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Appendix A
LAPB Data Link Control protocol

Contents

This section contains information on the following topics:

"Introduction" (page 1129)

"Operation" (page 1129)

"Frame structure" (page 1130)

"LAPB balanced class of procedure" (page 1131)

"Commands and responses" (page 1131)

"Description of procedure" (page 1132)

Introduction

This chapter describes the LAPB Data Link Control protocol used with the
QPC513 ESDI card. The protocol is a subset of the HDLC procedures
which are described in International Organization for Standardization
procedures ISO 3309-1979 (E), ISO 4335-1979 (E) and appendices 1 and
2, and ISO 6256-1981 (E). Refer to these procedures for complete LAPB
details. Applications which use an ESDI port in synchronous mode must
conform to the following requirements.

Operation

Circuit Switch Equipment transfers data to the QPC513 in blocks consisting
of 1 to 128 eight-bit octets. Each block is processed in accordance with the
LAPB subset of the HDLC protocol and transmitted serially to the line at a
rate determined by the downloaded parameters.

The QPC513 card receives data serially from the line, packaged in LAPB
information frames. After determining that a block is error free, the data is
supplied to the Circuit Switch Equipment as a block.

Nortel Communication Server 1000

Circuit Card Reference

NN43001-311

01.04

Standard

Release 5.0

23 May 2008

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