Telco Systems, a BATM Company, Introduces its E...

HANOVER, Germany, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Visit Telco Systems at CeBIT, Hall 15 Booth C13

    Telco Systems, a BATM Company, introduced today at CeBIT, their EdgeGate
CPE GW-482 VoIP Media Gateway, thereby broadening their end-to-end FTTH
'Triple-Play' solution to include Independent Telephone Companies (ILEC's)
along with utilities and municipalities.



    The new extended temperature EdgeGate CPE GW-482 gateway, part of Telco
Systems' Active Ethernet FTTH solution, is available as either an outdoor
unit or indoor customer premises device. The outdoor model is pre-configured
in an environmentally controlled enclosure for mounting on the outside of a
building or home for service provider access.



    "Our extensive experience in design, development and manufacture of media
gateways and carrier-grade transport and access devices has enabled us to
keep the cost low and the reliability and feature-set high for the EdgeGate
CPE GW-482," said David Lee, Vice President Marketing Telco Systems. "It was
developed by building on the field-proven technology of our EdgeGate CPE
GW-282 series, which is currently deployed at thousands of homes and small
business worldwide." Lee said: "We developed this new lower-cost solution for
service providers who may not need the full feature set of the original
EdgeGate CPE."



    "It's the ideal solution for open access applications in which multiple
service providers are involved in providing VoIP voice service, video and
high-speed Internet access," said Irit Gillath, Vice President of IP Product
Management for Telco Systems. "To meet this need, the new EdgeGate CPE GW-482
is configurable with or without voice or internal routing capabilities." She
said: "We developed this new product based on customer demand for new
deployments."



    The Telco Systems EdgeGate CPE GW-482 supports various combinations of 0,
2 or 4 analogue voice lines (VoIP FXS ports) and up to 16 10/100BaseTX 
Ethernet ports (basic unit supports 8 ports). The optical uplink can be 
configured with either a Fast or Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, and supports 
either a single bi-directional fibre, which can cut fibre costs in half, or
traditional fibre-pair.



    The EdgeGate CPE GW-482 has full wire speed Layer 2 switching and Layer 3
IP routing capabilities, allowing for better Quality of Service (QoS), better
service type differentiation, and improved services for video streaming and
VoIP. It provides high quality voice using enhanced Layer 3 QoS mechanisms
such as TOS, rate limiting and traffic shaping as well as 802.1p for voice
priority, 802.1q VLAN tagging. It supports all major VoIP protocols, which
include SIP, MGCP, and H.323, as well as T.38 for fax over IP, and has gone
through interoperability certification with leading softswitch providers.



    For video services, the EdgeGate CPE GW-482 supports IGMPv2 (including a
snooping feature for video streaming support) to allow the service provider
to offer IP video. Analogue video is also supported.



    EdgeGate CPE GW-482's modular architecture simplifies field maintenance
of the outdoor unit, virtually eliminating the need to haul the unit away if
repair is needed. A unique battery backup with recharging system and Lifeline
POTS support guarantee that telephone service will stay up in emergency
situations when external power fails. It also provides mass upgrade and
configuration tools using TFTP server, so that upgrade and configuration
changes can be done automatically in mass deployment. It supports spanning
tree protocol, which provides high redundancy and availability in a ring
network architecture even when using real-time applications such as voice.



    When used in conjunction with Telco Systems' T5 Compact IP aggregation
switch and T6Pro core switch, EdgeGate CPE GW-482 provides an end-to-end FTTH
solution from the Central Office to the customers home or office.



About Telco Systems a BATM Company

    BATM is a world leader in the design and supply of IP packet-based
systems such as high-capacity, self-routing switches with extensive QoS
capabilities. For more information, visit the BATM Advanced Communications
web site at www.telco.com



    Telco Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of BATM Advanced
Communications (London Stock Exchange ticker symbol: BVC). Based in Foxboro,
Massachusetts, the company provides industry-leading networking solutions to
the carrier and enterprise markets. Telco Systems' focus is to maximise the
power of customers' networks by integrating transport, access, and packet
technologies onto industry-leading platforms, therefore fully meeting today's
and tomorrow's network requirements


    
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