US Robotics Inc has announced its new ‘PPP COP’ feature for the Total Control Enterprise Network Hub. The new feature is designed to increase remote access performance, handling bi-directional co-processing of Point-to-Point Protocol packets directly in the company’s modem signal processing engines. PPP COP runs in each Total Control modem. Each modem includes an integrated Intel Corp 80186 processor, which executes part of the Point-to-Point Protocol stack and improves performance. With PPP COP, says US Robotics, a single Total Control Enterprise Network Hub, fully-configured, provides more than 2,100 MIPS of processing power, or more than 1GHz of power to process incoming calls. PPP COP is a key component of the remote access delivered by US Robotics’s new EdgeServer communications server, which is also integrated into Total Control. EdgeServer integrates computing into Total Control, enabling third party applications such as firewall, collaborative computing, security, Internet, intranet and cacheing-proxy software to be run in Total Control for a self-contained access system. By placing frequently-accessed information such as Web pages and remote access applications directly onto the EdgeServer, the user is given immediate authentication and quick access. By moving applications processing to the network’s edge, EdgeServer reduces the network’s internal traffic load and increases overall remote access performance, according to the company. PPP COP also works with the company’s integrated NETServer remote access server to increase remote access performance. Running in a Total Control modem, PPP COP handles asynchronous character translation and cyclic redundancy check calculations for inbound and outbound Point- to-Point Protocol packets. This leaves the EdgeServer or NETServer free to route incoming calls and network requests.
