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Adax's HDC-PCI Combo board provides PCI solution with Ethernet and T1/E1 ports

No need for expensive rack-mounted infrastructure with use of PCI form factor

Reading, England, 20 May 2003: Adax, the industry leader in high performance communications and signaling infrastructure, today announced the release of a major update to the PCI version of its HDC signaling protocol controller. The new HDC-PCI Combo board offers a powerful high-density solution for wireless, wireline and converging PSTN/IP network platforms. Customers wishing to develop gateways or needing to interface to IP networks cost-effectively can do so without the need for racks and cPCI form factors. A PCI-based system, incorporating Adax’s HDC-PCI Combo board, enables solutions to be brought to market that much more quickly and cheaply in comparison.

The New HDC-PCI Combo provides T1/E1 and Ethernet connections directly on the board, eliminating the need for an additional daughter card, and the PCI form-factor enables cost-effective use in PCI-based systems. 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 utilise the company’s 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 for the HDC card, giving maximum options in building next-generation networks.

The Adax HDC-PCI Combo card is a high performance, high density, multiple protocol, channelised controller that supports both traditional SS7 and SIGTRAN protocols for SS7 over IP. It is available in two versions; either with 4 T1/E1 interfaces or 2 T1/E1's and 2 Ethernet ports. This makes it the ideal card for signaling gateways, being able to interface to 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 nodes 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 64k and 2Mb HSL signaling , SCTP, LAPB/D/F, LAPV5, X.25, Frame Relay or HDLC. Multiple HDC cards can be installed together to provide a totally scaleable, flexible and cost effective solution.