ADTRAN 810 Plus manual Flexible Network Management and Maintainability

Chapter 1. Introduction

Flexible Network Management and Maintainability

Several network management methods are available for the

ATLAS 810PLUS, including SNMP support. VT 100 and Telnet are also of- fered, providing detailed system configuration through an easy-to-use menu system. The terminal interface is secured by six levels of password protection with varying degrees of management privileges. The terminal in- terface is accessed locally or remotely using either the EIA-232 Chain In port on the rear of the unit or the Telnet interface. The 10BaseT interface on the Base Unit provides an Ethernet connection for SNMP and Telnet connec- tions.

Additionally, T-Watch PRO, ADTRAN’s Microsoft® Windows®-based GUI management system, allows end-to-end management with downstream ADTRAN T1 products. User configurations can be preserved in non-volatile memory and duplicated for managing multiple ATLAS implementations. ATLAS also supports FLASH upgrades for future enhancements. You can remotely download software using TFTP or XMODEM.

The ATLAS 810PLUSfront panel contains an extensive array of LEDs for alarm and status information pertaining to the system and the individual modules.

Several test capabilities allow you to diagnose the health of your T1, PRI, or BRI circuits without additional test equipment. Standard Bantam test jacks located on the ATLAS 810PLUS rear panel also allow you to use external test equipment to monitor traffic. Tests include local, remote, and V.54 loop- backs utilizing the 511, QRSS, all zeros, and all ones test patterns.

Digital Access Cross-Connect System (DACS)

Inherent in the ATLAS 810PLUS architecture is the ability to cross connect, or DACS, up to thirty-four T1 circuits. DACSing allows the assignment and re- distribution, or grooming, of any DS0 on any T1 circuit to any other DS0 on any of the thirty-four T1 circuits in the system. For optimizing network re- sources, any of five dedicated connection maps can be invoked manually or automatically, based on the time of day and day of the week (see Figure 1-3).

ATLAS 810PLUS

Figure 1-3. Digital Access Cross-Connect System (DACS)

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