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Chapter 3 Electrical Cards
3.3 3.2.5 EC1-12 Port-Level Indicators

3.2.5 EC1-12 Port-Level Indicators

You can obtain the status of the EC1-12 card ports by using the LCD screen on the ONS 15454 fan tray.
Use the LCD to view the status of any port or card slot; the screen displays the number and severity of
alarms for a given port or slot.
3.3 DS1-14 and DS1N-14 Cards
Note For hardware specifications, see the “A.5.2 DS1-14 and DS1N-14 Card Specifications” section on
page A-16.
The ONS 15454 DS1-14 card provides 14 Telcordia-compliant, GR-499 DS-1 ports. Each port operates
at 1.544 Mbps over a 100-ohm, twisted-pair copper cable. The DS1-14 card can function as a working
or protect card in 1:1 protection schemes and as a working card in 1:N protection schemes. Each DS1-14
port has digital signal cross-connect frame (DSX)-level outputs supporting distances up to 655 feet (200
meters).
The DS1-14 card supports 1:1 protection. The DS1-14 can be a working card in a 1:N protection scheme
with the proper backplane EIA and wire-wrap or AMP Champ connectors. You can also provision the
DS1-14 to monitor for line and frame errors in both directions.
You can group and map DS1-14 card traffic in STS-1 increments to any other card in an ONS 15454
except DS-3 cards. Each DS-1 is asynchronously mapped into a SONET VT1.5 payload and the card
carries a DS-1 payload intact in a VT1.5. For performance monitoring purposes, you can gather
bidirectional DS-1 frame-level information (LOF, parity errors, cyclic redundancy check [CRC] errors,
and so on).

3.3.1 DS1N-14 Features and Functions

The DS1N-14 card supports the same features as the DS1-14 card in addition to enhanced protection
schemes. The DS1N-14 is capable of 1:N (N <= 5) protection with the proper backplane EIA and
wire-wrap or AMP Champ connectors. The DS1N-14 card can function as a working or protect card in
1:1 or 1:N protection schemes.
Table 3-3 EC1-12 Card-Level Indicators
Card-Level Indicators Description
Red FAIL LED The red FAIL LED indicates that the EC1-12 card processor is not ready.
Replace the unit if the FAIL LED persists.
Green ACT LED The green ACT LED indicates that the EC1-12 card is operational and ready
to carry traffic.
Amber SF LED The amber SF LED indicates a signal failure or condition such as loss of
signal (LOS), loss of frame (LOF) or high BER on one or more card ports.