AAC / CellSMART Octal CES/CBR Protocol Module

General
Interface types supported

Serial constant bit rate.

Mates with these PLMs

Octal DS1

OctalDSX-1

Octal E1

Quad-Port V.35/EIA-530

DS3

E3

HSSI

Processing capacity

44.736 Mbps

Services supported

Structured or unstructured circuit emulation over AAL1

DS1/E1 to DS0 bundle mapping

dynamic bandwidth allocation based on CAS signalling or Idle Code Detection

Connections
Number of supported VCs

32 (unicast or multicast) per port. 256 per slot

Traffic and Congestion Management
Cell emission scheduling

Done on a per connection basis to minimize CDV

General

No congestion management. Congestion may occur only due to misallocating bandwidth. This results in cell discard and immediate alarm.

Input queuing

Non-blocking input queue

Output queuing / reassembly

One reassembly output queue with user-controllable depth to 1 microsecond

Depth influences CDVT (high depth = higher CDVT)

Six cells reassembly latency. Latency is a one-time delay introduced at the activation of the connection.

Statistics Collection
Statistics collected per port

Number of valid cells transmitted and received

Number of LOS/AIS/LOF cells transmitted and received

Number of dummy cells inserted

Number of cells with errored AAL1 headers

Number of OAM cells tossed due to congestion (per slot)

Number of seconds during which the input and output buffers overflowed (input counted per slot only)

Number of seconds during which the output buffer underflowed

Number of seconds during which received cells were tossed due to congestion

Number of seconds during which the port performed sequence number reframes

Standards Compliance
Meets applicable requirements of the following standard/generic requirements

ATM Forum AF-SAA-0032 000, "Circuit Emulation Service Interoperability Specification, " June 1995

ATM Forum AF-VTOA-0078.000, "Circuit Emulation Service Interoperability Specification Version 2.0", January 1997

Bellcore GR-1113-CORE, "Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) Protocols Generic Requirements, " July 1994

Bellcore GR-2842-CORE, "ATM Service Access Multiplexer (SAM) Generic Requirements, " November 1994

Bellcore TA-NWT-001110, "Broadband ISDN Switching System Generic Requirements, " August 1992

ITU-T Recommendation 1.311, "Broadband ISDN General Aspects"

ITU-T Recommendation 1.150, "Asynchronous Transfer Mode Functional Characteristic"

ITU-T Recommendation 1.361, "Braodband ISDN ATM Layer Specification."

ITU-T Recommendation 1.363.1, "Broadband ISDN Adaptation Layer Specification Types 1 and 2, " 1996

ITU-T Recommendation 1.371, "Traffic Control and Congestion Control in B-ISDN."

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