Remote Switch Systems, Inc. 

The Intelligent Copper-Cross-Connect System (IC³S)

ICS, The copper-cross-connect system that is so unique it's patented. Make physical layer cross-connections with mouse clicks. Serving Area Interfaces Pedestals / Terminals Central Office Distributing Frames Remote Distributing Frames Customer Main Distributing Frames Inside Building Terminals High Risk Area Cross-Connect Activities

Not Evolutionary...Revolutionary
Any to Any Non-Blocking Copper-Cross-Connects to 100% Fill.

  Intelligent Copper Cross-Connect System (ICS) Presentation available to download

IC³S/ACE APPLICATIONS:

• Central Office - Automated Distribution Frame
• Outside Plant - Automated Service Area Interface
• Customer Premise - Automated Building Terminal

In today’s telecommunications environment, with its high concentration of special circuits and the demand for both better service and lower costs; REMOTE SWITCH SYSTEMS offers you the edge you need to handle all your cross-connection tasks. REMOTE SWITCH SYSTEMS is dedicated to providing reliable, proven equipment to meet your cross-connection needs. Your purchase, however, buys you more than just equipment. We provide ALL the training you need plus ANY backup support required. We are always ready to answer your questions and solve your problems. Remote Switch Systems is committed to reliable systems and excellence in service.

The Intelligent Copper-Cross-Connect System (IC³S) by Remote Switch Systems, Inc. is an entirely new technology. For the first time, electronic circuits on printed circuit boards achieve any-to-any, non-blocking cross-connections in a telecommunications or data network environment. Expand your IC³S configuration to meet your needs simply by adding ACE modules. While cable records are typically 30 percent inaccurate, the real-time database of IC³S ensures 100 percent accuracy.

INTELLIGENT COPPER-CROSS-CONNECT SYSTEM (IC³S)
The Intelligent Copper-Cross-Connect System (IC³S) is a loop management product that enables network managers to remotely control copper pair infrastructures and achieve full non-blocking, any-to-any connectivity of electronic connections in the Automated Cross-Connect Electronics (ACE) hardware. You decide where to place the ACE Hardware; in the central office, outside plant or customer premise locations. Eliminate the human resource cost and also reduce the cost per cross-connect. All of this and the added bonus of advanced performance. An operator of the WWW based ACE Pilot software can make or change cross-connections, of copper cable pair through the IC³S server, from anywhere.

• Transparent to the line - supports all services on twisted copper pair

• True metallic cross-connect is transparent to copper telephone

• Keeps your people out of dangerous areas

• No dispatch of personnel required to make or break a cross-connect.

• Allows 100% utilization

• Fully complements MLT, with internal test bus

• Eliminates the possibility of causing a secondary problem during a site visit to fix an initial problem

LOW-COST AUTOMATED, ANY TO ANY CONNECTIVITY

The IC³S system consists of the ACE Pilot software and the ACE cross-connect hardware. Costly manual cross-connect tasks are automated through the intelligence of ACE Pilot software and the sophistication of ACE hardware. The ACE hardware is placed by the telephone service provider in the central office, outside plant or customer premise locations. ACE connections are controlled remotely, without the need for onsite manual cross-connect activity.

TECHNOLOGICALLY SUPERIOR CROSS CONNECTIONS

• Maintenance-free electronics outmode mechanical devices
• Greater speed of service provisioning, either in real time or at specified date/time
• Electronic sophistication for lower cost per cross connects
• Optimal cable utilization minimizes idle assigned facilities
• RSS’s patented design provides advanced performance
• IC³S supports POTS, ISDN, DLC, T1 and XDSL services
  

MODULAR DESIGN = UNLIMITED CAPACITY

• ACE unit mounts in 19” or 23” equipment rack
• ACE unit is hardened by design for both inside and outside plant applications

SPECIFICATIONS
ACE Hardware
Physical
Height: 20.25” (11U)
Width: 17.50”
Depth: 13”
Environmental
-40oC to 80oC
0% to 98% humidity (condensing)
Power
Control Pair : -48VDC
Design Criteria
Designed to meet all criteria of Bellcore,
UL and FCC requirements.
ACE Pilot Software : is platform independant.

While other companies have been Talking about plant automation, RSS has been Doing.  RSS now provides a complete line of automated metallic cross-connect products to completely mechanize the copper network from Central Office right to the inside wiring.

Providing rugged, reliable, field proven equipment and backing it up with the service and support you'd expect from much larger companies has been the hallmark of Remote Switch Systems' success.  From our headquarters in Loveland, Colorado, where our products are manufactured, tested, and shipped, we are committed to providing you with quality products at a reasonable price.

Meeting your needs: we're not just talking about it, we're doing it.

Decated to providing you with innovate, cost-effective cable pair cross-connect devices to improve service, increase efficiency, and make your job safer and easier.

IC³S is a unique system that brings the benefits of technology to the high cost area of cable pair cross-connect activity.

In today's telecommunications environment, with its high concentration of special circuits and the demand for better service and lower costs; Remote Switch Systems offers you the edge you need to handle all your cross-connection tasks.

Remote Switch Systems is dedicated to providing reliable, proven equipment to meet your cross-connection needs.  Your purchase, however, buys you more than just equipment.  We provide ALL the training you need plus ANY backup support required.   We are always ready to answer your questions and solve your problems.  RSS is committed to reliable systems and excellence in service.

This unique product, coupled with RSS quality service and support professionals will have your company making profits today with the services of tomorrow...

The IC³S system is an electronically controlled, remotely actuated metallic physical layer cross-connect system for copper twisted pairs.

A cross-connect on the IC³S is remotely actuated from the ACE Pilot software. This makes it unnecessary to send personnel to serving area interfaces , aerial closures, pedestal points, building terminals and distribution frames to install or remove a cross-connect. For this reason, the IC³S system provides an exceptionally cost-effective method of performing cross-connects, particularly in unmanned locations, such as: controlled environmental vaults (CEV), HUTS and remote central offices.The IC³S system is ideal in areas where there are frequent changes to the network, such as: industrial parks, medical clinics, apartment complexes, retirement homes, marinas, local area networks (LAN) and other applications in which circuits are being changed frequently.

ACE Pilot Software

The ACE Pilot software maintains an 100% accurate inventory of cross-connections for the all ICS equipment that it controls. The system communicates with the ICS via a modem over the public switched telephone network.  The following functions can be performed:

• determine and display the current cross-connects
• assign (and un-assign) input terminations to (or from) output terminations
• provide test connections on input/output terminations

The procedures for assigning a cross-connect from the software are designed to be simple and straight forward. These procedures are described in detail in the ICS User’s and Administrator’s manuals. The following is a brief summary of the options available to the operator.

ASSIGN : make or break a cross-connection immediately or at a specified time, mark a pair as cut through, mark an output pair as defective

EXCEPTION: mark an input pair as being defective, enter an explanation, view input connectivity

MAINTENANCE : attach a test condition to an input pair or temporarily break a cross-connect for testing purposes

REPORTS : display or print connection reports on: assigned, exception, maintenance conditioned and spare pairs

HELP : With the F1 function key, full-featured help is always available to aid the operator.

The ICS switch card contains double-pole, single-throw, latching relays. These relays maintain contact without any supplied power. Non-blocking switch architecture (connect any input to any output) cross-connect system for copper twisted pairs. This makes it unnecessary to send personnel to aerial closures, pedestals or any other network distribution point to install or remove a cross-connect. For this reason, the IC³S system provides an exceptionally cost-effective method of performing cross-connects and increasing the utilization of copper twisted pair distribution facilities, particularly in remote locations and environmentally unsafe areas.