Patton electronic 6511RC - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
Contents ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Compliance Information ................................................................................................................................ 7
Radio and TV Interference ...............................................................................................................................7
Industry Canada Notice ....................................................................................................................................7
FCC Part 68 (ACTA) Statement .......................................................................................................................7
CE Notice .........................................................................................................................................................8
About this guide ............................................................................................................................................. 9
Audience ................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Structure ................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Precautions ........................................................................................................................................................... 10
Typographical conventions used in this document ................................................................................................ 10
General conventions .......................................................................................................................................10
Mouse conventions .........................................................................................................................................11
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 13
Model 6511RC Matrix Switch overview ................................................................................................................14
Hardware overview ................................................................................................................................................16
ForeFront chassis architectures ........................................................................................................................19
ForeFront Model 6476 6U cPCI chassis ...................................................................................................19
The ForeFront Model 6676 9U chassis .....................................................................................................20
Matrix Switch functionality ............................................................................................................................21
TDM mapping and aggregation ................................................................................................................21
TDM bus architecture ...............................................................................................................................22
STM-1 link architecture ............................................................................................................................22
Matrix Switch TDM capacity ....................................................................................................................23
Matrix Switch Ethernet Switching ..................................................................................................................23
Management ...................................................................................................................................................24
Management Services ................................................................................................................................24
Management Interfaces .............................................................................................................................24
Management Approach .............................................................................................................................24
Matrix Switch Interfaces .................................................................................................................................25
WAN Interfaces ........................................................................................................................................25
Mid-Plane Interfaces .................................................................................................................................25
LAN Interface ...........................................................................................................................................25
RS-232 Config port ..................................................................................................................................26
Power system ..................................................................................................................................................26
Central processing unit ...................................................................................................................................26
System timing .................................................................................................................................................26
Clocking Mode .........................................................................................................................................26
Clocking Source ........................................................................................................................................26