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Nokia at SuperComm: Nokia Partners with CopperCom to Deliver Voice Over DSL
June 08, 1999
Interoperability Enables Seamless Integration of Voice with Existing DSL Infrastructure
Nokia, a leading industry supplier of DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) access products and services, today announced its partnership with CopperCom, a Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL.
Interoperability between Nokia's SpeedlinkTM, a carrier-class, ATM-based DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer), and CopperCom's MXR, a customer premises device that is part of the CopperComplete DSL product family, enables service providers to profitably meet the growing demands of small businesses and upscale residences for integrated voice and high-speed data over a single copper pair in the local loop. As a participant in CopperCom's The Many Voices of DSL partner program, Nokia is helping to educate and grow the market for Voice over DSL and is also working with CopperCom to market and sell Voice over DSL solutions.
CopperComplete DSL interoperability will be demonstrated this week via copper-colored telephones linking Nokia's booth #4719 to CopperCom's booth #253. Telephone calls may be placed from any copper-colored telephone to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). The demo will showcase dynamic bandwidth allocation of 16 telephone lines and high-speed data access. This public interoperability demonstration is the result of over 6 months of joint product planning, development, and testing between Nokia and CopperCom. Nokia's Speedlink and CopperCom's MXR are currently in customer lab trials together.
"Our customers are telling us that voice over DSL, using mature ATM Quality of Service, is a requirement for their DSL deployments," said George Hawley, CTO for Nokia High Speed Access Products. "CopperCom has developed a system that meets stringent voice connection performance requirements. We are pleased to partner with CopperCom to deliver our customers a high-quality voice and high-speed data solution that fits their needs."
According to Cynthia Ringo, CopperCom's president and CEO, "interoperability allows seamless integration of Voice over DSL into the existing network infrastructure, a key requirement for service providers as they look for ways to cost-effectively augment their offerings while protecting the huge investment they've already made. Because Nokia Speedlink is a robust, highly scalable, carrier-class DSLAM that offers QoS (Quality of Service) functionality, it has been and continues to be deployed in many service provider networks. Partnering with such a leading industry vendor as Nokia helps us to grow the market for Voice over DSL."
Speedlink System
Nokia High Speed Access Products is a part of Nokia Corporation. The unit is a worldwide leader in DSL solutions. Formerly known as Diamond Lane Communications, Nokia High Speed Access Products was the first supplier to commercially offer an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) based, multi-service, Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM). The Speedlink System enables service providers to deliver both voice and data to end-users via ordinary copper pairs. Highly scalable and flexible, the Speedlink system offers multiple modular remote solutions that support both large and small-scale subscribers.Nokia Eksos B20 is the ETSI version of Speedlink.
CopperComplete DSL Product Family
CopperComplete DSL consists of two carrier-class products, the CopperCom MXR (pronounced "mixer") for the customer premises and the CopperCom Gateway, which sits between the DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) and a Class 5 Switch at the service provider's Central Office or Regional Switching Center. The CopperComplete DSL products feature true telephony, seamless integration, flexibility and efficiency, ease of provisioning and management, and 99.999% reliability.
The CopperCom MXR is a customer premise device that combines data and voice traffic onto a DSL line. Easily installed, managed, and provisioned, it is a full DSL data router that also supports analog connections from any telephone, fax machine, key system, and PBX. The high-capacity, carrier-class CopperCom Gateway can support from four to 44 T1 connections - 1056 simultaneous calls - in a single gateway. Using oversubscription, the capacity of a single gateway can increase up to 10-fold. Multiple gateway chassis can also be stacked.
The Many Voices of DSL Partner Program
CopperCom's The Many Voices of DSL partner program's charter is to:
1) educate the market on the new technology of Voice over DSL
2) offer service providers interoperable solutions for delivering Voice over DSL
3) provide DSL vendors with joint marketing and sales opportunities for Voice over DSL
4) give DSL vendors the ability to ensure interoperability with CopperComplete DSL
5) support the standards initiatives for delivering voice and data services in the local loop in the ADSL Forum and the ATM Forum.
CopperCom is a privately held Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL. The company was founded to address a worldwide market that is at the crossroads of voice and data convergence, and is paving the way for the next generation of high-bandwidth applications. CopperCom has taken a leadership role in both market education and standards efforts for Voice over DSL. The company has built a strong management team with expertise across both the data and voice networking industries, international depth in Europe, Asia and North America markets, and management experience in start-ups as well as large multinationals. CopperCom has attracted engineering talent from AT&T, Ericcson, NortTel, Fujitsu, Ipsilon, Fore, Advanced Micro Devices, AFCI, DSC, Network Equipment Technologies, Juniper and Madge Networks. CopperCom can be contacted via telephone at 408-567-9277, fax at 408-567-9558, and the Internet at www.coppercom.com.
Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges, has sales in over 130 countries and employs more than 47,000 people worldwide.
Contact information:
Kelly Reese
Nokia High Speed Access Products
Tel: +1 707 793 7044
Fax: +1 707 792 0850
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