Climax900e

Asce Networks' Climax900e Access Switch offers cost-effective solutions for branch office or regional hub sites. Flexible enough to handle all standard protocols and services, scaleable enough to grow with your requirements, modular enough to adapt to your changing needs, the Climax900e delivers all-in-one Frame Relay networking solutions.

Unparalleled Flexibility
The Climax900e is a Frame Relay access switch that provides local switching capabilities for regional and remote sites. It adapts to your networking needs as they evolve. As an access device, the Climax900e handles a wide range of protocols from user devices including legacy SNA/SDLC, async, 3270 bisync, HDLC and X.25; Frame Relay; LAN traffic (both Ethernet and Token Ring); or voice, fax and video data. It supports transmission over a range of services including X.25, Frame Relay, ISDN and the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). As a switch, it offers switching capabilities for X.25 and Frame Relay. Each plug-in module provides a connection to a protocol or service, whether user side (voice/fax, legacy data, LAN, ISDN, QSIG even video) or network side (X.25, Frame Relay, ISDN, PSTN). For each additional service, just add a card to the Climax900e chassis. With its optional integrated 56/64K, T1/E1 CSU/DSU, ISDN (PRI, BRI) and V.34 dial back-up modules and its range of protocol and service support, the Climax900e delivers unparalleled networking flexibility.

Unmatched Adaptability/Scalability
The modular 6-slot device can be anything you want it to be. Start with a Serial port module to provide SNA over Frame Relay access and you have a FRAD; add a LAN module and you have a router; add a voice module and you have a voice/data multiplexer - all just by adding a card. You might want to migrate your SNA network from dedicated lines to Frame Relay now, and later add LAN; add voice to take advantage of the unused bandwidth in your data network and add ISDN for back-up. Just change or add a card.

Reduce Recurring Line Costs
With the Climax900e, you can squeeze more performance from your WAN lines. Combine data and voice over a single WAN link and eliminate costly dial-up voice and fax connections and multiple leased data lines. When you piggyback your voice calls on the same line as your data, long distance toll charges can be reduced or even eliminated. But there are even more ways to reduce costs: software data compression increases the throughput on your lines; local acknowledgment (spoofing) of SNA frames reduces overhead on the network, freeing up bandwidth for data traffic. The implementation of RFC 1490 for multiprotocol encapsulation means that all your traffic - legacy and LAN as well as voice, fax and video - can share one DLCI, thus reducing networking costs and taking advantage of the cost efficiency of Frame Relay networks. In some cases, the payback period is as short as six months.

Control Hardware Costs
The Climax900e offers full hardware integration. The integral router, modem, CSU/DSU and voice compression options, and the support for Frame Relay and X.25 access, concentration and multiplexing mean that you need not purchase additional external hardware. Everything you need for high performance networking - a switch, a concentrator, a router, a CSU/DSU, V.34 modem or ISDN interface for backup, can all be housed on one compact integrated platform.

Use Existing Networking Equipment
The Climax900e is compatible with the networks of most major carriers and is interoperable with products from a range of vendors so you can capitalize on your investment in communications infrastructure. There's no need to throw out existing modems, routers, PADs or multiplexers. The Climax900e responds to your emerging needs, providing access to additional services and a migration path to emerging technologies, without forcing you to make major changes to your network.

Easy To Manage
The Climax900e is configured using Asce networks' new CXTool, a Windows-based configuration tool specifically designed for Asce networks' Climax family of products. CXTool makes configuration easy. Simply point, click and fill in the information. Monitoring is performed using Asce networks' CXView a monitoring tool based on a client/server architecture that allows network managers to view status information on their Asce networks-based network components from any location, using a standard HTTP browser. The CXView can be easily integrated withing an NMS, such as HP OpenView .

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