Cisco Systems 7300-6T3 Network Card User Manual


 
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Clear Channel 6-Port T3 (DS3) Line Card Installation and Configuration
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Features
The 6T3 line card provides the following features:
Single-wide line card for the Cisco 7304 router
Full-duplex synchronous serial DS3 interface
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) data
Integrated data service unit (DSU) functionality
Support for 16- and 32-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs)
Support for Frame Relay, HDLC, and PPP serial encapsulations
Support for DS3 MIB (RFC 1407)
Support for remote and local loopbacks
Six independent T3 ports
Subrate DS3 support for Cisco, Kentrox, Larscom, and Digital Link formats along with the
associated scrambling. In some modes, the scrambling is optional.
Clear-channel DS3 (framed but unchannelized)
M23 and C-bit-parity DS3 frame formats
Extraction of BOCs on the C-bit far-end alarm and control (FEAC) code
Detects and counts remote alarm indication (RAI), parity errors, far-end block error (FEBE), line
code violation (LCV), loss of light (LOL), out of frame (OOF), framing errors, loss of frame (LOF),
loss of signal (LOS)
One-second performance monitoring counters
Generates AIS and FEAC
Generates F-, X-, P-, and M-bit errors; LCVs; all zeros; RAI; and FEBE for testing
Line, payload, and diagnostic loopbacks
One bicolor LED per T3 port
Drives up to 900 feet of 75-ohm coaxial cable RG-59U or equivalent, 450 feet to DSX-3
demarcation point (DSX)
75-ohm SMB-type coaxial connections over ATT 734/728, 75-ohm coaxial cable
B3ZS line coding
Maintenance data link (MDL) messages
Bit error rate testing