interface with NComm TMS™ for any industry
standard framer. NComm has driver support for DS3 and M13 multiplexer devices
from Dallas Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, and other silicon
manufacturers.
NComm TMS™ is designed to be portable to any operating
system of your choice. Pre-defined ports to industry popular real time
operating systems such as VxWorks, pSOS and Nucleus Plus are standard with each
NComm TMS™ suite.
About
Telect, Inc.
Telect provides total connectivity product solutions around the world. The company designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic connectivity products, copper connectivity solutions, access products, and power distribution and protection systems. The company sells worldwide through direct channels, distribution, OEM partners, and business-to-business on several e-commerce sites.
Telect’s products support large global Fortune 500 wireless and transmission product companies. Primary markets include the Internet, Wireless systems, CLECs, ILECs, CATV, government, education, and enterprise networks. For more information, visit Telect’s web site at www.telect.com .
About
NComm
NComm
Incorporated, founded in 1996, is a privately held company based in Salem, New
Hampshire. NComm’s mission is to reduce their client’s time-to-market through
turnkey telecommunications software offerings and custom engineering. Software
offerings include both NComm TMS™, a communications trunk management software
suite in which customers obtain software and its source code to embed into
their own equipment, and Altera® Megafunctions software. Additional offerings
include NComm TMS™ Development Platforms. These further accelerant new product
design and custom engineering services encompassing a wide range of
communications expertise. NComm customers range from start-up to
well-established communications companies. For more information, please visit
the NComm website at www.ncomm.com .
Contacts:
NComm, Inc.
John S. Brandte
Vice President of
Marketing & Business Development
Tel: 603-893-6186 ext 60
Email: jsb@ncomm.com
Telect, Inc.
Dana Anderson
Director, Corporate
Communications
Phone: 509- 921-7204
E-mail: danderson@telect.com