Chapter 2 Card Reference

CE-100T-8 Card

The SPE from each POS mapper (up to VC4) carrying encapsulated Ethernet frames are passed onto the multiplexer/demultiplexer (mux/demux) next, where the VC4 frames from both POS mappers are multiplexed to form an VC4-4 frame for transport over the SDH network by means of the Bridging Transmission Convergence (BTC-48) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

Note Although the VC4 frames are multiplexed into an VC4-4 frame, the frame carries at most an VC4-2c payload, leaving half of the VC4-4 bandwidth free.

In the egress direction (SDH-to-Ethernet), the mux/demux extracts the first and second VC4 SPEs from the VC4-4 frame it receives from the BTC-48 before sending them to the POS mappers. The VC4 SDH SPE carrying GFP or PPP/HDLC encapsulated Ethernet frames are then extracted and buffered in the external memory of the POS mappers. This memory is used for providing alignment and differential delay compensation for the received low/high order virtual concatenated payloads. When alignment and delay compensation are complete, the Ethernet frames are decapsulated with one of the framing protocols (GFP or PPP/HDLC). Decapsulated Ethernet frames are then passed onto the packet processor for QoS queuing and traffic scheduling. The network processor switches the frame to one of the corresponding PHY channels and then onto the Ethernet port for transmission to the external clients.

With regard to QoS, the VLAN class-of-service (CoS) threshold (value 0 to 7, default 7) and the IP type-of-service (ToS) threshold (value 0 to 255, default 255) on incoming Ethernet packets are both available for priority queuing. These thresholds are provisionable through CTC, TL1, and Cisco Transport Manager (CTM). CoS takes precedence over ToS unless the CoS threshold is set to the default of 7. This threshold value does not prioritize any packets based on CoS, so ToS is used. The value configured is a threshold and any value greater than that value is set as a priority. For example, if a CoS of 5 is set as the threshold, only CoS values of 6 and 7 would be set to priority.

2.3.1 CE-100T-8 Card-Level Indicators

The CE-100T-8 card faceplate has two card-level LED indicators, described in Table 2-4.

Table 2-4 CE-100T-8 Card-Level Indicators

Card-Level LEDs

Description

 

 

SF LED (Red)

The red FAIL LED indicates that the card processor is not ready or that a

 

catastrophic software failure occurred on the CE-100T-8 card. As part of the

 

boot sequence, the FAIL LED blinks until the software deems the card

 

operational, then it turns off.

 

 

ACT LED (Green)

The ACT LED provides the operational status of the CE-100T-8. When the

 

ACT LED is green, it indicates that the CE-100T-8 card is active and the

 

software is operational; otherwise, it is off.

 

 

2.3.2 CE-100T-8 Port-Level Indicators

The CE-100T-8 card has two LEDs embedded into each of the eight Ethernet-port RJ-45 connectors. The LEDs are described in Table 2-5.

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