Specifications

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Cisco BPX 8600 Series Installation and Configuration
Release 9.3.0, Part Number 78-10674-01 Rev. D0, July 2001
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BPX Switch Common Core Components
This chapter describes theBPX Switch’s common core hardware components:
• Broadband Controller Card (BCCs)
• 19.2 Gbps Operation with the BCC-4V
• Alarm/Status Monitor Card
• BPX Switch StrataBus 9.6 and 19.2 Gbps Backplanes
The BPX switch Common Core group includes the components shown in Figure 3-1:
• Broadband Controller Cards:
– BCC-4 backcard
– or BCC-32 and associated BCC15-BC backcard
Note The BCC-4 is required for VSI and MPLS features operation
• Alarm/Status Monitor (ASM), a Line Module for the ASM card (LM-ASM).
• StrataBus backplane.
The BCC-4V provides a 16 x 32 crosspoint switch architecture to extend the BPX peak switching
capability from 9.6 up to 19.2 Gbps peak. The BCC-4V also provides 4 MBytes of BRAM and 128
MBytes of DRAM.
The functions of the common core components include:
• ATM cell switching.
• Internal node communication.
• Remote node communication.
• Node synchronization.
• Network management communications (Ethernet), local management (RS-232).
• Alarm and status monitoring functions.