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Product Brief

Solution Description

Rapid service deployment is the key to grabbing market share, the lifeblood of carrier business economics. At times the infrastructure needed to support end user services is not in place, creating delays that cost millions in long-term lost revenues. To overcome these ills carriers with access to wholesale T1/E1 circuits can reuse the TDM network to bridge the bandwidth gap and continue deploying NGN services in areas where the infrastructure is developing.

Problem	Issue	Impact	Our Solution
Service Providers	Lack of installed fiber for	Millions of dollars lost	Re-use installed TDM
		every day in potential	network for transparent
are Losing	backhaul is slowing
		long-term revenue	Ethernet backhaul
Market Share	customer acquisition
		streams
Complex	Complex equipment is	Slows the pace of	Transparent Ethernet
Network		network expansion and	bridging with QoS
	installed for simple
Infrastructure		makes troubleshooting	installs and maintains
	backhaul applications
Installations		problems difficult	easier than MPLS & PBB
The Need to	Services are installed	Customer acquisition	Re-use depreciated TDM
	with new equipment		network and postpone
Improve		becomes a capital
	raising customer		forklift upgrades until
Profitability		intensive exercise
	acquisition costs		economics dictate

Unique Selling Position

The IpLink™ Model 2888 Multi-Megabit Inverse Mux is the only transparent Ethernet Bridge offering BOTH jumbo Ethernet frame and Active Layer 2 QoS at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.

Top FAQs

Q. Does the Inverse Mux support TDM over IP?

A. The Inverse Mux transports Ethernet/IP traffic over TDM. It is not designed to transport TDM traffic over Ethernet/IP.

Q. Is the Inverse Mux offered with -48VDC power?

A. The Inverse is available with an internal or an external power supply.

Q. Does the Inverse Mux support both clear channel and fractional T1/E1 operation?

A. Yes. Each T1/E1 circuit can be configured for clear channel or for fractional operation independently, facilitating incremental bandwidth growth.

Q. What is the Jumbo Ethernet frame size supported?

A. The maximum jumbo Ethernet frame supported today is 2,072 bytes and 9,216 bytes via free software upgrade.

Q. Does the Inverse Mux support fractional T1/E1 circuits.

A. Yes. Fractional circuits are supported on all T1/E1 ports and can be used to incrementally grow the bandwidth.

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