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The NTC STM-1 also transmits upstream data back to the service provider via ATM on the STM-1 physical layer.
The Cisco 6200 uses a fixed mapping of permanent virtual channels (PVCs) between trunk and subscriber ports. This means that no configuration of these circuits is required. Thirty-one PVCs link each subscriber port to the trunk port on the NTC. These subscriber traffic PVCs are assigned virtual channel identifiers (VCIs) 33 through 63. VCIs 0 through 31 are reserved for control traffic. All of these VCs use virtual path identifier (VPI) 0. See the Cisco 6200 User Guide for instructions on using the command show dsl vcmap to display the VCIs assigned to a particular slot or port.
The NTC STM-1 collects ATM cell counts, which are accessible through the 6200 Management
Information Base (MIB). These cell count include:
Number of nonidle cells transmitted upstream
Number of nonidle downstream cells received with good or correctable header checksums
Number of downstream cells received with uncorrectable header checksums
The NTC STM-1 provides bidirectional adaptation between serial ATM cells within the STM-1 fiber and the 16-bit-parallel format on the backplane’s 160-Mbps H-bus. Three basic circuits perform this adaptation process:
Optical interface
Upstream data transfer
Downstream data transfer
Figure 1-7 shows how the three circuits interact.
Figure 1-7 NTC STM-1 Application
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The optical interface performs the optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical conversions. Its other tasks include clock recovery, cell delineation, and diagnostic information retrieval.
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