Cisco Systems 8600 Series manual Organization

Organization

Organization

This publication is organized as follows:

Chapter 1	Introduction
	Describes the overall operation of the BPX 8600 Series wide-area switches
	and associated peripherals.
Chapter 2	General Description
	Provides an overall physical and functional description of the BPX switch.
	The physical description includes the BPX enclosure, power, and cooling
	subsystems. The functional description includes an overview of BPX switch
	operation.
Chapter 3	BPX Switch Common Core
	Describes the common core group, comprising the Broadband Controller
	Cards (BCCs), the Alarm/Status Monitor (ASM) card, associated backcards,
	and the StrataBus backplane.
Chapter 4	Network Interface (Trunk) Cards
	Describes the BPX switch network interface (trunk) cards, including the
	Broadband Network Interface (BNI) and associated backcards. The BXM
	card trunk operation is briefly described in this chapter with additional
	information provided in Chapter 6.
Chapter 5	Service Interface (Line) Cards
	This chapter contains a description of the BPX service interface (line) cards,
	including the ATM Service Interface (ASI) and associated backcards. The
	BXM card service (port UNI) operation is briefly described in this chapter
	with additional information provided in Chapter 6.
Chapter 6	BXM T3/E3, 155, and 622
	Describes the BXM card group which includes the BXM-T3/E3, BXM-155,
	and BXM-622 card sets. Describes the operation of these cards in either
	trunk or service (port UNI) mode.
Chapter 7	ATM Connections
	Describes how ATM connection services are established by adding ATM
	connections between ATM service interface ports in the network using ATM
	standard UNI 3.1 and Traffic Management 4.0. It describes BXM and ASI
	card operation and summarizes ATM connection parameter configuration.
Chapter 8	ATM and Frame Relay SVCs, and SPVCs
	Provides a summary of switched virtual circuits and soft permanent virtual
	circuits with respect to the BPX switch and co-located Extended Services
	Processor. For additional information, refer to the Cisco WAN Service Node
	Extended Processor Installation and Operation Release 2.2 document.

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