The Crocus E3 MUX is part of the Crocus TDM access solution
and offers a comprehensive solution for the concentration of
up to sixteen 2 Mbps E1 based traffic streams onto a single
34 Mbps E3 connection.
The operation is based on a two-stage concentration
mechanism. In a first stage, 4 E1 channels can be
concentrated onto an 8 Mbps internal E2 circuit.
The second stage concentrates 4 of these E2 circuits onto a
34 Mbps E3 circuit. Each E2 circuit can accept either a quad
E1 module or a 10/100 Base-T module with integrated bridge
or router functionality.
This modular design allows to scale the number of E1 input
circuits with the needs of the end-user, and allows the
combination of the E1 data with Ethernet based traffic.