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| Adax Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Adax is marking its 25th anniversary this year by launching 10 new boards during 2007. This record number of product releases is being driven by the emergence of IMS and ATCA as the technologies of choice for developing next generation networks. These 10 boards expand Adax's reach beyond its original foundation in signaling, to include a new 8 trunk HDCIII for SS7 and ATM, the clear channel and channelised ATMIV for ATM-IP interworking, and the SDCIII for SCTP, IPsec and general/other IP signaling protocol acceleration. In 1982, President and CEO Dr. Barry Zuckerman founded Adax as a small start-up. At the time, Adax was selling X.25 data communications solutions to Unisys, and the OEM arrangement required Adax to supply TCP/IP for the Defense Department's Data Network. Since then, Adax's product line has evolved along with the networks, expanding from a focus on packet networks and narrowband SS7 to GPRS, 3G, SS7/IP convergence, and IMS security and signaling. Over the past 25 years, Adax has provided high-performance SS7, ATM, and IP communications controllers, software, and signaling gateways to the world's leading TEMs. Although Adax is best known for signaling, the emergence of ATCA and IMS has driven the company to develop new boards with functionality far beyond its original foundation. Beginning with the release of the HDCII-AMC at Globalcomm 2006, Adax has launched four AMC cards to support SS7, SIGTRAN, ATM, and IP protocols, including the ATMIII, SDCIII, and HDCIII, with additional cards scheduled for release this year. ATCA was developed to eliminate the high costs and slow time to market associated with traditional proprietary platforms. Telecom companies have been developing commercial off the shelf (COTS) strategies for network equipment as a more efficient and cost effective means of bringing products to market quickly. ATCA helps to address these requirements by providing the foundations for a flexible, scalable, high performance architecture. It can help to lower CAPEX and OPEX by reducing the time to market for new services, and by significantly lowering development costs. This is a key consideration when factoring in the costs associated with a constantly evolving network. One of the most compelling examples of ATCA's benefits is its role in facilitating IMS. IMS is centered on the flexibility to enable operators to provide customers with the very latest revenue generating IP-based services. The open standards-based architecture of ATCA can be used to facilitate this requirement by enabling telecom companies to reuse the foundation of their products. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |