Enable
One to Four T1 interfaces for T1 over IP Voice and Data
The IP•Tube G4 T1 is available with one to four T1 interfaces
and single 10/100 BaseT Full/Half Duplex Ethernet Interfaces. An optional integrated 5 port QOS/VLAN/Rate Limiting Layer-2 Ethernet switch is available.
An Ethernet Switch Option
provides transparent LAN bridging, user data bandwidth and access
control through rate limiting and port-based VLAN filtering and tagging.
The
T1 interfaces have configurations that for provide independent
protocol, compression, packet sizing, buffering, framing,
coding and channel settings. Enable additional T1 Ports as needs
expand using a software-based license key. The protocols supported
are IPTube, CESoIP, and HDLCoIP.-
- Transparent
Interconnect
- The
IP•Tube G4 T1’s transparent operation maintains the
proprietary signaling required to support PBX features such as
call conferencing, call forwarding, caller ID and SS7. Legacy
phone equipment investment is preserved. Transparent support for
Modem, Fax, or Data circuits. Voice quality is not compromised.
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IP•Tube
G4 T1 Standard Features
Assured Delivery Protocol
In
order to assure high quality communications over links with
intermittent or noisy performance, such as Wireless or Broadband over
Power Line, the IP•Tube G4 T1 employs Engage’s robust Assured Delivery Protocol with the following benefits:
• Packet out of sequence detection and re-sequencing
• Duplicate skipping
• Lost packet retransmission with configured delay.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - DHCP
The IP•Tube G4 T1
can be configured to obtain its Internet Protocol network parameters:
IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DNS; from a local DHCP
server.
Domain Name Addressing
IP•Tube G4 T1
can be configured to use a Domain Name for the remote IP•Tube in place
of a fixed IP address. Supports mobile multi service provider
installations with ease.
Dynamic DNS
IP•Tubes can be configured to register their IP address with Dynamic
Domain Name Servers for discovery by the IPTube at the other end of the
T1 circuit. DDNS support combined with DHCP make installations
Name-based which is very easy to setup and maintain when compared to
Static IP addressing.
Secure Socket Shell - SSH
Engage’s Secure Socket Shell, which is based upon industry proven Open
SSH and FIPS 140 approved Open SSL version 2.0, provides secure
encrypted communications between SSH clients such as OpenSSH,
SecureCRT, and PuTTY and the IPTube’s Command Line Interface.
SNMP
The IP•Tube UNO T1
is able to be fully managed with SNMP via standard and private MIBs.
Large scale deployments of IPTubes with centralized management have
made SNMP support a priority. SNMP Traps for error events enable
proactive service fault isolation.
Full T1 Connection Across Two ADSL Lines
The IP•Tube G4 T1’s two Ethernet interfaces are able utilize
two ADSL Ethernet Modems, that have opposite high speed direction,
to transport a T1's symmetrical bandwidth.
Service
Quality Packet Prioritizing
The IP•Tube G4 T1 uses the Type of Service byte in the IP packets
to prioritize the encapsulated T1 frames. The setting of the TOS
byte can be used to ensure that the real time TDM data from the IP•Tube G4 T1 is ensured high priority.
VPN
Network Management
Interconnecting the IP•Tube G4 T1 through a Virtual Private
Network with a sufficient real time committed information rate ensures
that the required quality of service is provisioned. The IP•Tube G4 T1's second LAN interface, which requires the Switch Option, provides a management port when
the LAN1 interface is connected to a VPN. Each Ethernet
LAN interface features independent IP network configurations.
IP•Tube
G4 T1 Options
Ethernet Switch OPTION - SWITCH
The IP•Tube G4 T1
is available with a five port 10/100 Ethernet QoS switch integrating a
high-performance switching fabric with four priority queues. Advanced
features include 802.1p/IPv4/IPv6 traffic classification, full IEEE
802.1Q VLAN, RMON, SNMP, Port Monitoring and Layer 2 firewall.
QoS determined by destination MAC address, port ID, IEEE 802.1p and
multimedia traffic tags, IPv4 Type of Service (TOS), and Differentiated
Services (DiffServ).
Rate Limiter
The Ethernet switch Ingress and/or Egress Rate Limiter option enables
the reservation of the bandwidth for time-sensitive T1 Over IP real
time connections. Required for applications where the LAN traffic can
exceed the WAN bandwidth required by the T1 over IP/Ethernet
application. The data rate limit range is 128 kilobits to 64 Megabits
in binary increments.
The
Rate Limiter option limits the WAN bandwidth utilized by the LAN1 to
LAN2 bridge. Rate Limiting the traffic enables the reservation of the
WAN bandwidth for time the sensitive T1 Over IP real time connections.
Great for Wireless WAN T1 applications. Rate Governing is only applied
in the direction to the WAN to minimize latency. .

