Alcatel-Lucent Intelligent Services Access Manager manual Isam Voice components

With the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family, you can also support video penetration in flexible deep-fiber scenarios. This en- ables the optimum reuse of the copper plant and improved subscriber high-capacity reach. With ISAM Voice, the Alcatel-Lucent ISAM family also supports the deploy- ment of legacy PSTN interfaces and NGN/IMS media gateway functionality over the same platform in order to facilitate network convergence without discontinuity in subscriber offerings.

Figure 1. ISAM Voice components

ISAM Voice components

As illustrated in Figure 1, the main hardware components of Alcatel-Lucent ISAM Voice are:

•an integrated voice packet server (NVPS) for H.248 signaling that interfaces with the NGN/IMS network through an H.248/Megaco signaling interface. In the case of SIP signaling, the user agent is hosted on the line termination card.

•Line termination (LT) boards to interconnect with POTS lines, ISDN lines (basic access line terminations, BRA)

•Splitter cards

Voice Server (NVPS) POTS (NPOT) ISDN (NBAT) Splitters

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