User`s manual

DT-6061 User's Manual - Platform (Build 16.0)
11/12/04 Datatek Applications Inc. 8
1 INTRODUCTION
The DT-6061 (Embedded Network Processor) is a network applications computer that applies
customer specific protocol operations (protocol translation and termination) of network
connections that require such a function in a distributed network.
The DT-6061 supports a multitude of applications, and may support combinations of these
applications simultaneously. The elements common to all applications are provided by the DT-
6061 hardware and operating environment. In addition, the DT-6061 has an SNMP agent that is
completely independent of any application.
The basic configuration for the DT-6061 may be as follows:
IP
Network Element
Specific Protocol
Network Element
IP
Network
IP Hosts
IP
DT-6061
In the above figure representing a generic configuration for a DT-6061, the Network Element (NE)
communicates with IP Hosts over an IP Network using the DT-6061 as an intermediary for
protocol conversion / termination. The NE uses its specific communications protocol to talk
through a DT-4000 or some other device(s) that will bridge the NE with an IP infrastructure. The
DT-6061 running one of its custom applications performs the necessary protocol translation or
termination allowing the NE and IP-Hosts to ultimately communicate.
1.1 MULTIPLE APPLICATION SUPPORT
The DT-6061 can support one or more different types of applications and multiple instances of
each application. An application instance can be described as a unit of configuration parameters
as a specific DT-6061 application defines them. In other words, each instance of an application
is a completely separate process where all aspects of the configuration and operation of the
application are performed entirely within that process.