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Attach the two redundant AC (Alternating Current) power modules to redundant AC power sources, as required by industry standards.

Networking overview

The standard networking configuration for the AS 5300 system is a Dual-VLAN configuration. In this type of networking configuration, the server is connected to two different VLANs (or networks):

•Service network

•Maintenance network

The server has a machine logical address for each network and frames entering and leaving the server are tagged with the appropriate network identifier. The hosting network equipment must support VLANs and not perform VLAN tag processing on behalf of the server.

In a typical Dual-VLAN configuration, the majority of network traffic traverses the Service network. This includes signaling, Operations, Administration, Maintenance, Provisioning (OAMP), and software heartbeating. The Maintenance network is used for a few specific functions, including the extraction of Operations Support Systems (OSS) feeds by northbound Network Management System (NMS).

For more information about a typical Dual-VLAN networking configuration, see Figure 3 "Typical Dual-VLAN configuration" (page 28) .

Application Server 5300

Nortel AS 5300 Installation

NN42040-300 01.04

4 November 2008

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