Brand’s Apollo Emulator 2 Connects Mobile Professionals From Anywhere in the World

The New Apollo Emulator 2 makes GSM data a reality

May 17, 1999

Hot on the heels of Brand’s unique, original and award-winning Apollo Emulator comes the Apollo Emulator 2. Customers feedback, new technology and sheer demand have driven this new development. Emulator 2 incorporates all of the features that have made the original Emulator such a success – spoofing, compression, call recovery and security – but now does much more too.

It has become a mass-market product with its bombproof install, generic media and serial number activation. It has become much simpler to configure and use. It has become much more efficient in terms of performance and size. It has become more universal in the simplicity with which it communicates with external devices, using drop-down lists. It has become more informative via its pop-up status and statistics boxes. It is available on more operating systems. And it is more intuitive and feature-rich for the user, including hot buttons for selecting mediums and activities.

Orders for Emulator 2 mean that it is already the most widely-used access software in the UK and perhaps abroad. Brand have also recently received an order for supplying 37,000 mobile data users with the Apollo Emulator 2 in one UK organisation. All in all, Apollo Emulator 2 is set to revolutionise the way people access data on the move, which can only be good news for the entire industry.

The Apollo Emulator 2 is a software package (no hardware) that installs on the PC. It is installed as an NDIS driver which presents itself as an Ethernet network card to Windows95. The Emulator can be configured to act in all respects exactly like a normal LAN card. The PC therefore believes that the Apollo Emulator 2 is a WAN or LAN connection rather than a "remote access" product, which enables the user to run any LAN application without modification. The Apollo Emulator establishes an Ethernet connection with the distant LAN when required, but of course it does not do this via a standard physical Ethernet medium (e.g. 10Base-T or BNC); instead it uses the communications medium made available to it by the remote user (as explained above). In summary, it Emulates a LAN Ethernet connection but it does it remotely via a dial-up network whilst taking into account all of the differences, issues, performance variations, and reliability factors associated with that network. The Apollo Emulator has unique spoofing, call recovery, compression and compatibility benefits.

Regarding the other elements of the remote solution outlined above, the Apollo Emulator is fully compatible with virtually all of them which makes it one of the most plug and play communications solutions available today.

About Brand Communications

Brand Communications is a global leader in mobile data and remote access solutions. We develop, manufacture and market a range of leading mobile, remote office and site-to-site access solutions for all environments including ISDN, PSTN, Fixed Lines, Satellite, GSM and GPRS.

Apollo has helped to significantly grow the number of active GSM data users worldwide and has delivered tangible paybacks to many networks and their users. Apollo continues to deliver such rich benefits to HSCSD, GPRS and 3G networks. More information can be found at http://www.brandcomms.com

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