Assured Access RAS Platform Excels in System Performance Testing by The Tolly Group

Business Wire, Dec 15, 1998

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1998--

-- Testing Confirms Up to 71% of Single-client Throughput

With Hundreds of V.90 Modem Clients --

Assured Access Technology, an innovative provider of carrier-class access equipment, today announced the results of independent performance testing of Assured Access' X1000 Access Concentrator conducted by The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Manasquan, N.J. These tests demonstrated that the Assured Access X1000 system, configured with 384 modem V.90 clients, delivers more than 106 Kbit/s throughput for a single client, when handling compressed data over a 56K bit/sec circuit.

Testing also revealed that the Assured Access X1000 delivered in excess of 84 Kbit/s of per-client throughput when loaded with nearly 375 simultaneous clients.

"Even with hundreds of simultaneously-connected users, the Assured Access X1000 demonstrated an impressive per user throughput," said Kevin Tolly, The Tolly Group founder and president. "By using the Megalanche testbed at Midnight Networks we were able to benchmark the performance of this high-density product."

"We are extremely pleased with the results of these tests," said Marilyn Suey, Assured Access Vice President of Marketing. "The throughput of our Assured Access X1000 is a strong affirmation of our performance and system scalability claims, and validate our customers' feedback about the product's ability to scale to their needs."

Assured Access' family of Access Concentrators was designed and built specifically for public data networking. The product family supports high capacity dial, dedicated and broadband access from any of its three shelves. Each system has been designed from the ground up to deliver the level of network reliability and system scalability that service providers have come to expect from network equipment suppliers. The product family supports a wide variety of interface types and protocols for a broad user base and was designed to scale to thousands of users.

In addition, Assured Access systems are easy to install, operate and maintain and provide the flexibility, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance required for successful public network operations. Designed to eliminate downtime, no single points of failure exist in an Assured Access system and every essential hardware and software component can be backed up by at least one redundant copy. All hardware components are hot-swappable.

Midnight Networks Test Environment

To benchmark the Assured Access products, The Tolly Group used Midnight Network's Megalanche test lab in Waltham, Mass. Megalanche is comprised of 17 Avalanche/RAS, its standard RAS test tool. The test bed used a mix of V. 90 modems from USR and Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. and 16 Carrier Access T1 channel banks at the central side.

About Assured Access

Founded in September 1996, Assured Access Technology, Inc. designs, develops, and markets a family of multi-service access concentrators designed specifically for Service Providers. With an advanced architecture that is scalable to significantly more than the capacity of current access solutions, the Assured Access product family is positioned to help Service Providers increase switched and dedicated access capacity. Assured Access is headed by a management team from high technology industry leaders including FORE Systems (NASDAQ:FORE), Rockwell (NYSE:ROK), Ascend (NASDAQ:ASND), 3Com (NASDAQ:COMS), and AT&T (NYSE:T).

About The Tolly Group

The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Manasquan, N.J., is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its Web site at http://www.tolly.com or E-mail info@tolly.com, call 800-933-1699/732-528-3300 or fax 732-528-1888.