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T1 Extension over Fiber
To reduce expenses by replacing costly Centrex services with a municipality-owned T1 voice over fiber distribution solution
To extend voice over fiber to remote sites requiring one or more T1 lines without compromising voice quality or functionality
RAD’s Optimux-T3 and Optimux-4T1L fiber optic multiplexers and FOMi-E1/T1 fiber optic modems extend up to 28 T1 lines from each location to 34 remote sites over a fiber optic network
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- Scalable T1-over-fiber transport
- Central SNMP management
- Cost-effective, compact, scalable solution
- Enhances network uptime and reliability
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Burlington Telecommunications serves the communications needs of the city of Burlington, Vermont. To eliminate the city’s high monthly payments to its Centrex voice carrier, it decided to install its own fiber optic network for voice communications. “By building the fiber network, we’ve eliminated the need for a carrier to deliver our voice traffic to the city and we’re saving well over $100,000 a year,” says Chris Burns, Project Manager for the Burlington Telecom Project.
The City of Burlington searched for cost-effective and scalable access equipment that could distribute T1 circuits to all municipal locations. In addition, it wanted the solution to enable simple provisioning and monitoring of services after cutover to the new system.
By building the fiber network, we've eliminated the need
for a carrier to deliver our voice traffic to the city and
we're saving well over $100,000 a year.
Said Chris Burns
Project Manager, Burlington Telecom Project,
City of Burlington |
Complete, Reliable Network
“We had to find a cost-effective way to distribute T1s to 34 different sites over a fiber optic infrastructure. We found RAD to be the only vendor offering solutions flexible and scalable enough to do this,” Burns explains.
RAD’s Optimux-4T1L units offered Burlington Telecom a simple and low cost way to transport four T1 circuits over a single fiber optic link. Burlington Telecom also deployed RAD’s Optimux-T3 in a ring configuration to provide complete path protection that prevents service failure, even if a fiber link is damaged or disconnected. The Optimux-T3 multiplexes up to 28 T1 lines over a single T3 link. Burlington Telecom uses RAD’s FOMi-E1/T1 when only a single T1 is needed for a particular location. RAD’s LRS-24 SNMP-managed modem rack saves space in the central office.
The RAD products connect municipal buildings including fire, police, city hall, department of public works, power company, and parks and recreation facilities. With the fourth phase just completed, Burlington now has over 700 lines up and running at 11 school sites, five fire stations, one police dispatch station, three power company sites, three wastewater facilities, the water department and six other buildings.
We found RAD to be the only vendor offering solutions
flexible and scalable enough to do this.
Said Chris Burns
Project Manager, Burlington Telecom Project,
City of Burlington |
Network Management Offers 24-Hour Surveillance and Remote Monitoring
The RADview SNMP management system lets Burlington Telecom manage the network from a central site, and also prepares them to meet the growing demand for high bandwidth services. Using RADview, Burlington Telecom can change the configuration, receive real-time alerts on system status, activate diagnostics and view statistics on system functionality in a graphical format. Remote management also eliminates the need for “expensive truck rolls,” Burns points out. RADview enables full management of the LRS-24 and all remote units from a single station.
“We found RAD’s solutions to be very attractive to us and offered many unique features, which played a key role in our decision to select them,” states Burns. “We are especially excited about RADview since we were able to cut costs by integrating other-vendor solutions on the same platform.”
Burlington Telecom plans to use RAD’s IPmux solutions using RAD’s TDMoIP® technology in future applications for integrating voice and data services for business customers.
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