Communications & Networking

Established in 1993, PLANET was founded by a group of computer engineers from Wang Laboratories. Combining the energy and drive of a start-up with the strength of vast experience in world-class computer science enterprises, PLANET concentrates on developing end-to-end networking solutions for small to medium- sized enterprises. PLANET is also dedicated to supply a variety of applications for Education, Finance, Health Care and Government demands. Fulfilling a major milestone, PLANET officially listed on Taiwan's over the Counter Stock Exchange Market in September 2003, and is dedicated to pursuing IP technology innovation and to enforce itself as a leader in the global IP networking equipment market.

Products and Solutions
PLANET delivers award-winning, energy-saving, and high-performance networking products including:

* Layer 2/3 LAN Switches
* Layer4-7 Server Load Balancer
* Ethernet Intelligent Traffic-management
* Fiber Optic networking & Media Conversion
* Wireless LAN Mesh & Bluetooth
* Powerline Communication
* Digital Home
* Voice & Video over IP
* IP PBX
* IP Surveillance
* Broadband Communication
* Power over Ethernet
* Network Security Gateway
* QoS Bandwidth Management
* Storage RAID Server (NAS)
* KVM/Power Management over IP

PATARA is the Regional Distributor Pacific Island for PLANET. More information on the PLANET range is available here

Digium is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.

Digium provides quality hardware and software products that enable telephony applications including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and customer software development services.
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. It supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports US and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.

PATARA is an Authorised Digium Reseller. More information on the Asterisk/Digium range is available here

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 47,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as:

* IP Communications
* Network Security
* Wireless LAN
* Storage Area Networking
* Home Networking
* Video Systems
* Application Networking Services

Cisco has been at the heart of many historic changes in technology, and that continues to be true today. Now, at a time when the technology industry is going through a period of dramatic change, Cisco is the market leader in multiple areas, such as routing and switching, unified communications, wireless and security. The company helped catalyze the industry's move toward IP and, now that it is fully underway, the company is at the center of fundamental changes in the way the world communicates.

PATARA is a Cisco Registered Partner. Learn more about the Cisco product range here