Product category:
Networking Hardware
News Release from: Adax Europe | Subject: ATM cards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2004
Network processor powers wireless
applications
Adax has used Mindspeed's Edge Stream Processor and EdgeMaker firmware for its ATM signalling cards currently shipping and deployed in next-generation wireless telecomms equipment.
Adax has used Mindspeed's Edge Stream Processor (ESP) and EdgeMaker firmware for its ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) signalling cards currently shipping and deployed in next-generation wireless telecomms equipment "We are pleased that Adax has chosen to use our Edge Stream processors in its wireless networking applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The flexibility and performance of our ESP products make them ideal for next-generation wireless communications", said Preet Virk, Director of Marketing for Mindspeed's Broadband Internetworking Systems Business Unit.
Adax products are designed to meet the demanding signalling requirements found in complex telecommunications environments.
Based on open systems standards and a common applications programming interface (API), they provide the modular building blocks that can be easily customised.
Adax solutions enable customers to deploy their signalling applications efficiently, irrespective of the underlying network interface or architecture.
"Mindspeed's ESP processor and firmware combination enable us to provide a superior signalling solution that has all the options available on one board, requires minimal programming and is transparent to the user", commented Barry Zuckerman, PhD, President of Adax.
"The ESP also enables us to meet the increased performance requirements of next-generation wireless networks".
Mindspeed's ESP is a network-optimised processor that combines reduced instruction set computing (RISC) with the benefits of a complex instruction set provided by a specialised communications processor.
The EdgeMaker firmware addresses "any-service/any-port" applications and provides internetworking between packet-, cell- and circuit-based networks, communicating with other system components through the interfaces of the ESP.
The ESP processor (CX2751X) and EdgeMaker firmware allow the Adax ATM card maximum flexibility in both protocol and interface options.
Interfaces include broadband SS7, Sigtran and frame relay across T1/E1, OC3 and Ethernet.
Protocol options include broadband SS7 over ATM AAL2 or AAL5; classical IP over ATM; 3G Iur, Iub, IuCS and IuPS interfaces; frame relay; IP over frame relay and LAPD over frame relay.
The result is a universal card and a single platform that is capable of supporting multiple wireless services at speeds up to 155Mbit/s.
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