EANTC selects Adax for comprehensive Voice over Broadband emulator

Costs to verify Broadband Loop Emulation Services (BLES) and V5.x voice gateways greatly reduced

Costs to verify Broadband Loop Emulation Services (PRWEB) February 21, 2003

3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France, 19 February 2003: Adax, the industry leader in high performance communications and signaling infrastructure, has been chosen by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) to provide the foundation for its Voice over Broadband (VoB) emulator. The emulator from EANTC, a leading European provider of test and certification services, allows vendors and users of voice gateways to verify standards compliance and performance of access devices without incurring the cost of a large test bed. In addition, further savings are made because the emulated Integrated Access Devices (IADs) are managed by one common user interface, greatly reducing testing time.

Adaxs ACT4-PCI communications card provides the network interface and V5.x link layer software for the VoB emulator. With this solid foundation, the emulator is able to monitor a high signalling load and simulate both IADs and Local Exchanges (LEs) in a fully integrated, highly intuitive test environment. Adaxs ACT4-PCI card provided EANTC with an easy to implement and cost-effective solution.

The VoB emulator verifies Voice over DSL networks and gateways. Features include the test of signaling protocol behaviour and speech quality, as well as bulk call generation to verify robustness. The unique full emulation of hundreds of IADs and the LE enables customers to test scenarios that would otherwise be impossible or extremely expensive to implement. This powerful and flexible test tool is aimed at manufacturers of network components and network operators.

Voice over DSL network emulation for IADs and LEs is important for both vendors and users of voice gateways," said Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director Research & Manufacturer Testing, EANTC. Adaxs cost-effective, high-performance, ACT board was crucial in enabling us to bring the VoB emulator to market rapidly providing us, and our customers, with a commercial advantage. The high port density enables our customers to test full 16-link V5.2 interfaces."

EANTC's design team integrated our ACT board into the VoB emulator quickly and easily," commented Robin Kent, Director of European Operations, Adax. This powerful tool is going to really help people with testing Voice over DSL Networks and Gateways, and we look forward to enhancing it further with EANTC."

The ACT4-PCI is a four port fully channelised HDLC board, with high-impedance ports for non-intrusive passive network monitoring and one of the highest port densities in the industry. The ACT card can handle multiple protocols including X.25, frame relay, LAPB, LAPD, HDLC and LAPV5, providing up to 1024 DSOs and increasing cell capacity in a single system. This powerful functionality makes the ACT card especially well-suited to the emulator in terms of performance and features but it is also a cost-effective solution, a factor that was very important to EANTC.

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About Adax Europe Ltd
Adax is the industry leader in high performance communications and signaling infrastructure, providing communications controllers and protocol software for existing and next generation networks. Built to meet the demanding signaling needs of packet and circuit switched networks, the Adax products are used for: Signaling and Media Gateways; Gateway and Serving GPRS Support Nodes (GGSNs and SGSNs); Base Station Systems (BSS) for GPRS networks, SGSNs, Node B and Radio Network Controllers (RNCs) for 3G networks, and Billing and Monitoring Applications.

Adaxs product set is based on open systems standards, modular design and a common Application Program Interface (API). This enables the world's leading communications companies, including Lucent, Nortel, Ericsson, Alcatel, Siemens, Hughes Software Systems and systems integrators to quickly and efficiently build communications solutions for network convergence. For more information, visit www.adax.com

About EANTC
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) has more than ten years of experience in developing conformance and performance test suites. EANTCs areas of expertise include the testing of Voice over ATM, Voice over IP, IP routing, ATM and MPLS networks. EANTC is a leading provider of test services and certification for manufacturers, carriers and large enterprises worldwide. For more information, visit www.eantc.com

For further information please contact:
Harriet Aiton
Adax Europe Ltd, Reada Court, Vachel Road, Reading RG1 1NY
Tel: +44 (0)118 952 2803
Email: harriet.aiton@adax.co.uk

Press contact:
Matt Wilson
EML, The Albany Boathouse, Lower Ham Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 5BB
Tel: +44 (0)20 8408 8000
Email: mattw@eml.com

Carsten Rossenhoevel
EANTC AG, Einsteinufer 17, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 30 3180595-0
Email: cross@eantc.com

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