Encrypted T1 Over IP

Black•Tube for T1 Circuit Extension over IP

The Black•Tube 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. Available with Integrated Echo Cancellation and Lossless Data Compression.

Echo Cancellation -ECAN

Black•Tube's Echo Cancellation provides the elasticity to support Echo Free Voice connections across networks with packet jitter.

Wide Area Networks that traverse an intranet or Internet have packet delay variation (Jitter) that typically exceeds 12 milliseconds. Total round trip delays in excess of 24 millisecond makes echo perceptible.

Echo Cancellor is DSP based and cancels up to 64 milliseconds of Far End echo. The echo canceller meets ITU-T G.164, G.165 and ITU-T G.168 requirements.

Lossless Data Compression continuously detects idle/redundant data within each T1 Voice circuit resulting in as much as a 40 to 1 bandwidth savings. The compression works from the lowest latency setting of 8 T1 frames to the highest setting of 40 T1 frames per packet.

TDM over IP WAN bandwidth is not consumed by silent or redundant circuits.

The Protector option provides for automatic protection of the T1 circuit over independent IP packet routes. After conversion of the T1 circuit into IP packets, two identical packet streams are created. These duplicate packet streams are used to provide redundant IP connectivity to the remote location in either “Always-On” or “On-Demand” switch over modes.

The need to Protect Critical Communications is in high demand for the following applications:

•Public Safety Network Redundancy for Police, Fire and Medical
• Auto Recovery for Military Communication
• Delivering on Service Level Agreements
• Resilient Cellular Backhaul

Always-On
In Always-On mode, the Protector sends two identical packet streams simultaneously on the LAN1 and LAN2 ports of the local Black•Tube. The remote unit monitors both LAN1 and LAN2 incoming traffic and on a packet by packet basis selects the best packet to use for conversion from IP back to T1. In most cases, switching of the receive packet source between LAN1 and LAN2 can be done without T1 circuit interruption.

On Demand Protection
In “On-Demand” mode, the Protector only sends the duplicate packet stream over the second IP connection (LAN2 of the IP-Tube) if a failure is detected on the first IP connection. “On-Demand” connections can be used for cost savings or bandwidth reasons. For example, the expense associated with a backup IP Satellite connection for a full T1 (non-optimized T1 over IP requires 1.8 megabits per second) would dictate transmitting duplicate packets only during a failure condition.

The T1 Link Protector provides an automatic back up for T1 circuits with T1 Over IP connecting via Wireless Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IP Satellite Services, xDSL,....

• Automatic Protection Switch for T1 Circuit
• Deliver on Stringent Service Level Agreements
• Back Up for Mission Critical Connectivity
• Disaster Recovery for Public Safety Networks