ADAX CONTRIBUTES IN ACCELERATING THE ADOPTION OF OPEN, STANDARDS-BASED COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORMS

Adax Joins CP-TA

3rd October 2007, Reading, UK - Adax Europe Ltd, an industry leader in high-performance converging network solutions, has today announced that they have joined the Communications Platform Trade Association (CP-TA). The scope of the CP-TA is to address specifications at the application interface layer and below. Initially, CP-TA is focused on defining and managing interoperability testing for AdvancedTCA, and will also address hardware, the Intelligent Platform Management Interface and the Service Availability Forum's Hardware Platform Interface.

In recent years, the communications platforms industry has developed a rich set of open specifications in order to build modular communications platforms. However, the number of optional requirements and inconsistent interpretations of mandatory requirements has prevented the industry from moving to the next level of interoperability. CP-TA’s mission is to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms by certifying interoperable products.

“CP-TA defines the requirements of interoperability between various Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) ensuring tested platforms based on ATCA, AMC and Micro-TCA. It solidifies the partnerships amongst the ecosystem members and introduces Carrier-Grade Base Platforms,” comments Michael Khoury, Director of Business Development. “CP-TA enables Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and systems integrators faster time-to-market at lower COTS solutions. Ultimately, CP-TA will benefit carriers and service providers with new services at lower cost of integration while providing alternative solutions” continues Khoury.

Adax is committed to delivering application ready products that assist customers in delivering new services quickly while reducing capital and operational expenditure. In addition to working with numerous industry/standard bodies, Adax has formed a number of strategic partnerships with leading software and platform vendors. By combining its skills with the expertise of each partner company, Adax offers its customers the benefits of superior solution performance, pre-integration and testing. The partnerships that Adax has formed facilitate a faster time to market and assist the rapid roll out of new services via pre-integrated, highly flexible network components.

For more information on CP-TA please visit www.cp-ta.org

About Adax
Specializing in signaling infrastructure and converging networks for over 25 years, Adax offers a complete set of protocol controllers, integrated software and signaling gateways that provide world-class solutions for today’s telecommunications networks. Adax high- performance products are available for SS7, ATM and IP protocols for PSTN, GPRS, 3G and IMS networks.

Adax solutions deliver the high performance, total scalability, fast time to market and rapid return on investment that are essential for telecom companies to stay ahead in a competitive and ever-changing industry. Adax customers include some of the world’s premier telecom equipment manufacturers, value added services (VAS) providers, systems integrators and telecom test and monitoring organisations such as Alcatel-Lucent, Apertio, Bharti Telesoft, IP Access, Motorola, Siemens and NetHawk.

For more information, please visit www.adax.com

About the Communications Platforms Trade Association
The Communications Platforms Trade Association is a global organization of communications platform and building block providers whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of SIG-governed, open specification-based communication platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks. For more information about CP-TA, visit www.cp-ta.org