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The Adax products are used to build Serving GPRS Support Nodes (SGSN), Gateway GPRS Support Nodes (GGSN), Mobile Switching Centers (MSC) and Base Station Systems (BSS) for GPRS networks. The Adax signaling solutions deliver the high performance, total scalability and rapid time to market benefits that are essential for OEMs and Operators to stay ahead in a competitive and ever changing industry.

To meet the demanding signaling requirements for GPRS networks, communications controllers need to provide high volume Frame Relay over T1/E1 and OC3/STM-1 interfaces, and simultaneous Frame Relay and 64k/HSL (High Speed Links) SS7 MTP2 over T1/E1 and Ethernet.

Adax have modular products with comprehensive and superior design, consistent APIs and ease of use, and all the requirements for GPRS can be met with the Adax High Density Channelized (HDC) Controller. The HDC has the ability to run up to 128 channels of multiple protocols over four T1/E1 interfaces or two Ethernet interfaces. Protocol support includes SS7 (64k and 2Mb), Frame Relay, SCTP, X.25 and LAPB/D/V5. The HDC is available in PCI, cPCI and PMC formats, and across many operating systems, for maximum flexibility in platform choice. The efficiency of the Adax cards ensure that minimal burden is taken off the host CPU, leaving most of the system available for running GPRS applications.

Alternatively, where the SS7 protocol is not needed such as for the Gb interface, the Adax ACT card provides a high density, yet cost effective solution for running protocols such as LAPB/D and Frame Relay in GPRS networks. The ACT card provides access to all DSO's on an E1 or T1 trunk, and with 4 or 8 T1/E1 interfaces per card, it can provide up to 2,048 DSO's across multiple cards on a single platform.

Adax has solutions for the major components in GPRS infrastructure, within the SGSN, GGSN, MSC and BSS.