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Delivering Integrated Business
and Residential Broadband Solutions
Integral Access, Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford Massachusetts, is a privately held company that develops, manufactures and markets next generation access equipment for the delivery of integrated business and residential services by service providers. Integral Access currently has products deployed in more than 40 major US metropolitan areas and 8 European regions . Integral Access’ core competency is in the delivery of toll quality packet voice, traffic management and robust simplified operations and element management.
Integral Access believes that all services will be delivered over a converged IP based infrastructure, providing the scalability, operational efficiencies and framework for delivering enhanced services. A strategy based on deploying a next generation packet platform, allows for the easy introduction and adoption of not only evolutionary but also revolutionary broadband services with minimal cost impact in the access portion of the network. From a tactical and strategic perspective, it reduces the high cost of using architecturally fragmented and specialized platforms and maximizes the utilization of the access network.
To support this vision, Integral Access has developed technology to enable carriers to take advantage of the benefits that are delivered by Next Generation Packet networks, including the necessary support for existing carrier infrastructures and the tools to facilitate the transition to a managed IP network. The PurePacket architecture delivers a variety of services on a single platform and ensures quality of service.
The Integral Access product solution, PurePacket, is comprised of an access aggregation platform (PurePacketNode), customer premises integrated access devices (OUTburst) and an operations management system (PurePacketOMS). This solution allows service providers to offer traditional and enhanced voice and data services to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SME) and broadband residential services, enabling revenue growth with new services at lower costs than traditional overlay solutions. The product has been designed to ease carrier adoption and addresses a multitude of applications over a variety of network infrastructures.
The Technology
Integral Access’ PurePacket solution provides efficient delivery of integrated voice and data services over DS1 or DSL and copper links. The PurePacket system interoperates with business customer premise equipment (CPE) such as voice equipment (key systems, PBX, handsets), LAN routers and switches, as well as IP telephony equipment using the OUTburst Integrated Access Devices (IAD’s) or TDM and IP based third party IADs. PurePacket also addresses the broadband residential market as a next generation Access Gateway with the ability to deliver line side POTS and ADSL services. The PurePacketNode, which resides in the service providers’ central or collocation office, aggregates both residential and business services and delivers them to the appropriate voice and data Networks (e.g. PSTN, IP Telephony, the Internet and managed IP networks). The PurePacketNode voice mediation capability enables simultaneous offering of Class 5 and Softswitches based services. (Figure 1).
PurePacket converts voice into packets at the system’s ingress and carries converged voice and data traffic over single or multiple bonded access links. The system applies dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) to the various services while maintaining the Service Level Agreements (SLA) defined through the PurePacketOMS. The combinations of DBA, voice activity detection and silence suppression provides added bandwidth efficiency in the local loop and the opportunity for increased revenue. Quality of Service is maintained by robust traffic management in the access , using a combination of reservation, traffic scheduling and Label Switching Label Switched Paths (LSP) are utilized to manage the different Class of Services (COS) transported over the access facilities to deliver unsurpassed quality of service while maximizing utilization of the access network.
The PurePacketOMS is an open, CORBA-based, template driven user-friendly system that behaves similar to a computer LAN environment with plug and play, auto discovery and automatic provisioning of the network elements.
PurePacket Services |
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Functionality |
Applications • CO/COLO & In-building traffic Aggregation • Integrated Business Services over DS1/DSL • Residential POTS, ADSL, ADSL2+ • IP Telephony (VoIP) • TDM voice over Ethernet • LAN to LAN Services • Video over DSL* *Planned |
The Services
PurePacket can be configured to offer a variety of bundled business services over DS1 or DSL and over Ethernet for In-Building, Small Campus, and CoLo/CO-based solutions, as well as to provide residential and SOHO services. Carriers who decide to capitalize on the small-to-medium business market by offering integrated broadband access solutions can provide secure and flexible bandwidth for their data needs, as well as integrating or bundling other value-added services such as business voice, enhanced voice and data services, or other managed IP services as key differentiators. Bundling services makes the offerings more attractive and has been shown to reduce operational cost and customer churn. Integrated access offerings provide lower operational cost, improves responsiveness and ultimately leads to greater customer acquisition and retention. Revenues from these service bundles can be further improved by technology, such as PurePacket, which reduces the amount of equipment required at the Central Office and allows carriers to leverage greater bandwidth utilization in the local loop to provide additional services.
