
Ethernet Over SONET
Product Features
■Three individual Ethernet ports
■Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) as per ITU-T G.7041
■Operates in any
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■Front panel
■Fully programmable and remotely manageable
■Front panel indicators:
–Power/status
–Link (per port)
–Activity (per port)
■High-order and low-order virtual concatenation
■Industry-leading, 10-year warranty
Carriers are looking to increase revenues and one avenue is to convert existing DS3 clients to Ethernet. This offers higher prices and hence revenue, but at a lower price per bit basis.
The ADTRANTM
ADTRAN’s
•Ethernet over SONET (EoS) interfaces for the
•Up to three
•Up to 12 modules per
•Each port is provisionable at 10Mb or 100 Mb
•Ethernet frame encapsulation/decapsu- lation protocols:
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–RFC1662/2878, PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)
•IEEE 802.3 half duplex and full duplex mode on
•IEEE 802.3 Management Statistics (RMON) support
•Mapping and demapping of encapsu- lated Ethernet frames into and from
•Mapping and demapping of encapsulated Ethernet frames into and from a single contiguous concatenated
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