Introduction

Memotec Communications is an industry-leading provider of data, voice and video convergence solutions for telecommunications carriers, ISPs and corporate customers. The Company's product line of access devices and edge switches provides consolidation of multiservice traffic over cell-based and packet-based networks such as ATM, IP and Frame Relay. The growth of computer networks and the convergence of data, voice and video within networks has produced unprecedented opportunity for telecommunications hardware vendors. Being at the crest of this wave, Memotec is poised to play a significant role in the emerging network convergence marketplace.


Multiservice Access and Switch Products

Multiservice and Multiprotocol

Memotec Communications CX seriers Access Switch provides delivers an end-to-end multiservice solution for central site, regional and remote office for enterprise and carrier networks with multiprotocol and multiservice access to networks. The CX serier offers single-platform consolidation of LAN, legacy and voice at an affordable price. It supports a broad range of services including voice and data as well as a wide range of protocols from user devices that include; legacy SNA/SDLC, Async, 3270 Bisync, HDLC and X.25, Frame Relay, Token Ring and Ethernet. Memotec's CX series is the ideal solution for today's convergence needs while providing performance and throughput to enterprise and carrier network extending newer applications.

Unparalleled Flexibility

Memotec's high performance CX series is the industry's first multiservice platform that integrates data, voice and video over any of today's WAN technologies (Frame Relay, IP, ISDN, X.25) and voice technologies to a T1/E1 ATM service for both public and private network environments.

Unmatched Adaptability/Scalability

Featuring a state of the art processor, the CX series delivers superior performance and throughput for today's growing networking applications. It offers enhanced scalability with an modular slot chassis for a wide choice of interface modules which support a multitude of applications. By simply inserting the corresponding module, the CX series can be easily configured to support various applications, including - LAN applications; legacy protocols from various serial modules, and voice compression applications from analog and digital voice modules. A range of optional 56/64Kbps, T1/E1 CSU/DSU, ISDN (PRI, BRI) and V.34 dial-back-up modules. Its ease of upgradeability allows enterprise networks to easily adapt the CX series Access Switch to new applications over a choice of ATM, Frame Relay, IP and ISDN services.

Reduced Cost of Ownership- Voice over Packet

Enterprise networks can reduce recurring network costs by employing the CX series to integrate voice communications over an existing data infrastructure. With support for VoATM, VoFR and VoIP, the CX series offers enterprise networks a choice of technologies that deliver networking, cost and performance benefits. Memotec's unique voice architecture enables true any to any gatewaying of packet or PSTN voice services. The CX series reduces, or even eliminates, long distance toll charges when voice calls are piggybacked onto an existing data network.

Easy to Manage

The CX series is configured using Memotec's new CXTool, a Windows-based configuration tool specifically designed for Memotec's CX family of products. CXTool makes configuration easy. Simply point, click and fill in the information. Monitoring is performed using Memotec's CXView, a monitoring tool based on a client/server architecture that allows network managers to view status information on their Memotec-based network components from any location, using a standard HTTP browser. The CXView can be easily integrated within an NMS, such as HP OpenView.