AIM reduces carriers' initial hardware expenditures by offering service variety over mixed local-loop transmission media, simplifying system maintenance. In summary, AIM increases a carrier's ability to address varying customer needs, providing a competitive advantage. AIM integrates diverse customer traffic, such as POTS, ISDN, IP routing, and ATM in a compact, modular platform. With AIM, carriers can deploy advanced digital communications services to virtually any location, and economically provide required services, including analog and digital voice, data, video, LAN, Intranet, and Internet. AIM's intelligence allows carriers to provision and control their networks through the local loop to customer locations.
Carriers can quickly and efficiently respond to customer demands.
With AIM's integrated SNMP agent, a network manager can perform network configuration as well as obtain performance reports, statistics, and alarm monitoring. AIM's SNMP agent can be accessed via Ethernet and serial ports, Telnet, or a common Web browser and functions with standard SNMP management platforms. Coastcom's AIM-Net software provides an easy to use graphical interface for configuring an AIM network. A large consumer products firm with offices in London, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco required voice service, LAN interconnection between offices, and Internet access for each office. It also needed the ability to quickly transfer data-intensive files, including CAD drawings, among all its offices.