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ADAX Announces HDC-PCI Combo Board

New solution provides PCI with Ethernet and T1/E1 ports

Berkeley, CA May 20, 2003: Adax, Inc., the industry leader in high-performance communications and signaling infrastructure, today announced the release of a new HDC-PCI Combo Board, which is a major update to the PCI version of its HDC signaling protocol controller. Offering a powerful high-density solution for wireless, wireline and converging PSTN/IP network platforms, customers can now cost-effectively develop gateways or interfaces to IP networks without the need for racks and cPCI form factors. Using a PCI-based system, and incorporating Adax's HDC-PCI Combo board, customers can now bring solutions to market much more quickly, while realizing cost savings never before possible.

The new HDC-PCI Combo provides T1/E1 and Ethernet connections directly on the board, eliminating the need for an additional daughter card. In response to market demand for more integrated systems, Adax has met this need by adding Ethernet capabilities to a single card. This enables developers to use the Adax high-performance HDC cards for gateway-type solutions on PCI platforms, such as Linux-based PCs or Sun SPARC workstations. This is in addition to cPCI and PMC formats currently available for the HDC card, giving developers even more options in the creation of next-generation networks.

The Adax HDC-PCI Combo card is a high performance, high density, multiple protocol, channelized controller that supports both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols for SS7 over IP. It is available in two versions; either with 4 TI/E1 interfaces, or 2 T1/E1s and 2 Ethernet ports. This makes it the ideal card for signaling gateways, being able to interface with traditional/legacy/PSTN networks and IP Networks, with narrowband SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols, respectively. Other application areas include Media Gateway Controllers; SGSN and GGSNs, MSC and BSS notes in GPRS networks, and SMS off-loads, to name but a few.

The HDC is dynamically configurable, and is capable of delivering a combination of up to 128 channels of SS7 MTP-2 64Kbps and 2Mbps HSL signaling , SCTP, LAPB/D/F, LAPV5, Frame Relay or HDLC. Multiple HDC cards can be installed together to provide a totally scalable, flexible and cost-effective solution.