Artesyn ARTM-831X Installation and Use (June 2014) - Manual (Page 31)

Introduction
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 TSI-Expander unit:
– Reference Clock Selector and Alarm signaling (LOS) for four E1/T1 Framer (channel 17
to 48)
1.2.3 ARTM-831X_DS3/OC3
 Expansion PCB
 16 E1/T1 I/O ports via one 68p VHDCI connector
– Patch panel feed only, no line protection
– Supports redundancy Y-connection at the patch panel (Lmax.= 1.8m)
 Up to 24x DS3 or 8x OC3 or 2x OC12 TDM/SDH/Sonet interface
– DS3 via two VHDCI connector for patch panel feed only, no line protection
– Supports DS3 redundancy Y-connection at the patch panel
– OC3/OC12 via SFP
 Healthy signaling and Active/Standby switchover for 2 ARTM's
 Locate and type-detect function for patch panel connection via IPMC
 TSI unit:
– 64k TDM channels interchange management
– TSIP2SerDes conversion for front board communication
– PCIe x1 host interface & local bus for path overhead management
– Sideband signal interface
– HMVIP interface to E1/T1 Framer devices
– SBI interface to SONET/SDH/DS3 Framer devices
– Reference Clock Selector and Alarm signaling (LOS) for two E1/T1 Framer (channel 1 to
16) and for two SONET/SDH/DS3 Framer