Zebra Optical Gateway
Zebra Optical Gateway
Zebra Optical Gateway
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Zebra optical gateway
The Zebra optical gateway is designed to connect
the Zebra monitoring centre system to
SDH/SONET and E3/DS3 telephony networks. It
provides a highly dense connectivity solution: 2
bi-directional STM1/OC3 carriers can be
intercepted in a single 1U 19” rack module. The
unit supports 1 STM4/OC12 input. An expansion
module (currently under development) provides
connectivity for 12 E3/DS3 inputs. Used in
conjunction with the Zebra monitoring centre
system, the Zebra gateway provides a very
powerful telecommunications monitoring solution.
• The Zebra gateway and Zebra monitoring centre system can process primary rate carriers
containing only SS7 signaling timeslots (e.g.: 31 signaling timeslots on an E-1)
• The Zebra gateway supports any combination of hyper channels (consecutive timeslots
used together to provide one bigger n x 64 kbps channel) together with E0/D0 (64 kbps)
channels on the same carrier
• The Zebra gateway supports channelized E1/T1, E3/DS3 and STM1/OC3 (unframed
streams used as bit streams)
• E1/T1, E0/DS0 channels, hyper channels and channelized carriers can be mixed on the
same gateway
• The Zebra optical gateway can be used in conjunction with other Zebra gateways (for
example: the Zebra E1/T1 gateway) in the same Zebra monitoring centre system
• The Zebra monitoring centre system reads data from the Zebra gateway over Ethernet,
allowing the processing of monitored streams to be farmed out to as many servers on the
network as required for the connected capacity. This allows a Zebra system to be scaled
up to an unprecedented capacity of over 150 000 monitored channels in a single system
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Specifications
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