FORE Systems has announced an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and reseller agreement with ACT Networks, a leading vendor of integrated voice-data access products. Under the terms of the agreement FORE Systems will market and resell ACT`s NetPerformer line of multiservice access products.
According to Milton Thorne, director of operations at FORE Systems southern Africa, the NetPerformer product line enables businesses to implement a broad range of packet-based voice and data networking applications. "Specifically, NetPerformer is designed to integrate voice, fax, SNA (Systems Network Architecture) and LAN traffic over Frame Relay and emerging public network services. This allows businesses to implement branch, regional and central site internetworking with a low cost of ownership," says Thorne.
Enterprise customers can deploy NetPerformer to cost-effectively extend the reach of their integrated voice-data backbone networks to their smaller branch offices over ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) or Frame Relay WAN services.
Neil Viljoen, vice president of product marketing for FORE Systems, says: "The NetPerformer product range allows customers to extend the benefits of FORE`s high capacity multiservice ATM service to their smaller locations. Now customers can deploy a resilient, scalable and high quality integrated voice-data infrastructure throughout their enterprise."
The agreement between ACT and FORE Systems is strategically beneficial for both companies. FORE`s leadership in building and supporting intelligent and robust backbone infrastructures combined with ACT`s expertise in integrating voice, fax and data onto these industrial-strength backbones will provide customers with powerful solutions for implementing large-scale, integrated voice and data networks.
Services supported by the NetPerformer product line include IP and IPX routing, SNA networking, voice call routing, voice compression to optimise bandwidth utilisation and class of service traffic management for application-based bandwidth management.
FORE Systems will offer the NetPerformer products in combination with its multiservice ATM switches, allowing organisations to build packet-based, integrated voice and data wide area backbone networks encompassing small to large user locations. By consolidating voice and data applications onto Frame Relay and ATM wide area networking services, this solution gives customers the flexibility to select the most cost-effective packet-based WAN service for a given site while eliminating the costs associated with private line facilities. The NetPerformer products are available immediately from FORE Systems and its authorised distributors.
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