Adax Announces SS7 Power for Sun’s Netra 1800 Fault Tolerant Telecommunications Server

Wide Area Communications specialist Adax Europe today announced the availability of it’s Common Channel signaling SS7 products for Sun’s Netra ft (fault tolerant) 1800 servers. Adax’s SS7 PCI controller boards combined with Sun’s ft, carrier grade Netra ft 1800 server deliver increased bandwidth and minimal CPU utilisation for telecommunications applications. In addition, Adax’s ANC-TCX daughter cards can now be used to bring T1/E1 functionality straight to the Netra ft 1800.

Adax and Sun provide sophisticated solutions for the telecommunications industry that have proved successful for both network equipment providers and telecommunications carriers. “Integrating our products on Sun’s ft 1800 server strengthens Adax’s ability to deliver high performance architectures to our customers world wide,“ said Robin Kent, Director of Operations for Adax Europe.

“We believe Adax's products are well-suited for the Netra ft 1800 server. The telecommunications industry demands a server that can offer carrier-grade reliability and scalability, along with fault-tolerance for continuous computing,” said James Hole, Product Marketing Manager for Sun Microsystems. “Adax’s line of high availability products easily integrate with the ft 1800 server. This allows network service providers to develop and deploy services on a common SPARC/Solaris Operating environment platform, including the ft 1800 which greatly minimises time-to-market.”