Mariana Haven
Hammer Technologies
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mhaven@ham.com

Wilmington, Mass. - June 3, 1997 - Hammer Technologies today announced several key enhancements for their Hammer IT. These enhancements add capacity, reduce cost and provide new features such as facsimile support, improving the Hammer IT's ability to test emerging computer telephony, enhanced services and call center applications.

According to Hammer General Manager, Steve Gladstone "These new capabilities significantly improve the Hammer IT's price performance for many applications while adding to its ability to completely test emerging computer telephony applications and systems. Many enhanced services and unified messaging applications now include voice, fax and data communications. With these enhancements, the Hammer takes another step forward in providing a complete solution for automating both load and feature testing of all these applications." 

Sr. Product Manager Art Michaud added, "The Hammer IT can now support as many as 60 simultaneous ports of fax transmission making it perfect for load, feature, regression or in-service testing. HammerFAX requires no new hardware and is a field upgrade to any Hammer IT system."

A major cost reduction comes in the form of a new entry-level prompt recognition option. "Our ability to understand prompts coming from computer telephony systems has proven 

to be one of our most popular options. Without this ability it is impossible to determine whether or not systems are operating correctly," added Michaud. "Our new prompt recognition option is extremely cost effective for systems that need small amounts of recognition. And, this option is software-based, meaning it needs no dedicated hardware. Now virtually every Hammer IT system can take advantage of this unique capability."

Additional features make the Hammer even easier to use, providing users the ability to create their own programming buttons to store commonly used functions.

"The industry has been clamoring for a single, consistent, easy-to-use, high-capacity open-systems computer telephony test solution" said Hammer's Gladstone. "With these features, we can now provide a system that can emulate virtually every user type, network connection or network device. The Hammer is truly a test system without traditional limitations."

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 family test capabilities include voice, data, T-1, E-1, ISDN, WWW, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, SS-7, Facsimile, Speech Recognition and other related technologies.

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