About The Packetstar ® Psax Product Family - Lucent Technologies PacketStar PSAX Series User Manual

About the PacketStar
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Table 1-1. PacketStar PSAX Product Family
Target Market Device Name
Small PSAX 20
Customer
Premises
Small PSAX AC 60
Customer
Premises
Carrier-Class PSAX 1250
Office
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PSAX Product Family
Lucent Technologies provides a complete range of PSAX Multiservice Media
Gateways in the PacketStar
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The PacketStar
scalable and flexible multiservice access product in its class. This scal-
ability enables service providers to meet the demands of a growing
enterprise customer with a single-edge solution. The PSAX 20 system
is nonredundant.
Supporting two slots for I/O and server modules and two factory-
installed components (Enhanced DS1 and DSP2C Voice Server) and a
600 Mbps ATM cell bus architecture, this system optimizes wide area
network (WAN) bandwidth with toll-quality voice compression, traf-
fic optimization, and port scalability from T1/E1 to OC-3c/STM-1c
connections. It also supports a full range of interfaces such as DS1,
DS3, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and serial.
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The PacketStar
enterprise networks seeking to consolidate branch office voice, video,
and data traffic onto a single ATM network. The PSAX AC 60 system
is nonredundant.
Supporting four slots for I/O and server modules, this system offers
high port-density in a small footprint for mid- to large-sized customer
premises applications. The PSAX AC 60 chassis has a 650 Mbps back-
plane and supports a full range of interfaces such as DS1/E1, DS3/E3,
OC-12c/STM-4c, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and serial.
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The PacketStar
to provide a full range of central office-based multiservice ATM access
functions. Ideal for the central office or a large enterprise's multiser-
vice media gateway, the PacketStar
highly reliable network access for time-division multiplex voice,
frame relay, and ATM data applications.
Supporting ten slots (19-inch chassis) or 14 slots (23-inch chassis) for
I/O and server modules, a 1.2 Gbps ATM cell bus architecture, carrier-
class reliability, full redundancy, and a full range of interfaces such as
DS1/E1, DS3/E3, OC-12c/STM-4c, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and
serial, the PSAX 1250 system is a cost-effective access switch solution
for bridging to legacy equipment.
About the PacketStar
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PSAX family, as described in Table 1-1.
Application/Description
PSAX 20 Multiservice Media Gateway is the most
PSAX AC 60 Multiservice Media Gateway is ideal for
PSAX 1250 Multiservice Media Gateway is designed
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PSAX 1250 system provides
Chapter 1 Getting Started
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PSAX Product Family
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