General Datacomm Industries Inc. provides networking and telecommunications products, services and solutions. The company focuses on providing multi service provisioning solutions using multi service access and switching products. It designs, assembles, markets, installs and maintains products that enable telecommunications common carriers, corporations, and governments to build, improve, and manage their global telecommunications networks.
Product Suites
Multiservice Switches - Xedge6000
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General Datacomm Industries Inc. provides networking and telecommunications products, services and solutions. The company focuses on providing multi service provisioning solutions using multi service access and switching products. It designs, assembles, markets, installs and maintains products that enable telecommunications common carriers, corporations, and governments to build, improve, and manage their global telecommunications networks.
Product Suites
Multiservice Switches - Xedge6000
The Multiservice switching family known as Xedge, manages multiple applications over various transport technologies and is installed in large enterprise and government networks for mission critical applications. The company focuses on converging and migrating legacy TDM, ATM, Frame Relay and other services to packet based (Ethernet, IP, MPLS) architectures. Multiplexers deployed in large enterprise and government networks worldwide.
The company’s major product, Xedge6000 is multiservice platform that supports packet based MPLS and Ethernet transmission, as well as Asynchronous Transfer Mode cell switching technology (ATM) based multiservices. Its Packet Cell Switch (PCx) enables multiservices (native Frame Relay, Time Division Multiplexing technology (TDM), Ethernet, ATM, and Internet Protocol) over MPLS, ATM, or Ethernet trunk interfaces. The technology allows service providers and private network operators to offer converged solutions. The company’s network manager, ProSphere, facilitates the provisioning and monitoring of the converged service network.
GDC Xedge6000 switches and related Xedge products deliver solutions for public network providers and large private network operators in government, transportation, utilities, energy, and education sectors. It also resells other products (video codecs, integrated access devices, routers, among others) that extend the solution application reach of the Xedge6000. The ProSphere network management system provides a means of managing and the Xedge family of switches, and also applications such as video-conferencing.
Multiplexers
The company supplies a line of multiplexing products. The TMS-3000 is a network managed bandwidth management system for high speed wide area networks. The TMS-3000 is primarily sold to system integrators, government agencies and enterprise customers. It also provides an access product into the TMS-3000 network for smaller branch or regional offices through the OCM feeder and Minimux platforms. The OCM platform offers connectivity to various digital carrier services and uses the same bandwidth optimization techniques as the TMS-3000 to transport a changing mix of applications, LAN to WAN integration, image and video along with traditional voice and data traffic. Minimux platforms provide a data and voice solution for satellite applications.
OEM
The company has entered into agreements with other manufacturers to supply products for sale which complement its own products’ capabilities and provide a broader solution. Such manufacturers include H3C and Tailyn Networks.
SpectraComm Family
The SpectraComm product line consists of products that are NEBS Level 3 Certified for deployment in mission critical applications in telephone company central offices and government applications.
SpectraComm family of NEBS Level 3 modems, digital service units, and LAN products support a range of applications. These T3 broadband applications include M13, T1/FT1, E1/FE1 wide-band applications, 2.4 kbps - 64 kbps digital data service narrow-band applications, switched or private line analog applications, and local area network applications (Ethernet extension and Ethernet switching).
Professional Services
The company provides outsourced services, installation, maintenance and product repair services for the network access products, as well as services, such as project management, training, coordination, staging, and network testing.
Customers
The company’s customers include local exchange carriers, including AT&T, Bell Canada, Qwest, and Verizon; inter exchange carriers; corporate end users; and government entities, including NATO, NASA, U.S. department of defense and other U.S. government departments, including the U.S. State Department, the FAA, the U.K. Ministry of Defense and the Italian Ministry of Defense. Distributors and integrators deliver General DataComm products to markets in Europe and Latin America.
Competition
The company’s competitors include ADC Telecom, Cisco, Adtran, Network Equipment Technologies, and Alcatel/Lucent.
History
General Datacomm Industries Inc. was founded in 1969. It was incorporated in 1969.
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