May  2001

VoDSL: Tools And Solutions

Voice over DSL...the idea makes perfect sense. Many traditional issues with Internet telephony exist in the network, such as a lack of bandwidth, are answered by DSL service roll out. The spread of broadband across the nation, especially in the DSL space, is giving voice services a new tune to whistle. This month's Roundup focuses on VoDSL Tools and Solutions. Read over it to get an idea of the products applicable to your voice needs.

The Editors

CPX-1000
Jetstream Communications, Inc.
5400 Hellyer Ave.
San Jose, CA 95138-1005
888-538-7873
At the heart of Jetstream's voice over broadband access solution is the CPX-1000, a large-scale voice services platform that lets carriers deliver multi-line local telephone service over broadband access networks, including DSL, Wireless Local Loop, T1 and cable. Designed to meet the reliability, availability, and serviceability demands of carrier-class telephone equipment, the CPX-1000 typically resides in a regional switching center and connects to a Class 5 switch. A CPX-1000 system performs all functions necessary to deliver hundreds of thousands of subscriber telephone lines over a broadband access network, including circuit-to-packet conversion, routing, call administration, traffic management, and security.

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CellPipe IAD
Lucent Technologies
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
908-582-8500
The CellPipe IAD is designed to provide the CPE component of a complete voice-over-DSL solution. The ATM-based IAD supports both voice and data transmitted over a single xDSL data stream. Used in conjunction with a voice-gateway, service providers can deploy a wider range of integrated voice and data services while preserving existing Class 5 switch functionality. Target customers include CLECs, ILECs, RBOCs, ISPs, VARs, and distributors that are offering broadband access solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, single-family residences, and the multi-tenant/multi-dwelling unit market.

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Secure Broadband Access Router
PUREDATA, Inc.
8001 Irvine Center Dr., 3rd Floor
Irvine, CA 92618
949-754-3142
The RT-108P is a fully featured IP sharing and basic firewall router that supports all the required features to function as the company's primary Internet access device. PUREDATA's RT-108P includes NAT (Network Address Translation), DNS, and DHCP service for real time IP address allocation and static IP filtering for quick Internet service management. To offer the full and bestcompatibility, the router supports a variety of transport protocols,including TCP/IP, PPP, PPPoE and other popular routing protocols. The router also supports IPSec Passthru allowing VPN client users to access their main server using a secure IPSec tunnel.

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SpeedStream
Efficient Networks
4849 Alpha Road
Dallas, TX 75244
972-852-1000
The SpeedStream 8600 provides businesses with a comprehensive network interface that delivers toll-quality voice, fax, and broadband data over a single DSL line. Up to 24 voice ports connect the SpeedStream 8600 to existing telephone handsets, fax machines, PBXs, and other customer telephony equipment. A 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet module provides a LAN connection with comprehensive routing and IP address management for continuous, high-speed DSL access to the Internet or a corporate network. Dynamic bandwidth allocation gives users throughout an enterprise the bandwidth they need, when they need it, without wasting network resources during low call volume periods.

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GenView EMS
General Bandwidth
12303 Technology Blvd.
Austin, TX 78727
877-818-2160

The General Bandwidth GenView Element Managmeent System is a carrier class voice over broadband management system designed to meet the rigors of five-nines service availability. GenView is a full-featured, standards-based EMS for managing G6 voice gateway systems, that lowers service provider operational costs and vastly simplifies voice over broadband service provisioning and maintenaince.

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PowerAccess
Natural MicroSystems
100 Crossing Blvd.
Framingham, MA 01702
508-620-9300
NMS' PowerAccess architecture is the foundation of high-capacity hardware and software platforms that enable lower-cost, higher-density network access products. The architecture features the PowerAccess Bus -- which doubles the number of voice ports available in standard CompactPCI designs. This bus can be partitioned to link groups of PowerAccess platforms forgateways scalable to more than 10,000 ports.

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VitalLink
Netopia
14285 Midway Road Suite 350
Addison, Texas 75001
510-814-5000
VitalLink provides small business owners and operators with management tools that enable more efficient business processes. Existing services include remote video monitoring and archiving, online purchasing, high-speed connectivity equipment, and a host of industry-specific community features. VitalLink acts as an application aggregator for small businesses and provides the broadband infrastructure for the delivery of its services using Netopia's DSL equipment and Web platform.

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CiscoWorks 2000 Voice Manager 2.0
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
800-553-6387
CiscoWorks2000 Voice Manager 2.0 (CVM) is a client-server, Web-based voice management and reporting solution. The application provides enhanced capabilities to configure and provision voice ports, and create and modify dial plans on voice-enabled Cisco routers for voice over IP (VoIP), voice over Frame Relay (VoFR), and voice over ATM (VoATM) network deployments. Products managed include the Cisco 1700, 2600, and 3600 series, MC3810 series, AS5300 series universal access server, and 7200 and 7500 series routers.

