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Cisco MGX 8850 (PXM45) and MGX 8950 Software Configuration Guide

Release 3, Part Number 78-14788-01 Rev. C0, January 2004

APPENDIX

Standards Compliance

This appendix lists the relevant technical and compliance specifications for the Cisco MGX 8850

Release 3 PXM45 and PXM1E based PNNI controllers, PNNI, and ATM switched virtual circuits in the

following sections:

• PNNI Compliance

• ATM Signaling Compliance

• Processor Switching Module Specifications

• UNI 4.0

• AINI 3.0 and 3.1

Note This appendix is not a comprehensive list of all the standards that are supported on the Cisco MGX 8850

Release 3 PXM45 and PXM1E based switch. To verify the support of a specific standard that is not listed

in this appendix, please contact your Cisco account representative.

PNNI Compliance

The PXM45 and PXM1E based PNNI routing software was designed to be compliant with 1 below. The

software supports robust topology convergence, dynamic and QoS based routing in hierarchical ATM

networks with scalability from small to very large networks.

Other specifications to which the PNNI routing conforms are as follows:

1. ATM Forum, “PNNI Specification Version 1.0,” af-pnni-0055.000, March 1996

2. ATM Forum, “PNNI V1.0 Errata and PICS,” af-pnni-0081.000, March 1997

3. ATM Forum, “Interim Inter-switch Signaling Protocol (IISP) Specification Version 1.0,”

af-pnni-0026.000, December 1994

4. AINI

5. PNNI v2.0 draft

6. Path and Connection Trace