IP•Tube G4 E1

 Enable One to Four E1 interfaces for E1 over IP Voice and Data 

The IP•Tube G4 E1 is available with one to four E1 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 E1 interfaces have configurations that for provide independent protocol, compression, packet sizing, buffering, framing, coding and channel settings. Enable additional E1 Ports as needs expand using a software-based license key. The protocols supported are IP•Tube, CESoIP, and HDLCoIP. Transparent Interconnect, the IP•Tube G4 E1’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.

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 E1 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 E1  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 E1  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 IP•Tube at the other end of the E1 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 IP•Tube’s Command Line Interface.SNMP
The IP•Tube UNO E1 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 E1 Connection Across Two ADSL Lines
The IP•Tube G4 E1’s two Ethernet interfaces are able utilize two ADSL Ethernet Modems, that have opposite high speed direction, to transport a E1's symmetrical bandwidth.Service Quality Packet Prioritizing
The IP•Tube G4 E1 uses the Type of Service byte in the IP packets to prioritize the encapsulated E1 frames. The setting of the TOS byte can be used to ensure that the real time TDM data from the IP•Tube G4 E1 is ensured high priority.

VPN Network Management
Interconnecting the IP•Tube G4 E1 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 E1'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.

Rate Limiter
The Ethernet switch Ingress and/or Egress Rate Limiter option enables the reservation of the bandwidth for time-sensitive E1 Over IP real time connections. Required for applications where the LAN traffic can exceed the WAN bandwidth required by the E1 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 E1 Over IP real time connections. Great for Wireless WAN E1 applications. Rate Governing is only applied in the direction to the WAN to minimize latency..

Virtual Private Network Support 
Interconnecting the IP•Tube G4 E1 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.

Alternator Load Balancing Option
The IP•Tube G4 E1-ALT Alternator option alternatively sends the IP packetized E1 frames on LAN 1 and LAN 2. The Alternator option enables fractional and full E1 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 E1 communication systems across packetized xDSL is a fraction of long distance leased E1 circuit costs.

SuperTube Option
Engage Communication super sizes IP•Tube's E1 Circuit extension over Ethernet Packet networks.  The Engage SuperTube option combines four E1 circuits into one IP packet stream.  The SuperTube is designed to support Cellular Backhaul’s tight latency requirements when multiple E1 circuit interconnects are to be extended over Packet networks.

The typical way to extend E1 circuits across packet networks is for each E1 to be encapsulated into individual IP packet streams.  The SuperTube Sized IP•Tube 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 E1 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 E1 Circuit. The extension of the E1 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 IP•Tube 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 E1 frames on two Ethernet interfaces, balanacing the load. The Alternator option enables fractional and full E1 circuits to be split over two IP WAN connections such as ADSL.

Full E1 Connection Across Two ADSL Lines
The IP•Tube UNO E1’s two Ethernet interfaces are able utilize two ADSL Ethernet Modems, that have opposite high speed direction, to transport a E1’s symmetrical bandwidth.

GPSDO Stratum 1 Clock OPTION -GPSDOThe GPSDO Option receives GPS satellite timing signals to control an onboard oscillator providing from a E1 Stratum 1 reference clock. The GPSDO Option utilizes a mixed-signal phase lock loop GPS driven frequency module to generate extremely accurate 2.048MHz E1 references clocks that are frequency locked to the Global Stratum 1 source. The Stratum 1 clock is the basis for all telecom voice and data interfaces, required to assure proper synchronization of signals and call quality. 

E1 Over IP Ethernet Benefits

E1 Private Line Services over IP

The IP•Tube G4 E1 provides organizations with the ability to interconnect their existing phone systems over flexible bandwidth lines that are used to carry data, voice, and video. The Voice Only Leased Line Toll charges assessed by long distance and local carriers are eliminated or dramatically reduced by transporting voice traffic across LANs and WANs.

LANs
The most compelling option for the interconnection of E1 based systems is when it can be accomplished over a Local Area Network. The deployment of Fiber based LANS such as Gigabit Ethernet, provides organizations with high performance and high quality bandwidth that is especially well suited for the interconnection of PBXs and Telecom Switches. 

E1 Over Wireless Ethernet

Interconnection of E1 based data communication systems over wireless as a primary or back up connection is a major application of the IP•Tube.

For over eight years the IP•Tube has proven itself around the world as an effective method for using Commercial Off the Shelf Wireless Ethernet Bridges to interconnect E1 circuits.

The IP•Tube Assured Delivery Protocol has the sophistication required for solid performance across a wide range of wireless connections.

The use of parallel Wireless Ethernet links minimizes the latency and Radio’s packet processing requirement. 
Note: Parallel Application requires Ethernet Switch Option.

Connecting phone systems across a wireless Ethernet connection has a return on investment that is measured in weeks. Eliminating the wired connection for the E1 based communication equipment is made possible with the IPTube’s E1 Over Ethernet capability.

IP•Tube G4 E1s provide transparent interconnection of Base Stations, Base Station Controllers and Mobile Switching Centers over IP Ethernet packet-switched networks.

Cellular service providers save substantially by converting to a packet switch network. The Lossless Data compression option, which is especially well suited to Cellular communication links, minimizes the bandwidth required to interconnect.

Cellular phone service providers are able to save substantially by converting to a packet switch network from circuit based TDM leased lines. The Loss Less Data compression option provides a 56 to 1 compression, which minimizes the bandwidth required to interconnect, is especially well suited to Cellular communication links. 

Engage's first deployment of the IPTubeE1, in the Spring of 2000, was for an international interconnection of a Cellular Base Station to a Base Station Controller.

The SuperTube Option reduces the overhead and packet frequency while lowering latency which makes cell backhaul a possibility over Wired and Wireless connections.

Note: The Ethernet Switch Option has the sophistication to support Ethernet Native Base Station applications with QOS and rate limiting.

Broadband Service Providers

Companies, that are able to provide IP Ethernet access networks generate new revenue by offering traditional E1 leased line and private line services, such as:

Cable Operators
Cable operators connect traditional E1 leased line and private line services over their hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable networks. HFC Cable network latency typically requires echo cancellation.

Metropolitan Area Networks
Metropolitan carriers with IP or Ethernet access networks deliver traditional leased line and private line services.

Utilities
Utilities generate new revenue by offering traditional E1 leased line and private line services over their fiber or power line networks.

Incumbent Carriers
Telcos reduce costs by delivering profitable leased and private line services over their flexible Ethernet infrastructures.

CLEC PBX Back Haul
The IP•Tube DLE1-Ecan provides CLECs with a way to back haul E1 DS0s from a customer’s phone systems over their Internet connection. The back hauled DS0s are connected to the CLECs phone switch for connection to the Public Switched Telephone Networks. Local Exchange Carriers are able to offer an economical alternative to the local Phone Company.

International Toll Bypass
The IP•Tube E1's most dramatic cost savings is when it is used for the international interconnections of TDM based telecommunication equipment. The IP•Tube E1 is interoperable with the European TDM standard E1.