ACME Electronics is a medium size business specializing in Lighting controls and systems. Acme's main clients are consumers of Home Improvement outlets and Installing Electrical Contractors. This company has recently decided to upgrade the intercommunications network. This memo will highlight the advantages as well as disadvantages of the system chosen to be installed.
The system chosen to replace the legacy PBX switching system will be the NEC's NEAX 2000 IPS. The headquarters of ACME Electronics is spread between four buildings. The NEC NEAX 2000 IPS supports distributed processor architecture. This means that the processing requirements of the system are shared between more than processor. This allows for faster response times and redundant operation. If one processor fails, the other can take over. Two of the four buildings are equipped with 1 Pentium 200 MHz Processor dedicated to the inter-communications system.
The main advantage of using this system is that is supports voice over IP (VoIP) services such as IP-Centrex. IP Centrex is a service that provides a single broadband access point to a company. The company can use this access point to broadcast packets of voice data. When no voice data is present, more bandwidth is available to other uses of the company. This results in saved money to the company because dedicated phone lines are not needed.
The new communications system will be installed using the existing cabling. The connection that will be used to tie the buildings together will use fiber as a transmission medium. Each of the four buildings is tied together using previously installed multi-mode fiber optic cable. Prior to the installat ...