What Everyone Should Know About The ADTRAN Total Access 908e

When you're looking to outfit your company with the latest in Internet and telephony solutions, there is a dizzying world of options on the market. Business telephony is huge business, and it can often be hard to tell exactly what your business needs.

The ADTRAN Total Access 908e is one of the best all-around solutions on the market for a business that needs to mix both IP and traditional copper-wire telephone services into a single unified enterprise telecommunications system.

Built by ADTRAN, a current frontrunner in communications and virtualization equipment, the Adtran 908e combines an affordable price with a robust feature set that makes it an optimal choice for your business's needs.

Let's take a look at what makes this one of the most popular business SIP gateways on the market.

Key Features of the ADTRAN Total Access 908e Gateway

No matter what mix of equipment you have in your offices, the ADTRAN Total Access 908e can support it. Out of the box, it features:

• Upgraded CPU (Gen 3)
• Four T1 WAN Interfaces
• Two Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces (Gen 3)
• 8 Analog FXS Interfaces
• An integrated DSX-1 system for hosting your own PBX interface
• Up to 24 analog POTS interfaces

This is a router designed primarily for companies looking to migrate off of copper wire and into pure IP telephony. It supports a full range of current hardware and communications standards, but is also forward-looking and ready for the next generation of telephony solutions just as soon as you are.

ADTRAN Brings You AOS

Every Total Access 908e gateway also comes powered with ADTRAN's own AOS operating system, designed from the ground up to provide powerful solutions to your communications and networking needs. AOS scales with you as your telephony scales.AOS features:

• A traditional Command Line Interface (CLI) that closely mimics the de facto CLIs in use in most businesses today, which can be used by someone with networking experience with little, if any, additional training necessary.
• A full-featured Graphical User Interface (GUI) suitable for use by non-specialists, with step-by-step guides through setting up your ADTRAN equipment.
• A web interface that can be accessed from anywhere, granting your network admins greater power in administrating, even remotely.
• Robust security features, including a full-featured “smart” firewall which can detect and stop even advanced attacks such as Denial-of-Service, request flooding, IP spoofing, and other attacks commonly targeted at enterprise networks.
  

ADTRAN Protects Your Communications

Among the advanced features of the 908e is its remote survivability abilities. Even if your wide-area network or local analog phone services became unavailable, the 908e can continue to power local in-building communications, preventing work disruption due to unscheduled outages.To save your bandwidth, ADTRAN implements the G.729a voice compression standard, which delivers call quality well beyond that of traditional telephones, but with a minimal hit to your network bandwidth rates. Smart features within the hardware and AOS further attempt to dynamically balance and schedule packet delivery to minimize bandwidth use.

And on top of that, it comes in a rugged metal case that should protect it against any accidental damage, and comes with a standard five-year warranty for all North American customers.In short, if your business has come to realize that it's being held back by its reliance on traditional telephony services, the ADTRAN Total Access 908e is the perfect gateway to your business's telecommunications future. With excellent product quality and renowned customer service, this is a purchase that is easily justified.

Please contact us if you have any questions about ADTRAN gateways, or any other communication needs you may have.