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is in 21R), the cards in the MS at the other end of the link must also be provisioned in slot 21. This example is shown in figure 9.

Figure 9 Example of DMS-bus intermessage switch configuration

NT9X20BB DS512

 

NT9X20BB DS512

fiber paddle board

Intermessage switch link

fiber paddle board

MS

 

MS

 

Intermessage switch link

 

NT9X17DA port card

 

NT9X17DA port card

The following cards must also be provisioned on each switch:

a minimum of 16 Mbyte of memory using one of the following card configurations:

one NT9X13DB CPU card and one NT9X14DB memory card

one NT9X13NA CPU card

one NT9X49CB MS tracer card

DMS-bus external MS provisioning

Just as the SuperNode core requires access to the DMS-bus, so do peripherals. Therefore, DMS-bus port engineering is required.

297-8991-910 Standard 03.01 August 1999

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