The Integral Access PurePacket™ Multi-Service Access Solution
The Integral Access PurePacket™ solution consists of three integrated parts:
PurePacketNode & PurePacketCompact
Multi-Service Access Platform that provides traffic aggregation, voice mediation and traffic switching and routing. The highly flexible PurePacketNode can be deployed in Central Offices, Collocation sites, Outside Cabinet Enclosures, and large Multi-Tenant /Multi-Dwelling Unit environments. The PurePacketCompact provides the same functionality and is tailored for In-Building and small campus deployments. The Compact can also be configured as an IAD (named OUTburst LB) for medium to large business applications. This common and flexible product architecture allows the delivery of a variety of types of business and residential services on a single platform and ensures the quality of service delivery..
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PurePacket-OUTburst Family of Integrated Access Devices (IADs)
OUTburst IADs, also known as customer premises equipment (CPE), provide a flexible Carrier Class solution for delivering broadband, IP-converged voice, video, and data services to small and medium businesses. Award winning advanced traffic management in the last mile (CO/CoLo to IAD) ensures QoS, SLA enforcement and service control. PurePacket will also interface to most common third party IAD’s
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PurePacket™ OMS, Operations & Service Management System The PurePacketOMS is an advanced, web-based, scalable management system that intelligently automates converged IP service environments. Using intuitive "point-and-click" Wizards and end-to-end flow-through provisioning, richly differentiated IP services are created in the OMS and delivered to PurePacketNodes and in turn to the end-user CPE without the need of a truck roll. The PurePacketOMS has an open and standards based architecture and interfaces CORBA, TL1, TMF814 or SNMP* to ensure seamless integration with new and existing front and back office systems including CRM, billing and customer self-help functions. SLA templates define and enforce CoS/QoS ensuring that critical service levels are met for delivery of existing and next generation services. |
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Feature and Functionality Differentiation The matrix below provides a high level view of the benefits, features, configurations and applications of the Integral Access PurePacket™ system. |
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Unique Features of PurePacket™ |
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Best in Class Label Switched based Traffic Management |
Robust traffic management that guaranties Quality for Service while
providing bandwidth efficiencies in the local loop that can be leveraged
for additional revenues. |
Integrated Circuit Switched and Softswitch Voice Gateway |
Supports both traditional CLASS 5 and Softswitch call control without
any additional equipment. Both circuit switched and Softswitch services
can be offered simultaneously providing smooth migration IP telephony. |
Multi-Service capability |
Supports multiple services over a variety of subscriber interfaces
for both business and residential applications reducing the number
of network and element managers. |
Carrier Class Packet Voice |
Hear it and believe it, all voice calls have a MOS score of 4.0
or greater with less than 25ms of access network delay. |
Integrated Management |
Truly a differentiator as it makes configuration management and
service provisioning very easy. The system provides auto detection
of elements and configurations, capacity planning, point and click
connection provisioning, template based SLA. |
Summary Integral Access PurePacket System is an award winning access solution delivering next generation services such as integrated voice and data, residential broadband and enhanced IP Services. PurePacket addresses the needs of the SMB customer by providing dynamic bandwidth allocation, service flexibility and assured quality. PurePacket future proofs the service providers’ investment by implementing an access network from the customer premise to the network edge that works in today’s circuit switch network while simultaneously supporting emerging softswitch architectures. Further, the service provider investment is secured by PurePacket’s open architecture, which is based on standards and delivers full interoperability with most carrier networks and CPE equipment as well as its open interfaces for integration with existing billing systems and other back-office requirements. Indeed, PurePacket award-winning flexible multi-service access solution is the right platform to generate greater revenues through the delivery of greater services, faster and cost effectively. |
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| The PurePacket system is cost competitive with other integrated solutions and can reduce operation cost by at least 70% and increase revenues by more than 30% and eliminate costly central office equipment. Typical payback is between 6 to 12 months and 3 years Return On Investment (ROI) greater than 600%. |
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