Ascend Communications
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The B-STDX and communications CBX/GX lines were the workhorses of most RBOC Frame Relay Ascend Communications and ATM networks throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. The complete product suite made Ascend an attractive asset, and was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999. New World Communications In the mid-1990s, the company was one of the leading vendors of ISDN modems and concentrators. Ascend Communications also acquired several companies.
Customers such as AOL, Earthlink, and UUnet purchased over two million dialup ports worth of MAX TNT access servers during the dialup days of the internet. The merger was one of the largest mergers in history ($24B USD). Ascend s stock (traded under the Nasdaq symbol ASND), was one of the Ascend Communications strongest momentum stocks of the mid-1990s. .
Many companies still use MAX TNT for dialup (look for TNT in dialup hostnames). Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999. Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density Ascend Communications dialup installations, most notably the MAX TNT, which allowed for a ds3 of dialup lines to be terminated in a few rack units.
