Litton FiberCom Announces New High-Density T1/E1 Concentrator for ATM.ROANOKE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1997-- Release of CAM 7665(TM) ATM Communications Access Multiplexer FiberCom(R), a division of Litton, has announced the release of the CAM 7665(TM) ATM Communications Access Multiplexer for delivering high-density T1/E1 services over an ATM network. The CAM 7665 has been optimized to deliver voice, video, and other constant bit rate (CBR (1) (Computer-Based Reference) Reference materials accessible by computer in order to help people do their jobs quicker. For example, this database on disk! (2) (Constant Bit Rate) A uniform transmission rate. ) services over an ATM backbone while setting new industry standards for availability and for ease in set-up and operation. With the integration capacity to deliver more than 80 T1/FT1/E1 connections over ATM in a single chassis, the CAM 7665 meets the challenge of reliably overlaying voice and other CBR services onto data intensive ATM networks to further reduce the cost of ownership for ATM. "No fear T1 networking over ATM is what the CAM 7665 delivers to our customers," stated Lou Tabor, President of FiberCom. "The wait is over for reliable Voice over ATM. We have accomplished higher availability in the CAM 7665 than any other ATM access product to date and we're not through yet. Our customers deserve the right product at the right price. Designing ATM products that are cost-effective, easy to install with very low maintenance is what FiberCom does best. And we've done it again with the 7665." The CAM 7665 leads the market in meeting stringent, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. requirements for T1 networking applications with its highly redundant and fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. architecture and support of SVCs. In addition to its hot swap/hot insertion capabilities for all modules and power supplies, the CAM 7665 features redundancy of its ATM cell and control busses, redundant CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and ATM network UNI interface modules, and redundant power supplies for minimal down time with automatic recovery in the unlikely event of hardware failure. Alarms and front panel indicators provide extensive built-in test and fault detection with reporting. The CAM 7665 has been designed to meet an estimated mean time between failures (MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) The average time a component works without failure. It is the number of failures divided by the hours under observation. MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures ) of 25,000 hours with an estimated mean time to repair (MTTR (Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time To Restore) The average time it takes to repair a failed component. See reliability. MTTR - Mean Time To Recovery ) of 10 minutes. All CAM 7665 service modules are accessible from the front of the chassis. Ease of installation and operation are key features in the CAM 7665. To eliminate the hassle of PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. set-up, FiberCom's unique SMART CBR CONNECT(TM) provides a user-friendly interface to create ATM connections for CBR services. From one location, a network manager can link the cards, ports and channels of a source CAM 7665 with the cards, ports and channels of destination CAM 7665 units across the ATM network. Because standard SVC (1) (Switched Virtual Circuit) A network connection that is established at the time the transmission is required and disconnected when the session is completed. signaling is used, ATM switches in the network pass the signals along to the CAM units. DS0, NxDS0 T1, and E1 Circuits are emulated over the ATM network in structured and unstructured mode using the ATM Forum A membership organization founded in 1991 to promote ATM networking technology. It worked with ANSI and the ITU to set standards. Its first specification in 1992 defined the User-Network Interface (UNI). In 2004, the Forum merged with the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance. Circuit Emulation Specification, Version 2 for CBR traffic. Another significant feature of the CAM 7665 is its ability to work with a variety of network timing methods. The CAM 7665 supports both synchronous (network, loop timing, external timing, internal timing, and synchronous residual time stamp or SRTS SRTS Safe Routes to School (also seen as SR2S) SRTS Synchronous Residual Time Stamp (ATM Forum) SRTS Secondary Request to Send (ITU-T) SRTS Service Request Tracking System ) as well as asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. service clock timing for CBR services. For asynchronous timing, the CAM 7665 features an adaptive clock recovery method to provide CBR clock timing. In the tradition of FiberCom ATM access products, the CAM 7665 touts standards compliance and multi-vendor interoperability. The unit is SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. manageable via HP OpenView, via Telnet, or via local monitor console-based management. The CAM 7665 offers a scalable migration path designed to accommodate network expansion as part of FiberCom's commitment to meet customer needs as standards and service requirements evolve. General product availability for the CAM 7665 is January 1998. Basic 8-port configurations are priced under $30,000 per unit, averaging less than $50.00 per DS0 installed cost for higher port configurations. FiberCom is a recognized industry leader in ATM access products. The CAM 7665 complements FiberCom's CAM family of WAN products including CAM 7640/7650(TM) Multiservice ATM Access Multiplexer, CAM 7630(TM) Integrated Access Multiplexer for T1 services, and CAMVision(TM) 7610 MJPEG MJPEG Motion Joint Photographic Experts Group Video codec. For more information on the CAM 7665, please visit our web site at www.fibercom.com (under Product Information), send e-mail to cam7665@fibercom.com, or call our New Product Information Center at 540-510-3322. FiberCom is a registered trademark of Litton Systems, Inc. CAM, CAMVision, and SMART CBR CONNECT are trademarks of Litton Systems, Inc. -0- For more information concerning this release, please contact Janie Osterhaus, Marketing Communications Manager, at 540-510-3256 (jdo@fibercom.com) or Gary Mangus, ATM Access Products Manager, at 540-510-3236 (mangus@fibercom.com). Press or other contacts wishing to schedule a technical teleconference about the CAM 7665, please contact Janie Osterhaus to arrange a time, convenient to your schedule, to talk with our applications engineers. CONTACT: Litton FiberCom Janie Osterhaus, 540/510-3256 |
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