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Frame Relay Access Products

Highlights:

• Frame relay SLA monitoring plus probe functions with built-in Web-based performance reports
• A powerful yet affordable window to the power of frame relay networks
• Carrier class, rate flexible, frame relay access at 56/64 Kbps software upgradeable to T1/E1 speeds
• Comprehensive tools for verifying SLAs, assessing quality of service, and managing bandwidth usage
• Internet-ready management via an embedded Web server agent
• Optional Innovx Frame Manager enterprise network management software for WindowsNT-based analysis and reporting
• Automatically responds to LMI polls ensuring frame relay service availability during router or LAN outages
• IDSL and HDSL versions available

Overview GDC's innovx™ is a family of next generation access products designed specifically for packet networks. Current solutions include innovative, highly intelligent, software based frame relay access devices, with built-in CSU/DSUs, that perform frame relay monitoring and extensive frame relay network probing functions. The innovx platform has the computing power of a PC, for lower latency than most other products in its class, and makes full use of the power of the Internet through a built in HTTP web server supporting Java. Innovx' core architecture is ready for the swing away from circuit-based to packet-based networking -- from frame relay support now to ATM transport in the future.

Open A Window to the Network An innovx located between a LAN segment and the frame relay network not only provides access to frame relay at 56/64 Kbps, FT1, or T1 rates but also opens a window to the network for complete awareness of frame relay performance, line impairment conditions, and alarms.

Innovx provides network managers with all the tools necessary to monitor and troubleshoot frame relay transport systems through Telnet and SNMP -- or your Internet browser. In addition, the family delivers valuable tools for long-range proactive and predictive management of network resources -- such as network baselining and performance trend analysis. For enterprise users, the innovx family quickly pays for itself by allowing users to fully utilize bandwidth, which ultimately controls recurring frame relay costs. For service providers in today's highly competitive frame relay market, innovx provides a means for introducing new value-added services.

The Innovx Difference Frame relay is currently the access method of choice to interconnect multiple enterprise locations together for LAN-based networking. Frame relay is a connectionless service whose protocol transparency and dynamic nature leaves much to the customer in terms of monitoring, assessing quality of service, and troubleshooting. Innovx not only analyzes the physical and logical aspects of a users frame relay network, but helps characterize the level of service users are receiving.

Key Features
Data Collection -- Information about network operation is collected by high speed dedicated processors. Built-in 24 hour reports are sampled every second and accumulated in 15 minute intervals. The reports are available directly from the innovx via a PC with an ordinary web browser. Since virtually all the collection and processing of data occurs within the innovx, WAN overhead created by management traffic is minimized. Real-Time Performance Monitoring -- Innovx probes provide real-time monitoring and analysis of frame relay networks. This enables users to proactively maintain and troubleshoot frame relay performance issues.

Versatile Frame Relay Access -- Innovx products are carrier class, highly intelligent frame relay service access devices, so external DSU/CSU hardware is not needed. Users have a choice of access to digital services at 56/64 Kbps or at T1/FT1 rates. Innovx 553s support both DS-1 and DSX-1 network interfaces while innovx MSPs support both DDS and DDS with Secondary Channel network interfaces and are software upgradable to DS-1/DSX-1 (T1/FT1) services. DTE interfaces can be standard EIA-530 or V.35. An Ethernet interface enables LAN attachment.

Innovx Benefits
Quality of Service Assurance -- Innovx acts as an expert frame relay Service Level Advisor giving service providers and enterprise users a means of verifying that service commitments are met. Frame relay tariff rates are based in part on a Committed Information Rate (CIR) -- the sustainable data rate, which is guaranteed by the carrier. Statistics gathered by innovx give IT managers the information needed to analyze the CIR track record and measure such critical performance parameters as PVC delay, PVC frame loss, throughput, utilization, and congestion.

Reduced Recurring Frame Relay Access Costs -- Innovx provides a means of collecting bandwidth usage data and allows the user to maximize bandwidth efficiency. An investment in innovx is easily cost-justified because, ultimately, wise bandwidth management pays off in terms of reduced access charges.

Lower Facility Costs -- Innovx products are easily introduced without major disruption of the existing network. They are easy to install and maintain. Plug-and-play and Ethernet LAN attachable, they feature a modular scalable architecture with room for growth and easy upgrades. Whether you are installing one unit or thousands, innovx scales to exactly your need.

Easy Provisioning of Leading-edge, Value-added Offerings -- The innovx family's versatile interfaces and advanced management tools -- which provide added monitoring, reporting, and control features -- make innovx an ideal vehicle for carriers seeking to provision value-added offerings, based on frame relay services.