DS3 PIC

Software features

Cables and connectors

LEDs

Alarms, errors, and events

DS3 functionality:

C-bit framing

B3ZS line encoding

DS3 diagnostics and loopback control

DS3 alarm and event counting and detection

Per-packet counts and byte counts

Local and remote loopback testing, as well as BERT testing per DS3

DS3 far-end alarm and control (FEAC) channel support

Encapsulations:

High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)

Frame Relay

Circuit cross-connect (CCC)

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

Custom 10-ft (3.05-m) posilock SMB to BNC male cable, separate Rx and Tx (provided)

One tricolor per port:

Off—Not enabled

Green—Online with no alarms or failures

Amber—Online with alarms for remote failures

Red—Active with a local alarm; router has detected a failure

Alarm indication signal (AIS)

Bit error rate test (BERT) functionality on PIC (you can configure one DS3 channel in BERT mode and configure the remaining channels to transmit and receive normal traffic)

Equipment failure (does not affect service)

Far-end block error (FEBE)

Frame error

Idle code, Idle received

Local and remote loopback

Loss of signal (LOS)

Out of frame (OOF)

Parity bit (P-bit) disagreements

Path parity error

Yellow alarm bit (X-bit) disagreements

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Juniper Networks M120 manual DS3 PIC