Aricent wins 'TMC Product of the Year' award

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Aricent, a global innovation, technology and service company focused exclusively on communications, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named its Converged Access Software (CAS) as a recipient of a 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.

Aricent’s CAS is a comprehensive software framework designed for equipment manufacturers to simplify product development and shorten time to market for innovative new residential and small business multi-service gateways. A significant development jumpstart, Aricent’s CAS can reduce time to market and development costs by up to 75per cent as compared with completely organic approaches or integrating different software products from multiple vendors.

According to In-Stat, multi-service business gateway (MSBG) devices will be the means by which nearly all future technology is adopted in the SMB and branch office market segment.  MSBGs are defined as products purposely designed for small business and branch office applications that integrate multiple communication voice, data, and video functions into a single device.  By 2012, In-Stat forecasts the worldwide MSBG market will generate over US $2.7 billion annually, and shipments will grow at a 33per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) over the next five years.

“Demand for multi-service solutions is accelerating across both the small business and the residential communications landscape, driven by the need for faster access, more sophisticated networking requirements, and growing price sensitivity given current economic realities,” said CP Murali, Senior Vice President at Aricent. “Using our Converged Access Software, network equipment manufacturers can quickly and efficiently introduce highly differentiated gateway products for both markets, capitalizing on the multi-billion dollar market for multi-service gateways.”

CAS from Aricent is highly versatile, providing the foundation for a number of different product categories including Residential/Home Gateways, Secure SMB Routers, SIP-enabled Media Gateways and Multi-Services Business Gateways (MSBGs). Leveraging the common CAS across multiple product lines further reduces development complexity, cost and support resources. CAS enables the creation of multiple product lines based on a single software platform, and includes the following capabilities:

Routing & Switching–  RIP v1/v2 OSPF v2 with MD5, Ethernet interfaces, Ethernet Switching, 802.1x based port authentication, RSTP, MSTP and advanced VLAN management with GVRP

Wireless LAN – 802.11 a/b/g/n, support for multiple SSIDs, user authentication based on 802.1x for each wireless client, and WEP/WPA/WPA 2 encryption

Quality of Service (QoS) / Traffic Management – Advanced QoS features based on fields like Source IP, Destination IP, VLAN ID, DSCP value, interface and protocol, 802.1p, DiffServ, and class based queuing

VPNs and Security Services – IPSec VPN, stateful inspection firewall, DoS mitigation, NAT and common ALGs

Voice Services – Session Border Controller services including SIP Proxy, Registrar, Call Admission Control (CAC), Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) and other key enterprise centric SIP enabled voice services

Management – Complete management with SNMP v1/v2/v3, CLI, user-friendly Web UI, SSH, and integrated TR-069 for zero-touch remote management

Interface Support– xDSL, T1/E1, PPP, ML-PPP and Ethernet

“Aricent has been recognized with a 2008 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in the advancement of voice, data and/or video communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “Aricent has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them.  I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2008 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.