DEFINITY ECS Advantages
Integrating
Sometimes the most important function of the DEFINITY ECS is its control and coordination of all your desktop tools and shared resources. It not only communicates with most networks and equipment throughout the world, but unifies them by translating protocols and standards as necessary. The system is designed to accommodate multimedia and network integration tools. It also offers many features that integrate computer and telephone. DEFINITY ECS’s integrating capabilities and its association with many
Reliable/Recoverable
DEFINITY ECS is inherently reliable by design. That reliability can be enhanced by redundant configurations (see "Configuring for Reliability/Recoverability" in this chapter). Every essential component in the system is designed to be duplicated. For these reasons, adjacent systems (network, power supply, etc.) are far more likely than the DEFINITY ECS itself to fail. If something connected to the system should fail, the DEFINITY ECS keeps working until those systems are restored. If the disturbance is great enough that the DEFINITY ECS is also disabled, the system’s modular design provides you many options for getting your communications back into service quickly.
State of the Art
DEFINITY ECS is the first telecommunications system to manage bandwidth precisely, which allows it to handle high bandwidth multimedia information while still conserving resources. It is also the first telecommunications system to use RISC (reduced instruction set computer) processors. The system is designed to accommodate anticipated innovations such as ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode).
Issue 5 January 1998 |
