MINDLink(DCL) significantly reduces time-to-market and development costs

Dublin, March 19th, 2007 – Silicon & Software Systems(S3)’s embeddedMIND Product Division and Data Connection, today announced the immediate availability of MINDLink(DCL), the latest addition to S3’s world leading embeddedMIND family of products. Designed for communication equipment manufacturers, MINDLink(DCL) dramatically reduces the time-to-market and development cost for those companies looking to build solutions using embeddedMIND and Data Connection’s (DCL’s) market leading network protocol stacks.

MINDLink(DCL) is a fully integrated and supported solution coupling DCL’s MPLS and IP routing protocol suite with a management framework that provides unified support for CLI, SNMP, XML and NETCONF interfaces.

Phil McConnell, CEO of DCL’s Networking Protocol Division, commented, “MINDLink(DCL) provides our customers with an out-of-the-box, comprehensive management solution that delivers all the high availability and flexibility characteristics that our customers have come to expect from DCL’s portable protocol solutions. Customers now have access to the pre-eminent protocol and management solutions in the industry without incurring the cost and effort of integrating the two.”

Jim O’Donoghue, General Manager, embeddedMIND, said: “Many companies talk about their products being interoperable. MINDLink(DCL) goes a step further and offers a fully integrated solution that is carrier grade quality and fully supported by both companies. This removes the integration time and risk for our joint customers, offering a huge advantage when deciding which combination of commercial off-the-shelf software to choose.”
MINDLink(DCL) can be used by equipment manufacturers with an existing in-house management solution as a powerful out-of-the-box evaluation and test environment for network protocol stacks. This use of MINDLink(DCL) in the test lab can be extended using embeddedMIND’s modelling functionality to provide a full system management layer in the final product.

About embeddedMIND

embeddedMIND™ is a division of Silicon and Software Systems Ltd (S3).

The embeddedMIND product family was developed based on the experience gained over a 20-year period of providing solutions for the world’s leading networking equipment manufacturers.
embeddedMIND has been built from the ground up to provide a unified approach to network device management. Our unique architecture enables us to support today’s and tomorrow’s network management standards while minimizing the impact of changing interfaces on our customers’ application. embeddedMIND scales from access to core applications and has been deployed in infrastructures as diverse as wireless base stations, enterprise routers and highend metro-edge routers.

embeddedMIND provides a key part of the system infrastructure in an off-the-shelf solution that provides high quality, robust, carrier-grade performance. This enables equipment manufacturers to focus on providing value-added features and services to their customers.
For further information visit http://www.embeddedmind.com

About Data Connection Limited

Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of IMS, SIP, Megaco/H.248, Diameter, MGCP, SBC, Unicast and Multicast IP Routing, MPLS, ATM, and SNA portable products. The company's MetaSwitch Division supplies IMS switching and applications solutions to service providers. Its widely deployed call agent, media/signaling gateway and application server platform provides an integrated solution offering a full range of Class 4/5 capabilities and unified communications services. The Internet Applications Division focuses on supplying its IMS-compliant UC-Portal messaging and application services platform, together with a comprehensive set of Systems Integration engineering, migration and support services, to tier 1 service providers.

Customers include the world's largest software and hardware vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft, and major telecommunications service providers such as AT&T, BT, France Telecom and Verizon. With over 360 employees, Data Connection is headquartered in London, UK with US offices in Alameda, CA, Boxborough, MA, Dallas, TX and Reston, VA. For more information, please see www.dataconnection.com and www.metaswitch.com .

embeddedMIND contacts
Europe
David French, S3
Tel: +48 71 33 48 174
Email : david.french@s3group.com

North America and Asia
Jon Parrish, S3
Tel: +1 408 415 0223
Email: jon.parrish@s3group.com

Data Connection contact
Joe Whitehouse, DCL
Tel: +1 978 635 0004
Email: Joe.whitehouse@dataconnection.com

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