Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Edge Concentrator MGX 8220 Cisco
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CHAPTER Introduction 1-1 1 Introduction This manual describes the features and functions of Release 3.0 of the Cisco MGX™ 8220 edge concentrator . (See Figure 1-1.
MGX 8220 System Overview Cisco MGX 8220 Reference 1-2 MGX 8220 System Overview The MGX 8220 shelf is designed on the philosophy that large scale deplo yment of narrowband and medium-band services is best handled using an A TM infrastructure. In fact, support of these services can, by themselves, justify an A TM infrastructure.
Introduction 1-3 MGX 8220 Shelf Aggregation of T raffic into A TM Networks Each MGX 8220 shelf connects to the BPX switch across a T3 or E3 A TM STI (Cisco T runk Interface) to a BNI module on the BPX switch.
MGX 8220 System Overview Cisco MGX 8220 Reference 1-4 MGX 8220 Cards MGX 8220 cards are always installed as a pair consisting of a front card (function module) and a matching back card (line module) in the same slot, except for the SRM-T1E1 card which only has a front card.
Introduction 1-5 MGX 8220 Management • Service Resource Module (SRM-T1E1) This card provides loopback and bit error rate testing (BER T) functions and 1:N redundanc y for the service modules. The ASC and the BNM modules must be present in an MGX 8220 shelf and are referred to as the core modules.
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