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Lucent Technologies Launches New PacketStar AC Products with Enhanced Call Capacity and Port Density

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Lucent Technologies has announced the launch of new PacketStar AC products, which provide carriers with the ability to expand their call capacity by eight times while delivering toll-quality voice over ATM networks. The new platforms, AC 230 and AC 20, offer end-to-end support for AAL2, a new industry standard for transporting compressed voice over ATM, and provide more than double the port density of competing products. The products also offer industry-leading flexibility, allowing carriers to support any service - ATM, Frame Relay or Circuit Emulation - over any channel within the same T1/E1 line simultaneously, even at the DS3 level.

Key Takeaways:

  • The new PacketStar AC 230 and AC 20 products offer eightfold call capacity and double port density compared to traditional T1/E1 lines.
  • The products provide end-to-end support for AAL2, enabling service providers to deliver compressed voice over ATM.
  • The AC 230 platform provides 2.3 Gbps of switched traffic and supports a total of 15 I/O slots, while the AC 20 has a list price starting at $10,000.
  • The products offer industry-leading flexibility, allowing carriers to support multiple services over the same T1/E1 line.
  • The two products provide comprehensive traffic prioritization capabilities, delivering unique class-of-service capability for both IP- and circuit-based traffic.
  • Gabriel Communications plans to deploy the new access concentrator technology to provide integrated voice, data, and video services to business customers in St. Louis and other cities in the Midwest.
  • The ATM WAN access market is expected to experience a CAGR of 55 percent between 1997 and 2001.

Statistics:

  • The new PacketStar AC products offer eight times the call capacity of traditional T1/E1 lines.
  • The products provide double the port density of competing products, packed into the industry's most compact chassis, through support of channelized DS3.
  • The AC 230 platform supports 2.3 Gbps of switched traffic and has 15 I/O slots.
  • The ATM WAN access market is expected to experience a CAGR of 55 percent between 1997 and 2001.

Sources:

  • Lucent Technologies press release, "Lucent Technologies Launches New PacketStar AC Products with Enhanced Call Capacity and Port Density," PR Newswire, June 7, 2001.
  • Lucent Technologies press release, "Lucent Technologies Announces Next-Generation Access Concentrator Platform with Industry-Leading Voice Compression and Port Density," PR Newswire, June 7, 2001.
  • Lucent Technologies, "PacketStar AC 230 Data Sheet," Lucent Technologies, 2001.
  • Lucent Technologies, "PacketStar AC 20 Data Sheet," Lucent Technologies, 2001.

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