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Delhi-based
Coral Telecom, recently launched its IRIS IVDX (Integrated
Voice & Data Exchange) series of high-end EPABX systems.
IRIS is an indigenously designed switch capable of simultaneous
switching of data and voice. “This is the first switch
of its kind in the market. Till recently, most vendors had
been supplying voice and data switching equipment as standalone
systems,” avers Rajesh Tuli, managing director, Coral
Telecom. The company has been working for over two years on
this project. It is priced at Rs 2,400 per port for only voice
application and Rs 3,200 for both voice and data. The service
is available all over the country and also in specified locations
overseas.
 The
switch provides 64 KBPS Internet access to standard telephone
extensions in comparison to 32 KBPS in conventional switches.
Apart from dial-up, it is also compatible with very high speed
Internet access for extensions at 1.5 Mbps. Simultaneous voice
and data transmission is made possible in ADSL extensions.
ADSL cards that can be used as a CO side DSLAM (Digital Subscriber
Line Access Multiplexer). The card provides ADSL lines to
subscribers based on splitter less ADSL- G-lite with maximum
download speeds of 1.5 MBPS and upload speeds of 64 KBPS.
On the back plane, the ADSL can be connected to an ATM backbone.
“This
is a convergence of New World technology with Old World existing
products,” asserted Tuli. He also said that the product
would be beneficial to almost everybody since it uses only
copper and not fibre. “Not even multinationals and big
hotels who have built in infrastructure with copper would
be able to restructure every thing just to shift to fibre.
Our switch uses copper thereby eliminating the need for restructuring,”
he explained. Every small and medium sized company can also
make use of this technology since unlike an IP phone that
does not cost less than Rs 20,000, IRIS is much cheaper and
easier to install since it uses copper instead of fibre.
Targeted at large enterprises, SMEs, SOHO and large housing
societies that need switches which are compact and have the
capabilities of city exchanges along with a host of other
features, the switch boasts of an extremely compact design
achieved by using VLSI (Very large scale integration) chipsets
that reduce the number of components. Each of its cards can
support up to 32 ports. “This reduction of components
in the circuit reduces the fault liability of the system and
consequently makes the design very rugged and stable,”
says Tuli.
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