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Coastcom AIM
Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer
AIM Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer

AIM – Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer
Coastcom’s AIM —Advanced Intelligent Multiplexer is a next-generation
multi-service access concentrator for integrated access to Time-Division
Multiplexing (TDM), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, and SONET
networks.
AIM provides a highly resilient, cost-effective solution for today’s broadband
needs as well as a transition vehicle to tomorrow’s technologies. Offering
carrier-class access, AIM integrates voice/data services with up to 60 full and
fractional T1s and multiple T3s. AIM functions ideally as a 0/1/3 multiplexer,
allowing complex voice/data grooming at the DS0 level. The system architecture
will allow connection of up to 1,020 full duplex DS0s in any mix of DS1s and
DS3s. AIM fully merges diverse traffic, including POTS, synchronous data,
TCP/IP, Frame Relay, and ATM in a compact, modular platform. With superior
scalability, high port density, multiple levels of redundancy, and flexible
bandwidth allocation, AIM supports diverse customer traffic while protecting
your communications investment.
Featuring:
- Programmable bandwidth allocation to cost-effectively manage trunk
bandwidth
- Input from Ethernet LANs, routers, digital PBXs,
terminal servers, and Frame Relay assemblers/disassembles (FRAD)
- Operation over a mix of transmission facilities
- T1/T3 drop-and-insert mode of operation
- Full cross-connect capability of 1,020 full duplex DS0s supporting as many
as 60 T1s
- 0/1/3 multiplexing and grooming
- Extensive array of hardware and link-protection options to maximize system
availability
- Simplified network management with AIM-Net® and Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP)
AIM’s feature-rich platform provides a cost-effective solution to grow your
business:
- Carrier-Class Access
- Superior Scalability
- High-Port Density
- Flexible Bandwidth Allocation
Intelligence By Design AIM’s intelligence allows you to provision and control
your network through the local loop to user locations so you can quickly and
efficiently respond to new requirements. AIM cost-effectively manages trunk
bandwidth, enabling you to program bandwidth allocation for individual
customers. Multiple user applications can be bundled onto a single access link
and unbundled at geographically dispersed locations. Combined with Coastcom’s
user-friendly AIM-Net graphical interface, AIM users can remotely build and
verify voice/data connections with point-and-click ease.
With AIM’s embedded SNMP agent, a network manager can perform network
configuration as well as obtain performance reports, collect statistics, and
monitor alarms. The SNMP agent can be accessed via Ethernet and serial ports
using a common Web browser. AIM also functions with standard SNMP management
platforms.
For maximum fault tolerance, AIM nodes can easily be configured with redundant
power, common controllers, and port interfaces. AIM has the capability to
automatically re-route traffic around failed transmission facilities based on
the customer's business requirements. AIM detects and recovers from component
failures as well as failures within attached WANs.

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Traffic
Types |
T1, T3,
synchronous data, frame relay, T1 ATM, SONET and Ethernet |
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Transmission |
T1, T3
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Channel
Service Unit (CSU) |
Integrated
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Modes of
Operation |
Drop-and-insert,
channel bank |
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Maximum
System Capacity |
Up to 60 T1, full
cross connect capability of up to 1,020 full duplex DS0s |
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Switching
Techniques |
Circuit
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Data
Interfaces |
RS-232, RS-449/442,
V.35 |
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LAN
Interfaces |
Ethernet (10Base-T)
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Call 301-924-7400 ext. 17 or 18
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