ADTRAN NetVanta 6240
IP Business Gateway

Overview:

ADTRAN offers a wide variety of solutions for converged voice/data services. The NetVanta 6240 Series of Multi-T1 IP Business Gateways are designed for carrier Ethernet and SIP/MGCP Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. These products feature all of the same robust routing and voice features of the widely deployed Total Access IP Business Gateways, along with a host of new features and functions that enable cost effective, reliable IP service delivery. These devices use the AOS to simplify management and administration. Multiple models offer flexibility for varied applications from PRI delivery and trunking services to Hosted IP PBX offerings.

The NetVanta 6240 Series offers up to four T1s. User interfaces include up to 24 FXS ports for analog voice delivery, up to ten FXO ports, and two 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface(s) for access to the NetVanta 6240 router or WAN access.

The NetVanta 6240 Series can be coupled with a NetVanta Power over Ethernet (PoE) switch to provide connectivity to a variety of network devices and personal computers, as well as to power IP phones and Wireless Access Points (WAPs).

VoIP Gateway

The NetVanta 6240 Series utilizes SIP or MGCP for VoIP applications, providing interoperability with industry-leading softswitches, feature servers, and gateways. Acting as a gateway, these devices convert IP signaling from the carrier into traditional TDM analog and digital voice services. This functionality allows the NetVanta 6240 Series to deliver voice services to both IP phones and traditional telephony equipment simultaneously. For customers implementing a hosted PBX or IP Centrex service, the NetVanta 6240 Series is ideal for providing customers additional analog ports necessary to support their remaining analog phones, fax machines, or modems. The NetVanta 6240 Series supports many popular calling features such as caller ID, call hold, forward, transfer, and call waiting. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and silence suppression are supported and the flexible design allows the NetVanta 6240 Series to support additional CODECs as the market requires.

Remote Survivability

In addition, the NetVanta 6240 Series can act as a registrar and Back-to-Back User Agent (B2BUA) or as a SIP-transparent proxy to facilitate remote survivability and NAT traversal. In the event of a service interruption on the wide area network or if the carrier's call agent were to become unavailable, calls may continue locally at the customer premise between IP-based or analog phones.

QoS, Security, Routing, and Voice Quality Monitoring

The NetVanta 6240 Series uses the AOS to provide a stateful inspection firewall; NAT; DHCP server/client; and feature-rich, standardsbased, IP routing functionality supporting BGP, OSPF, and RIP routing protocols. Inherent QoS methods ensure appropriate classification and prioritization of VoIP traffic. These methods include Low Latency Weighted Fair Queuing; class based weighted fair queuing, support for Differentiated Services (DiffServ) protocol, Frame Relay Fragmentation (FRF.12), and Frame Relay traffic shaping. VQM captures Mean Opinion Score (MOS), jitter, delay, and packet loss statistics necessary to troubleshoot VoIP calls over the WAN to help ensure superior call quality.

Management

The NetVanta 6240 Series can be remotely managed by either the ADTRAN n-Command® MSP or n-Command Enterprise Edition management platforms. ADTRAN n-Command platforms offer the ability to discover devices, make mass configuration changes or firmware upgrades, backup/restore configuration, and generate inventory reports for asset management. The ADTRAN n-Command MSP also offers VoIP VQM and reporting, as well as an industry leading, easy-to-use, Graphical User Interface (GUI).

NetVanta 6240 products are housed in a rugged metal enclosure; available in wallmount, rackmount, and desktop mountings; and offer a battery backup system for up to eight hours of uninterrupted service upon a customersite power outage. NetVanta 6240 products are backed by an industry leading five-year warranty, free firmware updates, and ADTRAN's world-class technical support.