Ameritec's AM2 Niagara® family of products is comprised of fully self-contained portable test instruments designed to meet the rigid demands of todays telephony applications developer in both laboratory and field applications. The AM2 Niagara, simply put, makes telephone calls - and lots of them!
Each AM2 Niagara unit allows interfacing to different line types. One model interfaces to Analog POTS lines, another to Analog P-Phones lines, others to T1, E1, PRI, BRI, and SS7. The AM2 Niagara allows users to develop a test environment with the ability to test highly complex call scenarios.
System Specifications
Capacity | Four 1.544 Mbps PCM 24 channel T1 CCS trunks |
24 timeslots (23B+D) per trunk | |
AM1 and B8ZS Line Coding | |
Menu selectable D3/D4 Framing or ESF formats | |
Interface Options | Bantam 100Ù balanced input connectors |
Bantam 120Ù balanced input connectors | |
Call Volume | AM2-DX: 48,000 confirmed calls per hour (4 spans) |
Signaling System
Signaling System Layer 1 | Complies with ANSI T1.408 |
Complies with ITU-T (CCITT) 1.412 and 1.431 | |
Signaling System Layer 2 | Q.921/LAPD and LAPB (X.25) Signaling |
Signaling System Layer 3 | Q.931 and equivalent standards |
Up to 8 different L3 protocols may be down loaded to unit | |
Menu selection of L3 protocol for each B- and D-channel | |
D- or signaling channel may be assigned to any physical time slot | |
Various international protocols supported | |
Additional protocols can be created and downloaded from Workstation or PC | |
Packet Data | X.31 Case A and Case B |
BPS: B-channel X.25 packet data | |
DPS: D-channel X.25 packet data | |
Circuit Switched: CSD: | Circuit switched data (BERT) |
CSV: Circuit switched voice |
Ameritec AM2DX