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Universal, Cost-Effective PBX/IP-PBX Solutions:
Nortel’s BCM and Norstar Products with Encore’s SP201-SA

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.

SP201-SA Models

SP201-SA Product Info

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 Configuration

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Norstar Network Configuration

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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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