New Products - News Briefs - Product Announcement

Communications News, Nov, 1999

Optical networking

LIGHT-POLARIZATION PROCESSING and liquid-crystal technologies increase the capacity and reduce the cost of optical networks. Chorum Technologies, Inc. has developed its PolarWave line of products comprised of optical slicers (pictured), DWDM routers, optical switches, optical processors, and integrated optical systems. Slicers perform advanced optical filtering, called interleave filtering. By using optical slicers in long-haul DWDM networks, users can transmit terabits of information on a single fiber. Chorum's DWDM routers build modular, passive optical multiplexing and demultiplexing systems that support hundreds of channels at data rates of 10 Gbps and higher. These integrated optical systems combine switching, filtering, and processing technologies for advanced applications, such as optical add/ drop multiplexing or optical cross-connects.--Chorum Technologies, Inc.

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Service-level management

MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE OF IP network and application services from the perspective of an end user. Inverse Network Technology, Inc. has released Version 4.2 of IP InSight, which improves the ability of customer-care center and network-operations personnel to solve end-user access problems and measure network performance. The IP InSight Dial Care application facilitates a help desk's primary goal--to address remote users' problems. Recent trends in the POP infrastructure are analyzed for call history and display of the aggregated call failure rates (CFR) for each of the POPs the user has recently dialed, indicating the major failure causes. IP InSight has the capacity to automatically sense needed upgrades, including the automatic deployment of HTTP proxies, for supporting user communities in secure LAN environments. Inverse's product has improved alerting features, such as the ability to generate alerts when key application services (for example, DNS, HTTP, and ping) cross performance thresholds.--Inverse Network Technology, Inc.

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Satellite messenger

SEND HIGH-SPEED DATA (HSD) at 64 kbps for worldwide voice, fax, and data communications. LandSea Systems, Inc. has developed its M4 Messenger for military, government, and commercial applications. The M4 Messenger uses highly reliable INMARSAT high-orbit satellites to transmit HSD. LandSea's product is a rugged, compact terminal weighing 11.25 lbs. M4 Messenger provides Internet and intranet access, videoconferencing, digital audio broadcast, and image transfer. Standard features include high-gain directional antenna with integrated compass, fast charger, cables, PC software, and a soft carry case.--LandSea Systems, Inc.

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Security software

PROACTIVE NETWORK SECURITY management tool helps preserve the availability of network services and protect the reliability and confidentiality of critical information. L-3 Network Security has expanded its Retriever 1.5 to offer advanced reporting capabilities, extensive options, and nonintrusive policy enforcement features. Retriever 1.5 uses an improved GUI interface and graphical reports to enable prioritization, identify and rank vulnerabilities, recommend safeguard measures, and visually alert users to changes on the network. Key enhancements include assignment of criticality levels to network objects and assets, mapping of network components, customized audit tests, and predictive vulnerability modeling.--L-3 Network Security

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Integrated contact center

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE allows businesses to provide customer service and support using diverse telecom and Internet media. PakNetX Corp. has designed its Integrated Contact Center (ICC) to support all traditional call-center capabilities. With ICC, both on-line and off-line customers can connect to a representative by clicking on a button at a Web site and requesting a phone callback, initiating a text chat session, placing an Internet telephony call, or placing a traditional phone call. PakNetX ICC offers self-contained, standards-based software, support for diverse contacts, CTI integration, and switch-based call control.--PakNetX Corp.

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Wireless local loop

WIRELESS NETWORKING PRODUCT forms an access point capable of speeds to 30 Mbps. Wi-LAN Inc. has designed its I.WiLL access point to meet the stringent demands of telcos, fibercos, cablecos, ISPs, and integrators. At three times the speed of the popular 10-Mbps Ethernet networks, I.WILL operates in the 2.4-2.4835 GHz license-exempt ISM band, allowing telecom suppliers to provide wireless networking connectivity at a fraction of wire, cable, or fiber networking costs. I. WiLL is the first high-speed wireless networking product that uses Wi-LAN's wide-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology, deploying a radio-frequency signal for efficient use of bandwidth.--Wi-LAN, Inc.

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Voice over data

ENABLE FULL PBX FUNCTIONALITY to networked multimedia desktops. Sphere Communications, Inc. has introduced PhonePort PT100, a single-wire solution providing data pass through and an analog-telephone interface for each network workstation. At agencies, such as the Department of Defense, the device enables extensive multiservice network to add full PBX capability to high-bandwidth networks over a single desktop connection for voice, data, and video.