Sprint Customer Premises Equipment

Overview

Your communications network relies on a host of internetworking products to provide your business the connectivity it needs. No matter how complex your network, Sprint provides simple, cost-effective equipment solutions.

Routers	Hubs
Switching Hubs	ATM/CPE
Bridges	Multiplexing
Channel Banks	Inverse Multiplexers
Frame Relay Access Devices	CSU/DSU

Related Topics:

Structured Wiring
Managed Network Services
Sprint Centurion Service

Sprint is a leader in advanced data communication services and the world's largest carrier of Internet traffic. We provide quality service and expertise in leading technologies.

Routers: The heart of your network solution.

At Sprint we realize you need access to information quickly. Networking technologies from Sprint enable anyone within your enterprise to obtain that information in a timely manner, no matter where the data resides. The barriers of time and distance disappear, resulting in faster response and significant cost savings. At the heart of these Sprint technologies are routers.

Routers from Sprint allow workstations and other devices on a local area network (LAN) to be connected to and communicate with external networks, including other LANs, wide area networks (WANs) or the Internet. Using a variety of data transmission standards, or protocols, routers determine the most efficient path for data to follow in order to reach its appropriate destination.

High-performance connections

A typical network/router configuration. Router technology can be employed with virtually any network configuration.

From simple LAN installations to high-speed voice, data or video networks, our routers -- combined with Sprint technical service -- provide complete compatibility with legacy equipment and all major suppliers of hubs and routers. Our routers are supplied by industry leaders such as Cisco, Nortel Networks and 3Com, and others to offer your company robust, scaleable internetworking capabilities for all bandwidths. This allows us to fill virtually any need, including:

Video conferencing
High-speed data transfers
Multimedia
Image processing, including medical imaging
3-D modeling and scientific applications
Collaborative applications between locations or around the world
Fax
And more!

We can ensure that the equipment you buy or lease today can adapt to any networking protocol, including ATM, frame relay, TCP/IP, X.25 and many others. So as technologies change, your investment is secure.

Router management

Eliminate the management and the routine administrative burden from your IS personnel. Sprint provides everything you need, from network design and installation to ongoing service. Sprint Managed Network Services will monitor your network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, giving you the ultimate in reliability and peace of mind for mission-critical applications.

Hubs: Keeping your team connected.

Fast access to shared data and information resources can provide the competitive advantage your business needs. That means more computers, tightly integrated into a network. With the right equipment, your network can easily serve all kinds of information -- voice, data and video -- to all members of your team.

That's the purpose of network hubs from Sprint. Network hubs allow multiple workstations and network devices to be connected to a local area network (LAN). Hubs provide the connections that allow LANs to grow. These, in turn, can be linked with outside networks such as a wide area network (WAN) or the Internet, using a variety of data transmission standards or protocols.

High-performance connections

A typical LAN configuration utilizing a hub for external network access.
Hubs can be employed with virtually any network configuration.

Sprint utilizes hubs from industry leaders such as Nortel Networks, 3Com, Cabletron and others to offer your company robust, scaleable networking capabilities at virtually any bandwidth. From simple LAN installations to high-speed voice, data or video networks, our hubs -- combined with Sprint technical service -- provide complete compatibility with legacy equipment, including:

Workstations
PBX systems
Data communications equipment
Multiplexers (MUX)
All types of networking protocols: IP, ATM, frame relay, X.25 and more

Sprint can ensure that the equipment you buy or lease today is ready to handle the demanding applications you'll need tomorrow, such as multimedia, image and video processing, 3-D modeling and collaborative applications.

Hub management

Sprint provides everything you need, from network design and installation to ongoing service. Sprint Managed Network Services can also eliminate much of the routine administrative burden from your IS personnel. Sprint MNS will monitor your network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, giving you the ultimate in reliability and peace of mind for your mission-critical applications.

Switching Hubs: Keeping data transfer fast and smooth.

With everyone in your enterprise taking advantage of your powerful network, you may experience some high-traffic slowdowns. Switching Hubs from Sprint are designed to increase throughput and solve bottlenecks at crucial network junctions.

