6Visitor and Community Network Access Concentrator Installation Guide
System Overview | The Visitor and Community Network provides fast Internet connectivity |
| and fast corporate access to |
| an existing cabling infrastructure and supports all Plain Old Telephone |
| Services (POTS). |
| The Visitor and Community Network System serves the following |
| applications: |
| ■ Multiple Dwelling Units (MDU) |
| ■ MDUs include apartment houses and hotels. |
| The customers that benefit include tenants and hotel guests who |
| receive Internet services and use |
| convenient connections than currently possible. Business travelers |
| can access corporate intranets at faster speeds. IT service providers |
| and hotel operators can expand |
| gaming, etc.) in conjunction with billing services without forfeiting |
| POTS revenues. NSPs and ISPs benefit by expanding service |
| boundaries to |
| ■ Multiple Tenant Units (MTU) |
| ■ MTUs comprise mainly office complexes. |
| In MTU application existing LAN infrastructure can be extended to |
| 4 kilo feet to locations currently lacking LAN cabling through the |
| Visitor and Community Network system. |
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VCN Access | The function of the VCN AC is to combine data and analog voice in the |
Concentrator | direction of the VCN APs (VCN Access Point) and to split voice and data in |
Functionality | the direction from the VCN APs. Analog voice (telephone) is routed to the |
| analog PBX. Data is transferred to the Ethernet Switch. The VCN AC |
| allows simultaneous transfer of voice and data, up to 10 Mbps, on each |
| telephone extension line. |
| The VCN AC works with the SuperStack II Switch 1100 and 3300. |
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Operational | Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the VCN AC LED indicators and connectors |
Controls | on the front and back panels. |