In 1998, the Tigris family of products from ACC was named the data com- munication industry's Hot Product of the Year. Ericsson's acquisition of ACC, which was part of its string-of-pearls strategy, positions the compa- Ny to migrate existing wireline and wireless customers toward IP commu- Nication and to build complete end-to-end network solutions based on The Internet protocol. The authors describe the Tigris family, which provides a gateway Between circuit-switchned and IP networks.
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