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Line cards
Description
Operation
This section describes how line cards fit into the Meridian 1 architecture, the
busses that carry signals to and from the line cards, and how they connect to
terminal equipment (see Figure 5). To fully understand the operation of these
cards, you must understand the differences between peripheral equipment
(PE) cards and intelligent peripheral equipment (IPE) cards. These
differences are summarized in Table 2.
Host interface bus
The original (SL-1 architecture) switches that Nortel Networks produced
used a bus standard for line and trunk cards called the peripheral equipment
(PE) bus. Newer switches (Meridian 1 architecture) use an improved version
of this bus: the intelligent peripheral equipment (IPE) bus. Meridian 1 based
switches are designed to be able to interface with the older PE based cards.
This allows existing SL-1 switches to be upgraded to the Meridian 1
architecture without the expense of throwing away the existing wiring, PE
modules, and line and truck cards.
Cards based on the IPE bus have a built-in microcontroller, where cards based
on the PE bus do not. The IPE microcontroller is used to perform local
diagnostics (self-test), configure the card according to instructions issued by
the Meridian 1 system processor, and report back to the Meridian 1 system
processor information such as card identification (type, vintage, and serial
number), firmware version, and programmed configuration status.
Note: IPE cards and modules should be used in all new designs. PE
equipment should only be specified when upgrading an existing
system.
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