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News Release from: Performance Technologies | Subject: SEGway link replacement devices
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 October 2003
Link replacement devices boost mobile
coverage
Rural Cellular Corp is using SEGway link replacement devices to enable lower-cost mobile communications in remote areas around the USA.
Rural Cellular Corp is using Performance Technologies SEGway link replacement devices to enable lower-cost mobile communications in remote areas around the USA Rural Cellular serves remote areas where tourism, agriculture and small businesses are prevalent
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Because such areas are not densely populated, they often are not equipped with standard telecommunications infrastructure equipment.
In an effort to install the necessary equipment in a cost-effective manner, Rural Cellular is using Performance Technologies' SEGway link replacement devices to send SS7 messages - critical to mobile communications - over shared-use IP networks.
"Performance Technologies' SEGway devices will help us to bring mobile communications to locations across the country where it would otherwise not be possible", said Ann Newhall, Chief Operating Officer of Rural Cellular.
"The cost savings involved with using these devices will enable us to expand our business and improve the services we offer our customers".
Performance Technologies' SEGway SS7 over IP products reliably transport and route SS7 messages over lower-cost IP networks.
The Internet Engineering Task Force Signalling Transport group's (IETF SIGTRAN) Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is used to ensure the messages are sent as reliably over IP networks as they are over the traditional public-switched telephone network (PSTN).
"Rural Cellular is a perfect example of a company who can truly benefit from our SEGway devices", said Jason Lawlor, Product Manager for Performance Technologies.
"These devices are extending the reach of mobile communications domestically and worldwide".
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