3rd Party Remote Call Monitoring Feature

A supplier of testing, monitoring, and analysis equipment for telecommunications networks recently announced the addition of a new product to its lineup.

GL Communications (News - Alert) Inc. announced the launch of its T1 E1 Analysis Hardware tScan16 board that can scan T1 E1 lines for conditions such as frame errors, bipolar violations, alarms, frequency, and power levels. For companies that need to examine and maintain the integrity of voice and data sent across such lines, boards such as this can help provide information relevant to diagnosing problems and retaining consistency of transmission. Jagdish Vadalia, a senior manager for product development at GL Communications, provided a quote about the technical aspects of the new board.

"GL's tScan16 is a high-density T1 E1 board with 16 ports and the newer PCIe (x1) bus interface," Vadalia said. "The sixteen T1 E1 ports are receive-only ports optimized for high performance voice and data capture, monitoring, and analysis requirements. tScan16 extends the family of GL's T1 E1 platforms with greater density, increased ports, and reduced power."

The company indicates that it has made the boards capable of easily interacting with the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems. They are available with software that presents a simple-to-use GUI for both T1 and E1 interfaces.

In addition to the conditions listed above in which the board can monitor, Vadalia also commented on its ability to analyze "ISDN, SS7, Frame Relay and Multilink Frame Relay, PPP and Multilink PPP, HDLC, and many more protocols."

The GL Communications website notes that T1 and E1 carriers are used across the world to carry voice and data. They are reportedly popular technologies because of their reliability, flexibility, and manageability and provide a number of digital channels operators can use to transmit signals. The technology also allows channels to be combined to achieve higher bandwidth than lines would be able to carry separately. Their widespread use makes availability an ever-present need for telecom customers, and it makes analysis boards such as the tScan16 essential to continually provide availability.