Cisco Systems 8600 Series manual BPX Switch Common Core Group

C H A P T E R 3

BPX Switch Common Core

This chapter contains a description of the common core group, comprising the Broadband Controller Cards (BCCs), the Alarm/Status Monitor (ASM) card, associated backcards, and the StrataBus backplane.

This chapter contains the following:

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BPX Switch Common Core Group

Broadband Controller Card (BCC-32,BCC-3,BCC-4)

Alarm/Status Monitor Card

BPX Switch StrataBus 9.6 and 19.2 Gbps Backplanes

BPX Switch Common Core Group

The BPX switch Common Core group includes the Broadband Controller Card (BCC-3 and associated BCC-3-bc backcard, or BCC-32 and associated BCC-b backcard), or BCC-4 and associated BCC-3-c backcard, the Alarm/Status Monitor (ASM), a Line Module for the ASM card (LM-ASM), and the StrataBus backplane (see Figure 3-1). The BCC-3 and BCC-32 are functionally equivalent and support 9.6 Gbps operation, but use different backcards. The BCC-4 supports the 19.2 Gbps operation of the BXM cards and provides 32M or 64M.

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ATM cell switching.

Internal node communication.

Remote node communication.

Node synchronization.

Network management communications (Ethernet), local management (RS-232).

Alarm and status monitoring functions.

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