CopperCom Announces Packet-Based Host-Remote Switching

At Telecom '04 CopperCom (Booth 113) is announcing what it calls the industry's first packet-based host-remote solution for the independent telco market.

Center to the announcement is the ability to interconnect host and remote switches over packet or TDM interfaces -- or a hybrid of both -- in addition to a significant focus on network management and subscriber management. The entire complex can be managed as a single entity from the CopperCommander Network Management Center or over a Web-based interface as part of CopperCom's Network Management Strategy.

CopperCom's current product, the CSX, can be run in host mode, or a scaled down version can be deployed as a remote switch. Fully SIP-enabled and connected via packet interfaces, the host-remote solution addresses an issue that CopperCom says a number of larger carriers have been clamoring for: the ability to run remotes in territories that may be non-contiguous to where hosts are located and over which expensive leased facilities are used to connect the host-remote complex.

The ability to run packet facilities to the remotes allows carriers to arbitrage between circuit- and packet-based interconnection. The ability to run in TDM or packet mode allows carriers with a mix of technologies to offer whichever suits their needs. Packet mode also allows them to offer value-added IP services in territories that today can only get TDM-based voice.

The packet host-remote solution provides the market with the ability to offer IP based services, over a wide area (even as an overlay to an existing solution) as an edge-out strategy or as a cap-and-replace strategy to outdated circuit only host-remote solutions.

The host-remote ships in the first half 2005.

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