Specifications

Escala Tower PL & S, E,T System Hardware
Chapter 7: Communications Controllers 32/34
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Rev 5.9
02/12/2003
4.12. Fibre Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) Controllers (DCCG084, DCCG102, DCCG103,
DCCG123, DCCG124 and DCCG125)
The FDDI UTP Single Ring adapter (DCCG125) has been discontinued on the T610 and PL600T as of
31/08/2001.
DCCG123 and DCCG124 Discontinued: 30/04/2003.
The Fibre Distributed Data Interface FDDI is designed to allow an Escala system to connect to:
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Multi-mode fiber Single-Attach Station (SAS) or Dual-Attach Station (DAS)
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UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) Single Attach Station (SAS)
A FDDI LAN can be up to 100 km (62 miles) long and can include up to 500 system units. There can
be up to:
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2 km (1.24 miles) between system units or concentrators when using multi-mode fiber
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100 meters between system units or concentrators when using UTP.
Remote IPL is not supported via FDDI devices.
Hardware
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Data rate of up to 100Mbps
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PCI features:
Bus master
Memory and I/O slave
32-bit address and data width
Support of "Dual Homing"
Machine-readable Vital Product Data (VPD)
PCI short-form factor adapter (SAS or DAS)
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Physical Medium Dependent (PMD)
Fiber
ANSI X3T9.5 compliant
Up to 2 Km between nodes
SC connector
UTP
ANSI X3T12 TP-PMD compliant
Up to 100m between nodes
1 RJ45 connector
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Station Management SMT 7.3
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SNMP Management.
Cables
Fiber MIC 62.5µm Multi-mode
UTP UTP cross over category 5 cable