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ADAX ANNOUNCES BLADE ATMII-PMC

Single board environment offers signaling flexibility and greater choice

ATLANTA, GA - June 2, 2003: Adax, Inc., the industry leader in high-performance communications and signaling infrastructure, announced at Supercomm in Atlanta today the release of an ATMII-PMC on a SBC (Single Board Computer.) This highly-scalable 3G blade gives network equipment providers faster time to market because it is a flexible and cost-effective solution that provides broadband signaling protocols on a single hardware blade. The ATMII-PMC Blade design, for Node B, RNC, SGSN and MSC applications, is available now.

With the immediate availability of SSCF/SSCOP software for AAL5 and SSSAR/SSTED software for AAL2 on a single board, the hardware and software package make this solution ideal for ATM Transport and Control Plane or IP Transport and Control Planes for 3GPP R5/R6.

Supporting both ATM and HDLC protocols in one solution, the new ATMII-PMC blade gives customers the opportunity to choose between kernel UNIX or Hardware blade implementation, and they can now also choose their 3G node implementation (RNC, Node B, SGSN or HDLC for 3GPP N5, 6). With this release, Adax makes the protocols available in a user-programmable signaling blade environment. This blade product supports both SSCOP/SSCF and SCTP for broadband ATM or IP signaling over either OC3/STM-1 or Ethernet. With support for AAL2 in addition to AAL5 on the blade, Adax also provides ATM transport for the Iub interface connecting the RNC to Node B at the network edge.

“Adax has a long history of providing technology for wireless signaling ,” said Dr. Barry Zuckerman, president and CEO of Adax Inc. “It has always been first and foremost in the minds of our engineering team to deliver solutions that help our customers stay ahead,” he added. “What is essential to them right now is high performance, total scalability, flexibility in the face of changing 3G standards, and, most important of all, a fast time to market with a rapid return on investment. With the release of this blade, we’re able to provide what they need, at the time they most need it.”