If you manage a heavy-traffic data network and you demand high bandwidth for high speeds, Black Box has what you need to send your data digitally over super-fast T1 or E1 communication lines.

Both T1 and E1 are foundations of global voice communication.
Developed more than 30 years ago and commercially available since 1983, T1 and E1 go virtually anywhere phone lines go, but faster.

T1 sends data up to 1.544 Mbps. E1 supports speeds to 2.048 Mbps. No matter where you need to connect—North, South, or Central America, Europe, or the Pacific Rim—T1 and E1 can get your data there—fast!

Both services provide flexibility for a multitude of applications.
Whether you need to drive a private, point-to-point line or a high-speed circuit; provide corporate access to the Internet or inbound access to your own webserver; or support a voice/data/fax/video WAN that extends halfway around the world, T1 or E1 can make the connection.

Both offer cost-effective connections.
In recent years, competition among telco service providers has led to increasingly more affordable prices for T1 and E1 services. In fact, most companies seriously considering a shift to T1 or E1 find they can negotiate even better rates with just a little comparative cost analysis.

Typical applications:
• Trunking of V.90 and ISDN remote connection to a central location.
• Accessing public Frame Relay networks for voice, fax, and data.
• Merging voice and data traffic. A single T1 or E1 line can give you several additional voice and data lines at no additional cost.
• Making LAN connections. If you’re linking LANs, a T1 or E1 line offers excellent performance.
• Sending bandwidth-intensive data such as CAD/CAM, MRI, CAT-scan images, and other graphics with large files.

Understanding the process of elimination.
If your office environment has sync equipment, and if that equipment is also used for local data communications, you should consider replacing those modems with cost-effective and versatile modem eliminators.

What does a modem eliminator do?
One modem eliminator can connect a local terminal and computer port in lieu of the pair of modems that they would normally connect to. Plus, a modem eliminator enables DCE-to-DTE data and control-signal connections that are not easily achieved by standard cables or connectors in a sync environment.

Basically, a modem eliminator simulates a sync data link. It does this two ways. First, it provides clocking, which is mandatory for sync devices to communicate. Second, it provides the handshaking that DCEs do.

Why should you use a modem eliminator?
One—if you have two sync DTEs in the same room or close to each other, you will need a modem eliminator.

Two—if you have a network with routers, you just found the perfect equipment tester.

A modem eliminator can enable in-house bench testing of routers or existing equipment. There’s no need to place routers all over your network only to find out they don’t work once you test the LAN. A modem eliminator tells you what equipment passes your tests before you install.

Three—a modem eliminator makes good economic sense. One does the job of two modems—and it does the job better. You get a high return on your investment.

ISDN stands for Integrated Services Digital Network. It’s a high-speed digital data service provided by most phone companies. With ISDN you can transmit large amounts of data, voice, and video signals up to 128 kbps over a single phone line.

The most common (and least expensive) ISDN service is Basic Rate Interface, or BRI. It’s usually used to combine voice and data circuits over one line between small-scale ISDN sites. BRI consists of two 64-kbps B channels plus a 16-kbps D channel to support system “overhead” functions, such as signaling the telecomm switching system to initiate a call.

What makes ISDN unique is that each B channel is a separate communication circuit. That means just one ISDN line can support simultaneous two-way communication for two devices, such as a computer and a telephone or a computer and a video camera for teleconferencing.

If you need to send more data than one 64-kbps B channel can handle, ISDN also supports BONDing for inverse multiplexing. This links the two B channels into a single logical circuit that can support data rates up to 128 kbps.

ISDN lines are terminated at your location with a special RJ-45 jack. There are two main interfaces. The U interface consists of two wires (one twisted pair) and is common in North America. The S/T interface consists of four unshielded wires (two twisted pairs) and is more common outside North America. Unless you already own U-compatible ISDN phones or PCs, you’ll need a terminal adapter to make the connection.

ISDN is the perfect choice when faster data rates, lower prices, and guaranteed data integrity are required. Consider it for high-volume datacomm applications such as Internet access and on-line service, telecommuting, remote-office routing, and disaster recovery. Also consider ISDN for a high-speed backup line—because you never know when you’ll need one.