THE SITUATION
Nortel’s enterprise customers in Latin
America are connecting to public telephone
networks via expensive, hard to manage
analog lines. They are looking to reduce
costs and simplify network management by
migrating their networks to digital facilities.
Phone companies are under pressure to offload
voice traffic from their end-office switches
by migrating it from analog to digital
trunks that are easier to deploy and manage.
THE CHALLENGE
- Many telephone companies
and service providers use PSTNs that
rely on CAS signaling, which is incompatible
with ISDN-based PBX and IP-PBX applications.
- Nortel’s PBX and IP-PBX users want
to connect their packet-based ISDN
applications to R2 networks.
- Nortel’s PBX and IP-PBX
vendors want to make new services,
such as voice messaging and video conferencing,
available to their customers.
- Constraints
on capital spending are driving phone
companies to maximize their voice switching
assets by continuing to use their existing
R2 digital facilities.
- Network management
tools for both the IP and PSTN networks
need to be integrated on one platform
to simplify network operations.
THE SOLUTION
Now, Nortel’s PBX and IP-PBX
resellers can take advantage of the synergy
between Nortel Networks’ PBX products
and Encore Networks’ enterprise signaling
adapters. Nortel’s BCM™ and Norstar™
products provide connectivity to packet-
based ISDN at the PBX sites, while Encore’s
SignalPath™ 201-SA (SP201-SA) enables
signaling conversion over digital networks
based on R2. The SP201-SA is a cost-effective
solution for completing the seamless
transfer of voice and data traffic across
legacy networks, offering many features:
- Two models available
- Very small footprint
enables it to be easily co-located
with PBX and IP-PBX equipment
- Standard RJ48
and BNC connections
- Supports up to four
E1 ports on up to two trunks
- Supports
a large number of country-specific
R2 variants
- Easy to install and maintain
KEY PRODUCT BENEFITS
- The SP201-SA is
a Nortel-Approved Product
- Designed to
provide low-cost, end-to-end connectivity
for the low-to-medium PBX/IP-PBX market
- Opens new market opportunities in
countries with networks based on legacy
R2
- Simple
solution for bridging CAS and ISDN
networks
- Reduces costs by eliminating the
need for separate voice and data lines
- Consolidates
system setup and administration onto
a single management platform
NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS
BCM network diagram
Norstar network diagram
SUMMARY
Encore Networks offers an attractive
value proposition with its versatile
SignalPath™ 201-SA solution, in tandem
with Nortel’s BCM™ and Norstar™ products:
- The SP201-SA handles seamless signaling
conversions for PBX and IP-PBX applications.
- The SP201-SA enables new business
opportunities in multiple international
markets.
- Encore provides support for
an extensive library of signaling protocols
and variants.
- The SP201-SA is based
on the proven SignalPath™ signaling
software.
- Encore’s SP201-SA enables Nortel’s
BCM™ and Norstar™ products to offer
a true E1 R2 interface to PBX and IP-PBX
customers.
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