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OC12 Packet Over SONET Line Card Installation and Configuration
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Despite the name, SONET is not limited to optical links. Electrical specifications have been defined for
CATV 75-ohm coaxial cable. Transmission rates are integer multiples of 51.840 Mbps, which can be
used to carry T3/E3 bit-synchronous signals.
The following transmission multiples are currently specified and commonly used:
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STS-3c—155.520 Mbps
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STS-12c—622.080 Mbps (the OC12 POS line card conforms to STS-12c)
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STS-48c—2.488 Gbps
The following references discuss concepts and specifications of POS and PPP:
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Simpson, W., Editor, The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), RFC 1512, Daydreamer, December 1993.
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Simpson, W., Editor, PPP in HDLC Framing, RFC 1662, Daydreamer, July 1994.
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Simpson, W., Editor, PPP Over SONET/SDH, RFC 1619, Daydreamer, May 1995.
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American National Standard for Telecommunications - Digital Hierarchy - Optical Interface Rates
and Formats Specification, ANSI T1.105-1991.
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American National Standard for Telecommunications - Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Payload Mappings, ANSI T1.105.02-1993 draft.
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ITU-T Recommendation G.707, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Bit Rates, June 1992.
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Telecordia GR-253-CORE SONET: Common generic criteria, September 2000.
Features
The OC12 POS line card has the following features:
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Short-reach (7300-1OC12POS-MM and 7300-2OC12POS-MM), intermediate-reach
(7300-1OC12POS-SMI and 7300-2OC12POS-SMI), and long-reach (7300-1OC12POS-SML and
7300-2OC12POS-SML) optical interface with single-mode optical fiber
Note
For information on the type of cables to use with the OC12 POS line card, see the
POS Line Card Optical Fiber Specifications” section on page 1-5
Connectors” section on page 1-8
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Online insertion and removal (OIR) in the Cisco 7304 router, allowing you to remove, add, or
replace an OC12 POS line card online
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Support for 16-bit and 32-bit cyclic redundancy checking (CRC-16 and CRC-32)
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Support for Synchronous Payload Envelope (SPE) scrambling
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Supports HDLC encapsulation
Interface Specifications
The physical layer interface for the OC12 POS line card is Optical Carrier-12 (OC-12c, the specification
for SONET STS-12c and SDH STM-4 transmission rates), and the OC12 POS line card is designed to
comply with Packet-over-SONET specifications. The OC12 POS line card provides a single
622.080-Mbps Packet OC-12 network interface for all supported platforms.