Ascom AG’s Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based Ascom Timeplex Inc has announced that it will sell and market Ascom Nexion’s new Nexen 2200 communications switch on a worldwide basis. The Nexen 2200 is designed to unify network services such as traditional Ethernet and circuit switched services, and enable the provision of interactive multimedia to the desktop. It is compatible with Ethernet 10Base-T unshielded twisted pair. The Nexen 2200 uses Isochronous Ethernet to integrate circuit and frame services required by voice, video and data traffic over existing category 3 unshielded twisted pair wiring infrastructures. It enables desktop-to-desktop communications for frame-based applications, and emerging multimedia and computer-integrated telephony applications, across existing local and wide area networks. It features communications for 16 IsoEthernet or Ethernet ports, has up to four integrated T1/PRI ISDN wide-area network ports, and features full IsoEthernet IEEE 802.9a signalling. Standards-based inverse multiplexing is designed to extend the flexibility of bandwidth allocation by providing lower cost access to the wide area. As an example, multiple Basic Rate Interface lines can be grouped to support up to 512Kbps. For ISDN Primary Rate Interface, inverse multiplexing supports single calls up to 1.92Mbps. It also includes a personal computer-based management and configuration services application – a proxy agent provides optional monitoring capabilities from any Simple Network Management Protocol management station. There is no word yet on pricing.