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@Phone 2000
@PHONE Telecom
3435 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 2440
Los Angeles, CA 90010
82-2-3404-9164
@PHONE Telecom is a Phone-to-Phone Internet telephony service provider. Based on "@number", a proprietary Internet telephone numbering system, and revolutionary IP phone named @Phone2000 that operate without a PC, @PHONE Telecom provides affordable long-distance/International call service and a great variety of add-on communication services.

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AN-24/AN-28
Accelerated Networks, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
301 Science Dr.
Moorpark, CA 93021
800-989-0763
The Accelerator AN-24 and AN-28 Integrated Access Devices (IADs) enable service providers to offer both voice and data services for small business and branch office customers over a single access line. A single AN-24 or AN-28 supports four or eight analog voice connections and one high-speed data connection via Ethernet or Frame Relay over either an SDSL, ADSL, or T1 access line.

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Atium Gateway
AG Communications
P.O. Box 52179
Phoenix, AZ 85072-2179
888-888-AGCS
The ATIUM GateWay product family provides a complete end-to-end xDSL solution. It includes everything service providers need to offer xDSL to bandwidth-hungry consumers: Modems, POTS splitters, hubs, switches, software, security, and network management.

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Frontera 2000
Avail Networks, Inc.
305 East Eisenhower Pkwy.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
734-761-5005
Avail Networks provides next-generation multiservice access systems that combine IAD, mini-DSLAM, ATM switch, and IP router functions with standards-based QoS for integrated data, voice, and video services to multi-subscriber environments. Avail's Frontera IDCs incorporate hardware-based ATM cell switching and Direct Voice Integration enabling robust Voice over Broadband services.

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IP IQ
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc.
1850 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
650-687-3300
Copper Mountain Networks, Inc. has extended its IP IQ feature set with IP-based voice service enhancements in its family of CopperEdge DSL concentrators. IP IQ voice functionality enables Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and service providers to offer enhanced Voice over DSL services by completing local calls through the CopperEdge, isolating and securing IP voice virtual private networks (VPNs) from data, and mapping IP voice to ATM QoS.

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OmniMAX
Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc.
1465 North McDowell Blvd.
Petaluma, CA, USA 94954
707-794-7700
The OmniMAX product family is comprised of the following: TransMAX, an Optical Network Access platform for SONET/SDH transport and metro ring solutions. The AccessMAX family of multiservice access platforms provides global local loop voice, data, and broadband DSL solutions. The need for integrated voice and data access at the customer premises is met with the PreMax platforms. End-to-end provisioning and maintenance is provided with AFC 's integrated element management system, . And AFC's Atlas system support team provides complete end-to-end professional services, including system installation, turn-up, and operations maintenance and provisioning.

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CopperCom Gateway
CopperCom
2860 De La Cruz Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
408-987-8500
CopperCom's award-winning gateway is the core of the company's voice over broadband solution -- providing a complete portfolio for packet voice access. The CopperCom Gateway is the only fully redundant, NEBS-compliant, carrier-class system available today. The gateway converts packet voice back to circuit-switched voice for transport to a local exchange -- transparently passing voice calls and calling features from the local exchange switch to subscribers.

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Total Access 750
ADTRAN
901 Explorer Blvd.
P.O. Box 140000
Huntsville, AL 35814
800-9-ADTRAN
As the competition for dial tone heightens, providers are well served with integrated access devices that allow cost-effective deployment of voice and data at the customer's premises. ADTRAN's Total Access 750 series of products is the ideal solution. This carrier class integrated access device allows combined voice and data traffic over a single T1 terminating at the end-user's site.

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Stargazer
ADC
P.O. Box 1101
Minneapolis, MN 55440
800-370-9670
The StarGazer Element Management System (EMS) provides end-to-end management for the Avidia System and Campus-RS product lines. Based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the Java-based graphical user interface allows users to configure, monitor, and diagnose both CO equipment and CPE, as well as provision individual circuits. StarGazer simplifies element management by enabling users to manage an unlimited number of Avidia elements. There are three major components to StarGazer. The toolbar provides access to all of the tools and features of StarGazer. IP Discovery displays the network elements detected by StarGazer. The FrontPanel is a complete tool for configuring and monitoring a single Avidia or Campus-RS Star system.

