Consolidating applications on ATM circuits reduces transmission costs. This advanced management capability gives service providers the ability to respond rapidly to the demands of customers. On a single platform, AIM supports customer requirements for data, video, fax, modem, LAN, intranet, Internet, imaging, and analog and digital voice. With AIM, a service provider can easily deploy advanced digital-communications services to any location, and manage services from a single platform attached to any AIM network node. AIM's IP-based operating system provides a high degree of networking intelligence, ensuring network availability.
Service providers can select optimal transmission types for cost and performance criteria.
As the service provider adds new customers to an AIM network, services are provisioned by adding service modules to slots on an AIM shelf, or add shelves for increased service module capacity. Bandwidth Efficiency AIM manages trunk bandwidth with programmable bandwidth allocation. Programmability enables the service provider to allocate bandwidth to specific customers on an as-required basis. For fault tolerance, AIM nodes are easily configured with redundant power, common controllers, and port interfaces. AIM's IP signaling system automatically reroutes customer traffic around failed transmission facilities.