Adtran Advances the World’s Leading IP Business Gateway to the Next Level

The Total Access 900e Gen 3 delivers increased performance and enhanced features at the same price, further distancing the market leader from the competition

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Aug. 28, 2013– ADTRAN®, Inc., a leading provider of cloud connectivity, enterprise communications and mobility solutions, has announced the release of its Total Access® 900e Gen 3 series of Ethernet and Multi-T1 IP Business Gateways. The Total Access 900e series is purpose-built for carrier SIP/MGCP VoIP networks and is the industry’s leading IP Business Gateway. The solution combines robust routing and voice features for highly reliable and cost-effective services ranging from SIP trunking to hosted PBX. The updated line of business-class IP Business Gateways feature next-generation technology, higher performance, more memory and more features to support the bandwidth, applications and services today’s businesses demand. Customers benefit from these new features with no price increase, creating immediate customer value.

The latest Frost & Sullivan research confirms that ADTRAN is the leading vendor in the VoIP access and SIP trunking segment of the Global Enterprise Media Gateway Market with more than 70 percent market share in terms of units shipped. Rob Arnold, senior analyst for information and communication technologies at Frost & Sullivan states: “Frost & Sullivan’s research clearly shows that by designing enterprise products from the ground up to support multiple services and roles, ADTRAN delivers a strong investment protection message coupled with the flexibility to deliver ongoing software capabilities for the ‘next big thing’ in the unified communications arena.”

ADTRAN’s next generation Total Access 900e series of IP Business Gateways further expands its support of this market, enabling carriers to support advanced routing protocols, Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic delivery. The solution offers multiple chassis options for extreme flexibility and scalability, ensuring the delivery of services required for business operations today, as well as the capacity to enable future growth. The third generation Total Access 900e also includes the following features:

• 66 percent increase in router performance, enabling higher bandwidth applications and services at 100 Mbps
• Instant high-speed Ethernet connectivity with an additional routed Gigabit Ethernet interface
• Hardware-based encryption that provides secure service delivery, without impacting high-performance services
• Enhanced flexibility in hardware configuration, including optional Foreign Exchange Office (FXO) interfaces

“As carrier experts continue to choose ADTRAN for their network, we have raised the bar on the performance and features of the Total Access 900e to address new applications and capabilities needed to take high-performance networks to the next level,” said Chris Thompson, director of product management for ADTRAN. “The Total Access 900e third gen delivers higher bandwidth, more security and supports additional services and applications to satisfy the needs of tomorrow’s fast-paced and high-bandwidth business environment, at no additional cost.”

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organisations, and millions of individual users worldwide.

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