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UniPorte
Mapletree Networks
315 Norwood Park South
Norwood, MA 02062
781-751-2400
Mapletree Networks' UniPorte Architecture allows Mapletree to offer products that process any network access connection type: Data, voice, VoDSL, wireless data, ISDN or fax, on any port. As part of the UniPorte Architecture the VoDSL gateway acts as a bridge between DSL networks and the PSTN. The gateway converts DSL voice packets (AAL2 cells) into TDM PCM (pulse code modulation) streams and sends them to a PSTN network. Conversely, the gateway takes PCM voice calls received from PSTN (via the class 5 switch), converts them into AAL2 cells, and sends them to a DSLAM for transmission over an ADSL network.

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PL-2000
AccessLan Communications
2040 Fortune Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131
888-411-4345
AccessLan's PL-2000 is an IP-aware, intelligent DSLAM or i-SLAM that is a class-leading, multiservice DSL access platform designed for use in Central Offices (COs). Based on AccessLan's Internet Scaling Architecture (ISA), the PL-2000 is designed to provide highly scalable and highly flexible access networks. The PL-2000's scalable design terminates up to 240 DSL access lines per PL-2000 access shelf, and up to 960 lines within a single seven-foot bay, providing high density service.

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VP100 Family
VoicePump, Inc.
299 California Blvd.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
650-323-3232
VoicePump's VP100 family of mixed-signal digital signal processors (DSPs)are designed to address the voiceband processing needs of low- to medium-density voice gateways and IADs for Voice over Broadband applications. A wide variety of speech coding and telephony algorithms may be performed upon commands issued by a host processor. The VP100 family, with its included DSP firmware, can be used as a DSP "black box" since no DSP programming is required of the user.

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Net to Net Technologies Inc.
112 Corporate Dr., St. 1
Pease International Tradeport
Portsmouth, NH 03801
877-638-2638
Net to Net differentiates itself by removing ATM from the picture all together, transporting voice and data within Ethernet packets between the IAD and the DSLAM. At the DSLAM, the voice is converted back to a standard T1 voice circuit (T1 CAS) for easy connectivity to any existing phone switch.

RCP-700
Rapid5 Networks
180 Baytech Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
866-872-7435
The RCP-700 is a carrier-grade convergence platform capable of providing a smooth evolution from today's PSTN to the eventual all-packet network. The RCP-700 offers the unique benefits of pre-switch offload and pre-switch packetization capabilities, offloading the network of Internet traffic before it hits the first switch. In addition to offering traditional trunk-side offload, the RCP-700's PSO and PSP capabilities address one of the most pressing concerns facing today's major carriers: Accommodating explosive growth in the long-hold Internet connections that clog Class 5 switches that were designed for short-hold voice calls.

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Crescendo Bulk Call Generator
Ameritec Corporation
760 Arrow Grand Circle
Covina, CA 91722
626-915-5441
Simulate VoDSL subscribers calling under load conditions with Ameritec's Crescendo bulk call generator. Crescendo's are used worldwide to test circuit and packet switched products and networks with analog, T1/E1 CAS, ISDN -- PRI/BRI, and SS7 physical interfaces, and can be controlled under a single TCP/IP session while maintaining individual line/channel control.

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3220-H-W
Cayman Systems, Inc.
296 Concord Road
Billerica, MA 01821
800-473-4776
The Cayman 3220-H-W is the first ADSL gateway to offer the many benefits of the fully integrated HomeRF specification (www.homerf.org) and accelerate the deployment of broadband and integrated wireless solutions to small offices and homes. The Cayman 3220-H-W equips broadband service providers with the ability to spur the rapid deployment of new high-value broadband services to users seeking the flexibility and ease-of-use of a wireless networking environment. As a zero-configuration gateway with simple plug and play install, Web browser configuration, integrated modem, and an integrated four-port hub that supports many devices, this one-box solution requires no additional software.

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OmniAXS VoiceHub 803RE
IPAXS Corporation
5802 Benjamin Center Dr., Ste. 105
Tampa FL 33634
877-999-9985
The OmniAXS VoiceHub 803RE is a customer premise integrated access device that offers the versatility of DSL, T1 and Ethernet interfaces. By delivering the most efficient management of user bandwidth, it enables the ideal network for service providers seeking to minimize costs, space requirements, network management, and personnel expenses.

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TB200 Gateway
TollBridge Technologies
3121 Jay St.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-585-2100
The TB200 is a carrier class Local Exchange Gateway that connects to the CLASS 5 Switch using a V2.5 or GR-303 over a DS1 or STS-1 interface, and connects to the broadband router networks using a DS3 or STM1/OC-3 ATM interface. The TB200 is compatible with all forms of broadband: Cable, DSL, T1, fiber, and wireless. Circuit-switched voice traffic coming from the Class 5 switch is packetized and sent to an IAD.

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