Data Connection Announces DC-MetaSwitch Multiservice Switching Software

 Data Connection Announces DC-MetaSwitch Multiservice Switching Software 

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 1999--

 DC-MetaSwitch provides OEMs with scalable fault-tolerant multiservice switching source code for carrier-class ATM, SS7 and VoIP products

 Data Connection Limited (DCL) today announced its DC-MetaSwitch multiservice switching software product, which provides interworking call control, signalling and media gateway control, and back-end addressing, routing, billing and management services, integrated seamlessly over its ATM, SS7 and VoIP portable communications products.

 DC-MetaSwitch, together with the ATM, SS7 and VoIP portable communications products, provides OEMs with a highly scalable and fault tolerant source code solution for use in a range of devices from carrier class multiservice backbone switches, to IP telephony gateways and access switches, through to enterprise IP telephony gateways ("internet PBXs"). DC-MetaSwitch runs within DCL's existing portable, non-blocking, message passing execution environment, which facilitates flexible distribution of protocol components across a wide range of hardware configurations from DSPs to line cards to specialised signalling processors. Combined with DCL's High Availability Framework, this provides the performance, scalability and reliability required for the most demanding multi-protocol applications.

 "This really helps our customers deliver" said Mike Evans, Director of DCL's Internet Telephony business unit. "We've always majored on delivering high function and high quality portable communications stacks. DC-MetaSwitch significantly eases our OEMs' porting and integration task, by providing all the multi-protocol switching, signalling and media handling, together with a very high level of back-end service provision - all within the same scalable and reliable portable execution environment. The net effect is that there's significantly less code to develop - and our customers get to market quicker."

 "True scalability and high availability is a fundamental requirement in today's networks" said Colin Dancer, Director of DCL's Telecoms business unit. "DC-MetaSwitch and the new High Availability Framework require minimal integration work to produce a high-end, scalable, fault tolerant system, which can be readily deployed in carrier class backbone and edge devices."

 DC-MetaSwitch integrates seamlessly with DCL's portable communications products.

 -- ATM: UNI, ILMI, multi-hierarchy PNNI, LANE (v1/v2), MPOA, Classical IP over ATM, Call Control, PVC and Soft PVC - see http://www.datcon.co.uk/ATM/atmidx.htm

 -- SS7: ISUP, B-ISUP, MTP3, TCAP, SCCP, SAAL - see http://www.datcon.co.uk/ss7/ss7idx.htm

 -- VoIP: H.323, video/audio media stream handlers and multi-party call control - see http://www.datcon.co.uk/conf/h323.htm.

 DCL's communications products have been ported to a large number of operating systems including VxWorks, pSOS, Chorus, Nucleus, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT and other proprietary operating systems. They have also been used on all common processors including i960, Motorola 860, PowerPC, Sparc, IDT and MIPS. Proprietary operating systems and chipsets can be supported with minimal effort.

 About Data Connection Limited

 Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of ATM, Conferencing, Internet Telephony, Messaging and Directory, SNA and SS7 portable products. Customers include 3Com, Cabletron, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM Corp., Microsoft, Nortel Networks, NCR, Silicon Graphics and Sun. Data Connection is headquartered in London UK, with US offices in Virginia. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held. During each of the past 18 years its profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year sales exceeded $26M, of which 90% were overseas, mostly in the US.

 For information, contact Tony Downes at td@datcon.co.uk, phone +44 181 366 1177 or visit our Web site at http://www.datcon.co.uk/

 Data Connection is a trademark of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.