Data Sheet

Data Sheet
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Features Benefits
The new port adapters also include the following characteristics:
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Support for up to 128 serial data channels per port adapter interface at speeds from N x DS-0 to DS-3
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One or 2 DS-3 (T3) lines
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Twenty-eight DS-1 lines per DS-3 (T3) interface
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Asynchronous bit serial PPP/High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) delineation per RFC 1662 on all channels
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9000 maximum maximum-transmission-unit (MTU) size
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MLPPP and MLFR support for up to 168 bundles with up to 12 T1 links per bundle, 168 for the combined two interfaces; no
fractional T1s are allowed
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Provision of receive and transmit statistics for runts, giants, cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC) errors, and frame-type counts
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Support for the following serial encapsulation protocols:
Frame Relay
PPP
HDLC
DS-3
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Channelized DS-3 with 28 DS-1 lines
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Unchannelized DS-3 supporting subrate and scrambling formats for:
Digital Link DL3100
ADC/Kentrox DataSMART T3 IDSU
Larscom Access-T45
Adtran T3SU 300
Verilink DLS2100 HDM2182DSUs
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Full duplex and connectivity at DS-3 rate (44.736 Mbps per port)
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DSX-3 level interface with dual female 75-ohm BNC coaxial connectors per port (separate RX and TX)
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Bipolar-three-zero-substitution (B3ZS) line coding
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C-bit parity and M23 framing
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Internal or network clock selectable per DS-3
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Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) pattern generation and detection per DS-3
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T3 local and line loopback
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Generation and termination of DS-3 Maintenance Data Link (MDL) in C-bit framing
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RFC 1407 MIB support
DS-1
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Superframe (SF), Extended Superframe (ESF), and J1 framing
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Internal or network clock selectable per DS-1
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BERT pattern generation and detection per DS-1 or N x DS-0 channel
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Local and line loopback
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Generation and termination of Facilities Data Link (FDL) in ESF framing
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RFC 1406 MIB support
Miscellaneous
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Faceplate LEDs for port adapter status
PA Ready
Port status
Active/Loopback status
Carrier/Alarm status
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Support for LFI
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Support for FRF.12
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High- and low-priority queues for each of the 1023 HDLC channels
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Compliance with DS-3 pulse mask per ANSI T1.102-1993
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Compliance with ANSI T1.102-1993, ANSI T1.404-59, ANSI T1.404-5.10, ANSI T1.404-5.12-14, and
Telcordia GR-499
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ANSI T1.404
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ANSI T1.107
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ANSI T1.231-1997
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ANSI T1.107 Far-End Alarm and Control Signals (FEAC)
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ANSI T1.404 MDL
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ANSI FDL
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AT&T FDL
Software
Features Not
Supported
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E3 multiplexing (Channelized E3)
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MLPPP or MLFR with unequal speed links in a bundle or higher speeds than T1 in a bundle
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Loopbacks at N x DS-0 channel level