Specifications

System Specifications 3-47
BPX 8600 Series Wide Area Switch
BPX 8600 Series Wide Area Switch
This section contains the physical specifications and external connection requirements for the
BPX 8600 Series wide-area switch.
Table 3-28 lists the physical specifications of the BPX 8600 series.
Table 3-29 BPX 8600 Series Switch Physical Specifications
Characteristic Description
15 module slots 2 slots reserved for redundant control and switch modules
1 slot reserved for Alarm Status Monitor (ASM) module
12 slots for general-purpose function modules
Dimensions (H x W x D) 22.75 x 17.72 x 27 in. (57.8 x 45 x 68.6 cm)
19 in (48.3 cm) rack mountable
Power requirements -48VDC or 208/240VAC input
1400W dissipation (max)
Crosspoint switch fabric Switch capacity of 20 Gbps
12 800-Mbps switch ports that can support up to OC-12 cell rate
Arbiter establishes up to 20 million cell connections per second
Network interfaces T3 (44.736 Mbps) with PLCP per TA-TY-000773
OC-3/STM-1 (155.520 Mbps) complies with SONET framing per ANSI
T1.105
E3 (34.368 Mbps) per ITU-T Rec. G.804
SDH framing per ITU-T Rec. G.708
OC-12/STM-4 (622.08 Mbps), complies with SONET standards
Bellcore GR-253-CORE, ANSI T1.105; complies with SDH standards ITU-T
G.708 and G.709; ITU-T G.957 and G.958
Common network interface features Up to 16 programmable queues for class-based or VP/VC-based queuing
Queues programmable by maximum queue depth, minimum service
bandwidth, maximum service bandwidth, cell loss priority (CLP) thresholds,
EFCI thresholds
ForeSight closed-loop, rate-based congestion management
Fully compliant ABR VS/VD implementation per ATM Forum Specification
V.4.0
Explicit rate (ER) marking
EFCI marking
Broadband service interfaces Conformance to ATM Forum Specification V.3.1:
T3/DS-3 UNI (44.736 Mbps)
OC-3 UNI (155.520 Mbps) SONET
OC-12 UNI (622 Mbps) SONET
E 3UNI (34.368 Mbps)
STM-1 UNI (155.520 Mbps) SDH
STM-4 UNI (622.08 Mbps) SDH