342-86400-498PS
Issue 1.2
April 2012
Page 16
Copyright
GE Multilin Inc. 2010-2012
Note:
A maximum of 1 Gb/s Ethernet traffic can be passed between the ETHER-
1000 unit and its paddleboard in each direction.
Customer access ports are provided using either one or two quad-port plug-in
modules installed on the 86498-94 paddleboard. One
ETHER-1000 quad-port
module
and/or one
ETHER-100 quad-port module
can be equipped. These
modules have dedicated locations (Banks A and B) on the 86498-94
paddleboard.
The
ETHER-1000 quad-port module
(86498-95) equipped with two 1000 Mb/s
(SFP) and two 100 Mb/s (SFP) Ethernet ports is currently the only module type
that can be installed into Bank B.
One of the following three
ETHER-100 quad-port modules
can be installed into
Bank A:
86418-61 module with four 10/100 Mb/s (built-in RJ-45) Ethernet ports;
86418-63 module with four optical 100 Mb/s (SFP) Ethernet ports;
86418-64 module with two 10/100 Mb/s (built-in RJ-45) and two optical
100 Mb/s (SFP) Ethernet ports.
Cascading ETHER-1000 Units
A maximum of two ETHER-1000 units can be cascaded and connected to the
same CBW port on the JMUX units (Figure 3). This allows for:
-
more than 1 Gb/s of inter-bridge traffic to be added/dropped at a site (to a
maximum of 2 Gb/s in each direction);
-
providing more than 8 drop ports at a site (to a maximum of 16)
-
providing unit hardware redundancy without using additional CBW ports
and SONET bandwidth (see
Path Protection
below)
-
tying ETHER-1000 traffic between JungleMUX nodes using CBW tie
connections (addressed later in this section).