FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Communications equipment makers quickly add high-speed
Wide Area Network (WAN) interfaces to network and customer premise systems
SALEM, NH – September 10, 2002 – NComm, Inc. and Dallas Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ:MXIM), today announced a complete hardware/software solution for T3/E3 WAN interfaces. The joint solution provides communications equipment developers with a turnkey product for adding T3 and/or E3 transmission interface capabilities to telecommunications and data communications platforms. It enables the equipment maker to quickly add functionality to its systems with proven, standards-compliant WAN interfaces without the cost and risk associated with in-house Layer 1 engineering development. With common hardware and multifunctional software for both T3 and E3, for the first time a single product can have access to the worldwide market, achieving significant economies in development, manufacturing and inventory expense.
“The communications equipment market has never been more competitive than it is today, and vendors are seeking to concentrate on their core competency and differentiators. At the same time, companies are seeking new revenue sources in the international markets. The joint Dallas/NComm solution enables them to take advantage of the new market opportunities, and remain focused on their core technology, by providing a turnkey and risk-free solution for both T3 and E3 transport interfaces. And it is all obtained with the best possible economics,” said John Brandte, vice president of business development for NComm, Inc.
T3/E3 is attractive to carriers as a high-speed transport choice because it carries both voice and data traffic, aggregates the popular T1/E1 transports with technical ease, and fits well with legacy- as well as packet-based technologies. It can be either channelized or unchannelized, giving the retail carrier the option to address both the mid-size and large business markets economically.
“With E3’s rising demand in the South American and Asia/Pacific markets, equipment vendors are finding new market opportunities that require their platforms to interface with E3 networks,” said Mike Smith, Managing Director, Communications Business Unit of Dallas Semiconductor. “Dallas Semiconductor’s best-in-class WAN framer products together with NComm’s proven management software let them capitalize on that market opportunity by providing a complete solution for adding the T3, E3 or combined T3/E3 interfaces to voice and data platforms.”
Pricing for the Dallas Semiconductor DS3112 T3/E3 Framer starts at $71.56 (resale, 1000 pieces, FOB USA). Pricing for the NComm T3/E3 software license starts at $20,000.
Dan Tuck, Chief Technology Officer at Paragon Networks said, “Paragon
Networks chose the NComm/Dallas solution as a way to more quickly add T3/E3
functionality to our products. Time to
market is critical to our continued success and leveraging off the shelf
technology where possible decreases our development time and costs. It also allows us to focus our internal
development resources on features and functionality that are unique to our
products and market. We are pleased with
the completeness and standards compliant results of integrating the
Ncomm/Dallas technology into our products.”
NComm’s Trunk Management Software (TMSÔ) portfolio of products includes T1, E1, T3,
E3 and SONET technologies and soon will include SDH. Portable to any operating system, NComm provides its TMS
customers with a fully functional device driver to interface with any industry
standard framer.
About NComm
NComm provides network equipment vendors with
proven, standards-compliant Wide Area Networking (WAN) source code, software,
and custom engineering. Its TMS trunk management suite enables faster time-to-market for network
systems by reducing the development time for WAN interfaces from months to
hours. The suite includes the turnkey
software and source code to embed into WAN equipment, which performs all the
framer, alarming, performance monitoring, line testing, and signaling functions
that all WAN devices or products must have to operate. NComm, privately held
and based in Salem, Hew Hampshire, has customers ranging from start-ups to
well-established communications companies such as ADC (NasdaqNM:ADCT), Nortel
(NYSE:NT), and Sonus (NasdaqNM:SONS). For more information, please visit the
NComm website at www.ncomm.com.
About Dallas Semiconductor
Dallas Semiconductor offers a complete line of communication products that fulfill the demands of the rapidly growing telecommunications world. Dallas/Maxim’s state-of-the-art products pack density, versatility and performance in a small package. These devices provide highly integrated solutions for applications including T- and E-carrier, broadband, wireless base stations, optical and copper Internet infrastructure, DSL access equipment, voice-over-IP and a wide variety of other high-speed applications around the world. Dallas/Maxim T/E Carrier products include high performance line interface units (LIUs), multi-port framers, and high-density single chip transceivers (SCTs). For more information, please visit the Dallas/Maxim website at www.maxim-ic.com/telecom.
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Contact:
Matt Burke
Ncomm, Inc.
(603) 315-0618
Rudi Chakrabarty
Dallas
Semiconductor
(972) 371 - 6985