Meridian 1 Remote Services

Whether your business is spread across a campus or multiple geographic locations, the Meridian 1 Remote Services portfolio provides the optimal solution to meet your remote communication needs. Besides using Meridian 1's powerful ISDN capabilities to link multiple locations, you also have the option to choose among a flexible range of remote service products. These products include Fiber Remote, Fiber Remote Multi-IPE, Carrier Remote, Line-Side T1 Interface, and Off-Premise Station (OPS) Analog Line Card. Each remote solution is designed to extend the value and power of the Meridian 1 to your entire organization and to provide you with the best return on your investment.

Single Switch Solutions

Fiber Remote, Fiber Remote Multi-IPE, Carrier Remote and our most recent offering, Mini Carrier Remote, each offer a cost-effective, single switch solution. With centralized operation, administration and maintenance, you can significantly reduce operating costs. In addition, since a single Meridian 1 system is providing services for both local and remote users, all users take advantage of the same features and services.

Fiber Remote and Fiber Remote Multi-IPE are the products of choice for a campus or high rise building equipped with fiber. With either solution, you can extend an Intelligent Peripheral Equipment (IPE) shelf to your remote facilities using dark fiber cable pairs. Fiber Remote is ideally suited for smaller remote sites requiring up to 256 ports while Fiber Remote Multi-IPE is more appropriate for mid-range to larger remote sites. Both products deliver superior reliability through optional redundant fiber links.

The performance of these links is constantly monitored, providing your remote locations with improved survivability from fiber breaks and optical deterioration. If ever required, switch-over and recovery are fully automatic. Both products are
available in two packaging options, a wall mounted cabinet configuration which offers a reduced footprint that enables you to overcome space limitations, or floor standing modules which can be stacked in a column up to four modules in height. Both options allow you to easily add more lines as your organization grows.

To provide communication services to multiple geographic locations, you can use Carrier Remote or Mini Carrier Remote to extend an IPE shelf to remote facilities using standard T-1 circuits (Carrier Remote can also support E1 circuits). Mini Carrier Remote is the industry's first remote to provide survivability in the event of a link failure. It can support 1 or 2 T-1 links or fractional T-1 for even the smallest remote offices. Mini Carrier Remote is the optimized choice for small remote sites (under 112 ports) or sites that require survivability. It is packaged in a wall-mounted cabinet.

Carrier Remote provides you with the flexibility to choose from 1 to 3 T-1 or E-1 circuits. In addition, you can provision one of those circuits as a redundant link to provide increased reliability with a back-up connection for your remote sites. Carrier Remote is available in wall-mounted or floor-standing packaging options and is ideally suited for mid-range remote sites up to 256 ports.

Off-Premise Extensions

Another alternative for providing communications to remote locations is the Line-Side T-1 Interface. This new line card can be used to provide off-premise extensions to remote locations. Analog telephone functionality is extended over T-1 facilities and channel bank units, providing the telephone at the remote site with full access to 2500-type line functionality.

The OPS Analog Line Card is another remote service that provides the ability to extend features and services to 500/2500-type telephones located remotely from the Meridian 1. This card interfaces with fax, key systems, Centrex, and
other external equipment requiring a standard analog line interface. It also provides inherent lightning and power cross protection typically required for off-premise locations or campus environments. If required, unused ports can be
configured as regular on-premise analog lines.

With X11 Release 21 or later, the Supervised Analog Lines (SAL) feature used with Line-side T-1 Interface and OPS Analog Line Card allows remote telephones to receive call supervision, battery reversal supervision and disconnect supervision from the Meridian 1.