Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Telematics International Inc, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Israeli company ECI Telecom Ltd, has announced two wide area network switches, the PCP 340 and PCP 440. Both are designed for Frame Relay concentration and multi-protocol access, says Telematics. Congestion management is one of the major objectives of Frame Relay service providers, as they realise it is critical to ensuring quality of service to end users, according to Telematics. To this end, the company’s latest switches incorporate rate adaptation for congestion management and Telematics-designed high-capacity frame buffering, said David Moxey, director of product marketing. This combination of rate adaptation and sizable frame buffering will enable carriers to expand Frame Relay networks by aggregating low speed native Frame Relay and other data transmission protocols, while improving resiliency. PCP 340s and PCP 440s can also be deployed as access and concentration switches in conjunction with Telematics’ Frame Relay Switch offering, which is equipped with the company’s Fairway bandwidth management features. Fairway is said to allocate and share network resources according to Committed Information Rates traffic priorities, and network utilisation, while Frame Relay Swtich detects congestion in the network and notifies access equipment. The PCP 340 and PCP 440 are both out now, priced from $6,950. The PCP 340 supports up to 26 ports, while the PCP 440 will support up to 50 ports.
