Cimaron Communications Corp. (Andover, MA) announced that Ascend Communications Inc. (Alameda, CA)

Cimaron Communications Corp. (Andover, MA) announced that Ascend Communications Inc. (Alameda, CA) will use one of Cimaron`s OC-12 (622-Mbit/sec) Synchronous Optical Network (sonet) chips in its future wide area network technology products. The chip, known as NILE, is flexible in its ability to support multiple applications, yet unique in that it maps Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cells over sonet. NILE also supports on-chip DS-3 (44.736-Mbit/sec) framing.