Aculabs GroomerII with increased resilience

See Aculab at Communicasia 18th - 21st June 2002, stand number 6H2-01

See Aculab at Communicasia 18th - 21st June 2002, stand number 6H2-01

Milton Keynes, UK, Munich, Germany, Melbourne, Australia and Panama City, USA - At CommunicAsia, Aculab will present GroomerII, which offers a powerful and flexible means of providing interconnection between incompatible networks around the world.

It harnesses the power of Aculabs expertise to provide a single, flexible connection solution that is used to extend the capability of existing infrastructure, reduce cost and generate revenue.

Because uptime and availability is critical in this environment, GroomerII now offers increased resilience with the added benefit of redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) functionality that performs all writes to two drives as a method of achieving absolute redundancy.

Simple network management protocol (SNMP) support is also available with GroomerII so that fault status information can be reported to a remote network management system. This ensures that a potentially service affecting problem can be dealt with in a timely, effective manner.

Network operators, service providers, alternate carriers and switching equipment vendors, as well as systems integrators, all need to support protocol conversion and complex call routing between a variety of otherwise incompatible network interfaces. GroomerII is a flexible switching engine that can be readily customised for a variety of such application requirements.

GroomerII is typically deployed between private networks/PBX/ACD switches and public networks with disparate interfaces as well as being a low cost switch replacement. It may also be used within a telco network. GroomerII can be deployed as new mobile switching platforms are added, or by an application service provider (ASP) to bypass the congested local access network with direct SS7 connection.

Based on Aculabs highly successful E1 and T1 digital network access cards in PCI form factor GroomerII is a scalable solution enabling interconnection between any combination of SS7, common channel signalling (CCS e.g. Q.931) and channel associated signalling (CAS), including MF, DTMF and MFC and R2 derivatives.

Due to the flexibility of the routing and switching, GroomerII also provides solutions in a range of diverse applications including:

·   Connecting A-law and m-law networks
·   Flexible call routing with least cost and alternate route creation
·   Number translation with number based routing creating a dynamic routing system
·   Multi-port concentration where multiple incoming channels can be fed to a consolidated onward route
·   Call data records used to bill customers and monitor system usage.

Notes to Editors

About Aculab
Through a customer-focused approach to development, Aculab has produced the best-of-its-class computer telephony (CT) product portfolio that satisfies the speech resource and global digital connectivity requirements of developers and system integrators. CT applications utilising Aculabs components can handle real-time telephony, through an extensive range of resources and signalling systems.

The evolution of Aculabs generic API, to provide a consistent programming interface, reduces the integration time of a combination of technologies including text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR), conferencing and fax. Collectively through supporting a broad range of industry standards and operating systems, Aculab can provide the products needed when quality and performance cannot be compromised.

Aculabs head office is located in Milton Keynes, UK with offices in North America, Germany and Australia.
Website: www.aculab.com

For further information please contact:
Katie Chaplin
Aculab
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 273897
Email: Katie.chaplin@aculab.com
   
Tracey Williams
TWPR
Telephone: +44 (0) 1225 723237
Email: twpr@compuserve.com

If you require a photograph of GroomerII please email: mailto:katie.chaplin@aculab.com

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