These switches support a broad range of network technologies such as Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI and ATM. They can be used in workgroups, departmental LANs, central data centers and even remote offices -- wherever you need a simple yet powerful way to boost the performance of your network.

How can your business use intelligent hub technology?

Allow separate LAN-based workforces to work together as a single team, enhancing creativity and increasing productivity.
Enhance performance without having to upgrade adapter cards and LAN media.
Take advantage of powerful LAN applications, such as distributed database applications and transferring graphics and images between workstations.
Interconnect mainframe computers and mass storage devices.

Sprint provides complete integrated solutions for your internal, external and internetworking needs. We utilize switching solutions from industry leaders such as Cisco, Nortel Networks, 3Com and others to offer your company robust, scaleable internetworking capabilities for all bandwidths.

ATM/CPE: Asynchronous Transfer Mode/Customer Premises Equipment.

An ATM/CPE switch is a multipurpose platform that can be equipped with a variety of interface cards (such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, T1, T3, OC3, etc.) and a variety of software packages (such as frame relay, voice compression, interLAN switching, ATM UNI, leased lines, etc.). An ATM switch facilitates access to network services by enterprise networking devices.

Sprint offers network designers and managers unparalleled flexibility to optimize the switch. We will work with you to deliver a network designed for optimal price and performance, bandwidth efficiency and operational simplicity -- one that meets your business requirements.

Sprint provides complete integrated solutions for your internal, external and internetworking needs. We utilize ATM/CPE products from industry leaders such as Nortel, Cisco, Fore and others to deliver your company robust, scaleable internetworking capabilities at all bandwidths.

Bridges: Seamless connectivity for your LANs.

Bridges connect two similar LANs -- Ethernet to Ethernet, for example. Bridges make multiple LANs appear as one to the user, even though the LANs are separate. Sprint offers a full range of bridges for virtually any type of LAN.

Multiplexing: Get the most from your network.

Multiplexing is a way of transmitting more than one voice conversation or data stream simultaneously over a single transmission circuit. A multiplexer combines lower-speed signals into a single high-speed signal for transmission. The high-speed signal is then separated into lower-speed signals, or demultiplexed, at the receiving end. Multiplexers are designed for both switched and dedicated circuits. They transmit over copper, fiber or digital microwave.

Benefits

Allows users to take advantage of high speeds while allowing operational, financial and design economies.
Combines existing equipment and slow transmission rates into one higher-speed facility as your network grows.
Provides the capability and flexibility of software control to perform switching, remote diagnostics, time-of-day routing and more. Software control also gives system administrators the flexibility of changing multiplexer configurations by adding or deleting channels.

Channel Banks: Intelligent multiplexing.

A channel bank is equipment that multiplexes signals from multiple lower-speed channels into a single higher-frequency signal. Digital, or intelligent, channel banks are designed for analog and digital input and modulate signals using pulse code modulation (PCM). Intelligent Channel Banks are used to multiplex voice and data channels for T1 transmission to channelize service to a PBX and other digital applications.

A T1 channel bank from Sprint provides intelligent multiplexing of up to 24 different voice, high-speed data and low-speed data signals (both digital and analog) for T1 transmission.

Inverse Multiplexers: Increase your bandwidth.

An inverse multiplexer is equipment that combines several, lower-speed circuits to make up one circuit for greater bandwidth. Inverse multiplexers also pull together and synchronize multiple channels at the receiving end of a data, voice or video transmission.

FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device.

A frame relay access device (FRAD) is equipment with the primary function of assembling and disassembling various data protocols into frame relay packets for transfer over a public or private wide area frame relay network. FRADs also provide support for time-sensitive applications such as legacy traffic or voice traffic through the use of synchronous or asynchronous ports.

CSU/DSU: Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit.

Much like a modem, CSU/DSU equipment converts data signals from computers, digital PBX systems and other equipment into a format that is transmittable across a particular digital network. A DSU on the receiving end reconverts the signal into its appropriate form. The CSU also provides loopback testing and protects the network from electrical surges. CSU/DSU equipment may be stand-alone, or it may be integrated into another device, such as a multiplexer.