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The IP Networking Cassette Introduction
The INDeX offers the advantages of integrated voice and data communications to
small and medium sized organisations. An IPNC provides a wide range of
facilities and can support many applications, both at a single site and at
dispersed locations. The IPNC provides fast flexible Internet access, implements
e-commerce strategies, Remote Access Solutions and Voice over IP.
The IPNC Voice-over-IP solution can fully utilise all of the available bandwidth,
providing significant line rental savings. The IPNC utilises voice compression
techniques to optimise speech quality against cost and has up to 20 compressed
voice channels (to G.723.1 / G.729a standards).
The IPNC is designed to provide a custom solution that is both easy to use and
easy to manage, with secure data transmissions. Principal features of the
products are:
- Secure Internet access and data services.
- Intranet / wide area capability.
- Dynamic addressing with an integrated DHCP server.
- TCP/IP routing.
- Dynamic bandwidth management for data services.
- Voice-over-IP (VoIP).
- Network Address Translation, for added Internet security and local IP
addressing flexibility.
- Firewall to protect against intrusion from the Internet, the wide area, and by
dial-in access.
- Remote Access Server (RAS) for custom dial-in data services.
- Remotely Manageable.
- Timebands - to restrict access to when, and only when, it is needed and
authorised.
- Encrypted Passwords - to allow access only by authorised users. All data
service activity is password-controlled.
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