Engage Communication, a company offering T1/E1 circuit to packet conversion and backhaul, announced is plans to ship the new IPTube G4 series of solutions.

 

The IPTube G4 is available with one to four T1/E1 interfaces and a 10/100 BaseT Full/Half Duplex Ethernet Interface. Also, an optional integrated 5 port QOS/VLAN/Rate Limiting Layer-2 Ethernet switch is available.

 

The G4 will fulfill the needs of Cellular Base Station Backhaul, PBX (News - Alert) trunk conversion and communication network installations such as public safety, transport or other government private networks. Also, it will help in adaptation of Metro-Ethernet networks to interface to existing TDM connections.

 

It provides support for all signaling options including PRI ISDN, SS7, ESF, SLC-96, CCIS, proprietary out of band and robbed bit signaling. The solution can be remotely managed either via secure Telnet or SNMP. Encrypted communications are delivered between Secure Socket Shell (SSH) clients and the Management interface through SSH.

 

G4 also has a 5 port Ethernet switch that can provide Ethernet QOS with up to 4 priority queues. Mobile operators benefit from the VLAN/QOS Ethernet switch functionality as they move to upgrade their existing circuits to 3G and 4G services. WAN bandwidth can be reserved for the T1/E1 interface real time circuit extension in the switch through an in-built rate limiting capability.

 

G4 is an exceptional choice for embedded solutions, tower and pole mount or transportable applications, as it has a small foot print and consumes low power. The G4 enclosure measures 5.5" X 7" X 1.5” (1U Rack).

 

Four T1/E1 circuits are integrated into one IP packet stream through the SuperTube option. The SuperTube facilitates the transport of multiple T1/E1 Circuits over packet connections with limited packet processing capabilities such as Wireless Ethernet.

 

Mark Doyle, president of Engage, said that the typical way to extend E1 circuits across packet networks is for each E1 to be encapsulated into individual IP packet streams.

 

Doyle added that the SuperTube Sized IPTube reduces the encapsulation overhead bandwidth and the packet frequency by 75 percent.