Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch 9500, Hardware And Installation Manual

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Introduction
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Overview
The 9A600 (shown in Figure 1-1) is a 5.4 Gbps, single slot module for the
SmartSwitch 9500 chassis. Up to four ATM Network Interface Modules (ANIMs)
of any type can be plugged into the 9A600 to provide front panel connectivity to
the network. Cabletron Systems ANIMs can support up to 622 Mbps of
bandwidth per port. The 9A600 switches data between the ANIMs that are
installed in the module.
Through its distributed switching architecture, the 9A600 allows all the modules
in the chassis to appear as a single entity, with a single IP address and a single
ATM address. The individual i960 processors are transparent to the network
manager and management applications. A fully loaded SmartSwitch 9500 chassis
appears as a single switch, with one IP address, and one ATM address.
The 9A600 is fully compatible with the following ATM Forum speciÞcations:
¥ Integrated Local Management Interface (ILMI) 4.0 for autoconÞguration.
¥ UNI v3.0 /3.1 and v4.0 for signalling.
¥ ATM Forum P-NNI 1.0 and IISP 3.0/3.1 routing speciÞcations for establishing
connections between ATM switches.
¥ IETF AToM MIB (RFC 1695) and AToM II MIB.
¥ LANE 1.0 for the management LAN Emulation Client.