Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 6624 Switch User Manual


 
Nantucket ASIC
OmniSwitch Troubleshooting Guide September 2005 page -17
Nantucket ASIC
The Nantucket ASICs have the following:
Support for 8 and 16 Coronados only.
No dynamic queue numbering for each NI slot.
Fixed eight Nantuckets per Fabric board.
Maximum of one redundant Fabric board.
The Nantucket software is arranged as:
Nantucket operational software resides on the CMM.
Nantucket operational software runs on the UltraSPARC IIe on the CMM.
All accesses to Nantucket registers is through the PCI bridge and over the Bbus bridges.
Minimum user interface software is provided for configuring and statusing the Nantucket ASICs.
Minimum SNMP software is provided for configuring and statusing the Nantucket ASICs.
Additional Nantucket Specifications
Nantucket Fabric consists of eight Nantucket ASICs for the primary Fabric in OS-7800 and four
Nantucket ASICs for the primary Fabric in OS-7700.
Nantucket Fabric consists of eight/four Nantucket ASICs for the redundant Fabric, when running with
a redundant CMM.
Nantucket uses six SRAM memories, each SRAM is 32 bits wide by 11264 words deep.
Nantucket has a point to point interface to all Coronados running at 500MHz.
No packet processing on Nantucket
Provides very little buffering
Supports 512 per-port queues
Supports 1 per-Coronado broadcast queue and 1 intercommunication queue.
Supports flow control/pay generation for Coronado bandwidth control
Supports VLAN spanning tree masks
Nantucket supports the following messages:
Ingress packets w/header
Egress packets w/header
Flow control messages
Bandwidth management control messages “pay.”