Virtual Private Network Support
Interconnecting the IP•Tube G4 T1
through a Virtual Private Network with sufficient real time committed
information rate ensures that the required quality of service is
provisioned. The second Ethernet interface provides a management port.
Each LAN interface features independent IP network configurations.
Lossless
Data Compression Option
The
IP•Tube G4 T1 detects idle/redundant data within each DS0
resulting in as much as 56 to 1 bandwidth savings. T1 over IP
bandwidth is not consumed by silent or redundant circuits. Management
of the IP•Tube G4 T1 is accomplished with a Command Line Interface
that is accessed through a Console or Telnet connection. Common
templates provide for cut and Paste configuration.
Alternator
Load Balancing Option
The IP•Tube G4 T1-ALT Alternator option alternatively sends
the IP packetized T1 frames on LAN 1 and LAN 2. The Alternator option
enables fractional and full T1 circuits to be split over two IP
WAN connections such as xDSL. The Lossless Data Compression option
can be combined with the Alternator option to minimize the bandwidth
required from the alternative paths. The cost of interconnecting
T1 communication systems across packetized xDSL is a fraction of
long distance leased T1 circuit costs.
SuperTube
Option
Engage
Communication super sizes IPTube’s T1 Circuit extension over Ethernet
Packet networks. The Engage SuperTube option combines four T1 circuits
into one IP packet stream. The SuperTube is designed to support
Cellular Backhaul’s tight latency requirements when multiple T1 circuit
interconnects are to be extended over Packet networks.

The
typical way to extend T1 circuits across packet networks is for each T1
to be encapsulated into individual IP packet streams. The SuperTube
Sized IPTube reduces the encapsulation overhead bandwidth and the
packet frequency by 75%. The reduction of packet frequency enables
network processors that are pressed with the low latency packet
processing.
Cellular Backhaul has latency
requirements that can be as stringent as four milliseconds. In order
to rate adapt the clock and to take into account the jitter of the
Ethernet buffering of the circuit extended packets is required. The
frequency of the packets may need to be as low as 250 micro seconds to
meet the latency and buffering requirements.
The
packet processing for 4 bidirectional T1 circuits at 250 microseconds
packet interval full duplex is 32,000 packets per second. 32,000
packets per second full duplex is not something that 802.xx and WiMax
wireless radios are able to reliably process. The SuperTube option
cuts the packet processing requirement to 8,0000 packets per second
which can be handled with ease by commercial grade 802.xx and WMax
radios.
Protector
Option
The
protector option utilizes the second LAN interface as a redundant
path for the interconnection of the IP encapsulated T1 Circuit.
The extension of the T1 circuit has a fault tolerant link that is
configured to always on, or with switch over criteria.
Protector OPTION -EnPRO
The
Enhanced version has configuration parameters that enable a secondary
packet path with high relative delay to primary path be synchronized.
The packet sequence delay synchronization ensures concurrent redundancy
with a high degree of error tolerance. Error free operation is
accomplished when a primary or secondary Packet is not received and a
redundant duplicate packet is available. The IPTube also supports the
transmission of multiple duplicate packets to support Mission Critical
Circuit extension with redundancy that is only limited by the bandwidth
provisioned.
Alternator
Load Balancing OPTION -ALT
The Alternator option alternatively sends the IP packetized T1 frames
on two Ethernet interfaces, balanacing the load. The Alternator option
enables fractional and full T1 circuits to be split over two IP WAN
connections such as ADSL.

Full T1 Connection Across Two ADSL Lines
The IP•Tube UNO T1’s
two Ethernet interfaces are able utilize two ADSL Ethernet Modems, that
have opposite high speed direction, to transport a T1’s symmetrical
bandwidth.
Pay-As-You-Grow
Field Upgrades
The IP•Tube G4 T1 is designed for Pay-As-You-Go growth from
1 T1 thru 4 T1s per IP•Tube G4 T1. Customers can elect to economize
initial network installations, by purchasing their IP•Tube
G4 T1 with a single active T1 port. As the network grows enable additional
T1 Ports via a software-based license key. Field upgrade benefits
are extended to our Industry-Best Lossless Data Compression. Just
as T1 ports are field upgradeable, so is Lossless Data Compression.
At any time, each T1 port on the IP•Tube G4 T1 can be upgraded
to Lossless Data Compression with a simple software-based license
key installation. If upon installation, you determine that your
IP•Tube G4 T1s are best deployed with Lossless Data Compression,
you're still in business with the per port field upgrade!