TOLLBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES TARGETS NEXT-GENERATION CARRIERS WITH ENHANCEMENTS TO ITS VOICE GATEWAY SYSTEM
New Features such as System Redundancy, Load Monitoring, Dynamic Load Balancing, Hot Swapping, Remote Maintenance, and Enhanced GR-303 Capabilities Improve Performancehoteles en BratislavaSANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 24, 2000 - TollBridge Technologies, the leading developer of high-quality voice-over-broadband solutions for a new generation of carriers, today announced Release 1.3 of its Voice Gateway system software. Release 1.3 contains a host of powerful new carrier-class features, including system redundancy, load monitoring, dynamic load balancing, hot swapping, remote maintenance, and enhanced GR-303 capabilities. These critical features enable Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) to simply and effectively manage, upgrade, and load-balance voice and data networks based on TollBridge's carrier-class TB200 Local Exchange Gateway and TB50 Integrated Access Devices (IADs). TollBridge systems that support thousands of phone lines are already deployed in multiple cities across the U.S. "Carrier-class reliability and non-stop operation-the familiar 99.999 percent availability, 24x7-are key factors in the easy acceptance and rapid deployment of new voice technologies," said Agnes Imregh, TollBridge's vice president of marketing. "Carriers are increasingly demanding that new voice access systems exhibit the same availability and serviceability characteristics of traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) systems. Release 1.3 allows carriers to deploy and manage on a large scale the integrated voice and data services they sell to lucrative business customer segment of the market." Important New Features
Release 1.3 of the TollBridge system software provides a number of important new features: - System Redundancy
Upon detecting a faulty logic module, the TollBridge system can now automatically and instantly re-allocate the module's functions to a "hot" spare module that is already running and ready for use. This logic hot-swapping does not incur the downtime that hot-swapping system components does.
- Carrier-Class Architecture
TollBridge employs a scalable architecture that separates control, management, and bearer planes in the TB200, thus allowing for fault isolation. The architecture also allows for deterministic system performance, which ensures consistent performance for all calls-whether the first, the hundredth, or the thousandth simultaneous call-as long as the call load is below the capacity of the system. Such performance is achieved through the use of non-blocking packet and Time Division Multiplex (TDM) switch fabrics within the Gateway. luxury citycenter hotels NaxosIn a shared-bus architecture, the control, management, and bearer planes all contend for a shared resource like a Peripheral Component Interface (PCI) bus. While this architecture may be suitable for a general computing (PC) environment, it does not possess the reliability and scalability required by voice carriers and can lead to unacceptable delay in voice calls.
- Load Monitoring and Dynamic Load Balancing
These new features will allow the operator to monitor call load and dynamically balance this load across system components.
- Leipzig cheap hotelsEnhanced GR-303 and T1 Capabilities
Release 1.3 provides expanded GR-303 management and T1 line control and configuration features. The network manager can select one of four pre-programmed switch configurations simply by specifying the switch type on the TB200 management screen. The TB200 then automatically configures the switch-it does not need to be configured manually. Switch types supported include the 5ESS from Lucent, the DMS100/500 from Nortel, the EWSD from Siemens, and the GDT5 from AGCS. The network manager can also control T1 line parameters such as framing, line coding, and line attenuation from a simple management interface.
- Remote Serviceability of TB50 IADs
Powerful new features in Release 1.3 allow the network manager to control automated remote batch upgrade, service, and control of up to thousands of TB50 IADs from the TB200, eliminating costly truck-rolls to customer premises.
With these new features, carriers can now deploy TollBridge-powered voice networks with true carrier-class Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability features. Carriers can focus on enhanced voice and data features - the things they do best-and treat the TollBridge voice network as a transparent, scalable, powerful, and self-healing vehicle over which to deliver these services.About TollBridge Solutions
Designed to let providers bypass Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) to all deliver voice services over any broadband access technology, the TollBridge product set consists of three elements: - The TB50, an Integrated Access Device (IAD) that converts voice samples from multiple calls into packets and prioritizes voice and data traffic for transmission over any broadband access network;
- The TB200, a carrier-grade Local Exchange Gateway that translates packets back into voice and connects to Class 5 switches using the Telcordia GR-303 protocol and new, emerging protocols such as the Segment Interface protocol (SIP) and Media Gateway Control Point (MGCP);
- The TollViewTMhotels Granada Management Suite, a management system that includes a graphical Element Management System (EMS) for end-to-end configuration, troubleshooting, and performance management of up to 100 TB200 systems from HP OpenViewTM on SUN SolarisTM platforms.
About TollBridge Technologies
Founded in March 1998 and located in Santa Clara, Calif., TollBridge Technologies is the leading provider of voice-over-broadband solutions to a new generation of carriers. TollBridge solutions change the economics of delivering voice services by allowing carriers that own Class 5 switches to use broadband access technologies, such as DSL or cable, to bypass the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and deliver toll-quality voice and integrated data services. TollBridge and TollVoiceTM are trademarks of TollBridge Technologies, Inc. All other service marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
