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Cisco MGX 8800/8900 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Releases 2 - 5.2, Part Number OL-4545-01, Rev. H0, May 2006
Chapter 1
Product Overviews
Cisco MGX 8880 Media Gateway
Features and Benefits
Table 1-9
lists the features and benefits of the Cisco VXSM.
Table 1-10
lists specifications for VXSM features.
Table 1-9
VXSM Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
High density
•
Scales up to 8064 VoIP DS-0s per service module
•
Lowers capital expenditures and operating expenses by maximizing density
per platform
•
Allows 40,320 VoIP DS-0s per chassis and 120,960 VoIP DS-0s per rack,
with echo cancellation
TDM interfaces
•
Offers scalable optical interfaces; available with 2- or 4-port OC-3/STM-1
interfaces per service module
•
Provides scalable electrical interfaces; up to 48 T1/E1 interfaces per service
module
High availability
Ensures carrier-class reliability by providing active call preservation
Integrated
nonblocking
architecture
Lowers entry, scaling, and operations cost by integrating TDM, network
processing, and digital-signal-processor (DSP) technology onto a single module
Table 1-10
VXSM Feature Specifications
Feature Description
Call control
H.248, MGCP, TGCP
Signaling interfaces
Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Inter-Machine Trunk (IMT); ISDN Primary Rate
Interface (PRI)
Voice compression
G.711, G.726, G.729a/b, Clear Channel
Voice features
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G.165, G.168-2000 integrated, nonblocking echo cancellation;
programmable up to 128 ms
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Transparent transcoding between a-law and µ-law encoding
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Voice Activity Detection, Silence Suppression, and Comfort Noise
Generation
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Fixed and Adaptive Jitter Buffering
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Tone detection and regeneration including dial tone, busy, ring back, and
congestion with local country variants; programmable tones
•
Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) relay (RFC 2833)
Modem and Fax
•
Fax and modem pass-through
•
T.38 Fax Relay
IP
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Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) (RFC 1889), DTMF Relay (RFC
2833), Differentiated Services (DiffServ) aware
ATM
Standards-based ATM Adaptation Layer 2 (AAL2)