FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CTI Expo'99 - Washington, D.C.
BOOTH# 645 

Contact Information:
Mariana Haven
Hammer Technologies
888-888-8888, ext. 216
mhaven@ham.com

Wilmington, MA - May 25, 1999 - Hammer Technologies announces the Hammer LoadBlasterä series of bulk call generators. Both the Hammer LoadBlaster 500 and 300 models use the revolutionary Hammer TestBuilderä UI for test creation and results reporting. The Hammer LoadBlaster 300 also carries the lowest entry price in the industry for a one-span load test solution.

The new Hammer TestBuilder User Interface provides an environment so that tests can be set up quickly and intuitively, without programming, using stimulus/response icons. As the test call flow is defined, a ladder diagram is built for visual verification as the actions are selected. Real-time monitoring of tests in progress is available with three different views, including the convenience of an active ladder diagram view of call flow for at-a-glance confirmation of test progression and test flow troubleshooting. Results from each test can be viewed as a high level summary or with varying levels of granularity, such as by channel or listing of time-stamped errors.

Seth Newberry, Vice President of Marketing at Hammer stated, "In following Hammer's tradition, the Hammer TestBuilder interface sets itself apart as the new standard for ease of use in the bulk call generator market. The resultant benefit to the customer is the lowest overall cost of ownership available today." 

"An additional benefit is that the intuitive test flow ladder diagram and generated reports create a simple yet powerful communication tool that is easily captured across the entire organization, said Art Michaud , Director of Product Marketing for Hammer.

The Hammer LoadBlaster 500 scales to 12 spans in one system and with one master controller can handle up to 60 spans in one view. That translates to 1,800 E1 channels with a busy hour call rate in excess of one million calls per hour.

The Hammer LoadBlaster 300 is available as a one span load test system with a $9,800 list price.

About Hammer Technologies

Based in Wilmington, Mass., Hammer Technologies, a Teradyne Company was founded in 1991. Hammer Technologies provides the Hammer family of products - The Standard for Computer Telephony Testing.

Hammers are in use today by developers of computer telephony, advanced switching, and enhanced services systems, most of the regional Bell Operating companies and long-distance carriers, and at call centers of numerous Fortune 100 companies.

Hammer is the only system that provides a complete solution for load, feature, regression, and in-service testing of integrated telecommunications systems and services.

The Hammer's test capabilities include voice, data, T1, E1, ISDN, WWW, TCP/IP, SS7, LAN/WAN, Speech Recognition, and other related technologies.

Additional Information on Hammer:

Please visit our web page at www.ham.com

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