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AIM – Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer
Coastcom’s AIM —Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer is
a next-generation multi-service access concentrator for integrated
access to Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM), Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, and SONET networks.
AIM provides a highly resilient, cost-effective solution for today’s
broadband needs as well as a transition vehicle to tomorrow’s
technologies. Offering carrier-class access, AIM integrates voice/data
services with up to 60 full and fractional T1s and multiple T3s.
AIM functions ideally as a 0/1/3 multiplexer, allowing complex
voice/data grooming at the DS0 level. The system architecture
will allow connection of up to 1,020 full duplex DS0s in any mix
of DS1s and DS3s. AIM fully merges diverse traffic, including
POTS, synchronous data, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, and ATM in a compact,
modular platform. With superior scalability, high port density,
multiple levels of redundancy, and flexible bandwidth allocation,
AIM supports diverse customer traffic while protecting your communications
investment.
Featuring:
- Programmable bandwidth allocation to cost-effectively manage
trunk bandwidth
- Input from Ethernet LANs, routers, digital PBXs,
terminal servers, and Frame Relay assemblers/disassembles (FRAD)
- Operation over a mix of transmission facilities
- T1/T3 drop-and-insert mode of operation
- Full cross-connect capability of 1,020 full duplex DS0s supporting
as many as 60 T1s
- 0/1/3 multiplexing and grooming
- Extensive array of hardware and link-protection options to
maximize system availability
- Simplified network management with AIM-Net® and Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
AIM’s feature-rich platform provides a cost-effective solution
to grow your business:
- Carrier-Class Access
- Superior Scalability
- High-Port Density
- Flexible Bandwidth Allocation
Intelligence By Design AIM’s intelligence allows you to provision
and control your network through the local loop to user locations
so you can quickly and efficiently respond to new requirements.
AIM cost-effectively manages trunk bandwidth, enabling you to program
bandwidth allocation for individual customers. Multiple user applications
can be bundled onto a single access link and unbundled at geographically
dispersed locations. Combined with Coastcom’s user-friendly
AIM-Net graphical interface, AIM users can remotely build and verify
voice/data connections with point-and-click ease.
With AIM’s embedded SNMP agent, a network manager can perform
network configuration as well as obtain performance reports, collect
statistics, and monitor alarms. The SNMP agent can be accessed via
Ethernet and serial ports using a common Web browser. AIM also functions
with standard SNMP management platforms.
For maximum fault tolerance, AIM nodes can easily be configured
with redundant power, common controllers, and port interfaces. AIM
has the capability to automatically re-route traffic around failed
transmission facilities based on the customer's business requirements.
AIM detects and recovers from component failures as well as failures
within attached WANs.
| Traffic
Types |
T1, T3, synchronous data, frame relay, T1 ATM, SONET and Ethernet
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| Transmission |
T1, T3
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| Channel
Service Unit (CSU) |
Integrated
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| Modes of
Operation |
Drop-and-insert,
channel bank |
| Maximum
System Capacity |
Up to
60 T1, full cross connect capability of up to 1,020 full duplex
DS0s |
| Switching
Techniques |
Circuit
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| Data Interfaces
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RS-232,
RS-449/442, V.35 |
| LAN Interfaces
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Ethernet
(10Base-T) |
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