
Contents
Contents  | 3  | 
Compliance Information  | 7  | 
Radio and TV Interference  | 7  | 
Industry Canada Notice  | 7  | 
FCC Part 68 (ACTA) Statement  | 7  | 
CE Notice  | 8  | 
About this guide  | 9  | 
Audience  | 9  | 
Structure  | 9  | 
Precautions  | 10  | 
Typographical conventions used in this document  | 10  | 
General conventions  | 10  | 
Mouse conventions  | 11  | 
1 Introduction  | 13  | 
Model 6511RC Matrix Switch overview  | 14  | 
Hardware overview  | 16  | 
ForeFront chassis architectures  | 19  | 
ForeFront Model 6476 6U cPCI chassis  | 19  | 
The ForeFront Model 6676 9U chassis  | 20  | 
Matrix Switch functionality  | 21  | 
TDM mapping and aggregation  | 21  | 
TDM bus architecture  | 22  | 
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Matrix Switch TDM capacity  | 23  | 
Matrix Switch Ethernet Switching  | 23  | 
Management  | 24  | 
Management Services  | 24  | 
Management Interfaces  | 24  | 
Management Approach  | 24  | 
Matrix Switch Interfaces  | 25  | 
WAN Interfaces  | 25  | 
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LAN Interface  | 25  | 
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Power system  | 26  | 
Central processing unit  | 26  | 
System timing  | 26  | 
Clocking Mode  | 26  | 
Clocking Source  | 26  | 
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