Mariana Haven
Hammer Technologies
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mhaven@ham.com

Wilmington, Mass. - June 3, 1997 - Hammer Technologies today announced significant upgrades to their leading Hammer ISG call generation system. The ISG, which stands for Integrated Stress Generator, now provides users with the ability to mix physical telephony interfaces and signaling types in a single system. Prices have been reduced up to 25% from previous ISG models, making it the most cost effective call generation system available. All Hammer ISG systems are 100% compatible with the Hammer IT (Integrated Telephony) test system, the standard for testing computer telephony, enhanced services and call center applications.

According to Hammer vice president of R&D, David Hartig "Traditional bulk call generators have been known for their difficulty of use, poor programming environments, inflexibility, and inability to mix signaling types - forcing users to buy a new, incompatible system for each interface. Our repackaged ISG breaks from tradition in all these areas. Following our open-systems approach to developing test systems, we have truly produced a call generation systems that meets modern telephony load testing requirements without the traditional limitations."

The ISG provides the same graphical interface, patented test development tools, and Visual Basic-compatible test language as the Hammer IT system, but is designed to meet the needs of testers who need to cost effectively generate intelligent telephony load on 

many ports simultaneously. Hammer ISGs may operate as stand-alone systems or work in conjunction with other Hammer IT or Hammer ISG systems for complete high-volume load and feature testing. 

"The ISG's unique ability to mix and match telephony interfaces and signaling provides the ability to both test applications more completely as well as more cost effectively. A single system may be configured with T-1, or E-1 (ISDN and CAS), Analog, and SS7 capabilities allowing it to emulate both network and line side traffic simultaneously" said Hammer senior product manager Art Michaud. "The ISG even supports the option to speak unlimited vocabulary voice, making it perfect for load-testing speech recognition systems."

Hammer ISG systems include a full high-performance Windows NT-equipped telephony chassis and start at under $12,000 for analog and under $16,000 for T-1 systems. Options include an ODBC compatible database, prompt playback and record. Additional telephony and signaling interfaces may be added at any time.

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 of 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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