Cisco IGX 8400 Series Installation And Configuration Manual

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Card Installation and Node Startup

This chapter covers the following topics:

• How to install the cards in an IGX node that has arrived without cards already installed. (The

rack-mount models of the IGX 8420 and IGX 8430 nodes arrive with cards not installed.)

• Information unique to each card type that applies to bringing up the node and the network.

• Connections to LAN, modem, and printer ports.

• Checklist of readiness before you attempt to bring up the node.

• The commands and steps for bringing up the node and each type of card set in the node.

• Power-up diagnostics.

• IGX conﬁguration summary and IGX management.

Preparing the Cards

The locations of the system cards in the IGX node depend on the hardware conﬁguration. Primary and redundant NPMs must reside in front slot 1 and 2. The SCM must reside in back slot 1. Except for these reserved slots, cards can reside in any slot on the appropriate side of the node (but Cisco recommends that the optional ARM/ARI card set reside in the slot on the far right).

Before you install cards in a rack-mounted IGX 8420 or IGX 8430 node, to indicate whether the system is an IGX 8420 or an IGX 8430 node, you must either remove or leave a jumper switch on the SCM. (FortheIGX 8410 node and standalone IGX 8420/8430 systems, Cisco sets the switch at the factory.) The switch is W6. It sits above component U7P (near the top of connector P2). To indicate an IGX 8430 node, remove the jumper. To indicate an IGX 8420, leave the jumper. Make a record of this step so you do not have to remove the SCM later to check it. See Figure 3-1.

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Preparing the Cards

Figure 3-1 W6 Jumper

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Manycard sets support Y-cableredundancy.This feature requires an extra set of cards and a Y-cable. A set of commands exists to specify, delete, and display Y-cable redundancy. For instructions on setting up Y-cable redundancy, refer to the setup section for the speciﬁc card set.

Note FRM and NTM front cards exist in one and two-piece versions. The two-piece card uses an

ACM1. Refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference for details.

A Cisco IGX node can support a conﬁguration of up to 32 trunks.

Caution Connector pins must align with receptacles. Before card insertion, make sure that pins are

straight and that card connectors and the backplane align. Insert the card gently. It might be necessary to push the edge of the card slightly to one side for alignment (this might require removing cards).

The locations for the NPMs and SCMs in a Cisco IGX:

• Non-Redundant:

— NPM in front slot number 1 — SCM in back slot number 1 behind NPM front slot number 1

• Redundant:

— NPMs in front slot numbers 1 and 2 — SCM in back slot number 1 behind NPM front slot number 1

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Figure 3-2 IGX 8410 Cards, Front View

Preparing the Cards

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General purpose card slots

Note Opening the door requires a 5/32-inch Allen wrench. Cisco provides this in a combination

tool (Part No. 218705).

Caution When handling the cards, wear a wrist strap to prevent damage to the cards from electrostatic

discharge. The IGX 8410 cabinet has an attached wrist strap both at the front and back.

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Preparing the Cards

Figure 3-3 IGX 8410 Cards, Back View

ARI (recommended location)

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General purpose card slots

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Figure 3-4 IGX 8420 Card Shelf, Front View

Preparing the Cards

General purpose card slots

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Figure 3-5 IGX 8430 Back View

Exhaust plenum

Cable manager

Fan tray 2

Fan power/ short cable

Connector (fan 2)

System power

Connector (fan 1)

Fan power / long Y cable

Cable manager

Optional AC

power tray

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Inserting the Cards

To insert a Cisco IGX module:

Step 1 Attach an ESD-preventive wrist strap to handle the cards.

Note The IGX 8410 cabinet has an attached wrist strap both at the front and back.

Step 2 Using the 5/32-inch Allen wrench, open the Cisco IGX 8400 Series switch door. Step 3 Be sure that you are inserting the module into the correct slot. Step 4 Grasp the card front panel with one hand and place your other hand under the card to

balance the weight of the card as you push it vertically into the slot. (See Figure 3-6.)

Figure 3-6 Inserting Modules

Inserting the Cards

SYSTEM STATUS

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Step 5

Push down on the ejector levers to properly seat the card.

Caution Always use the ejector levers when disengaging or seating the modules. Failure to do so can cause

erroneous system error messages, and indicate card failure. However, do not use the ejector levers to lift or support the weight of the cards.

Step 6 Using the number 1 Phillips screwdriver, tighten the panel fasteners at the top and bottom

of the card front panel.

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Making Signal Connections

The remaining sections of this chapter describe how to set up physical lines, ports, trunks, and signal connections. The Cisco WAN Switching Command Reference and Cisco WAN Switching SuperUser Command Reference provide important details on the commands appearing in this chapter.

The following trunk rates are supported:

• OC3 (STM1)

• T3/E3

• T1/E1

• Subrate (less than T1 or E1 rates)

• Y1

The following service module (or circuit line) connections are supported:

• ATM

— OC3 (STM1) — T3/E3 — T1/E1

• Channelized Voice/Data

— T1/E1/J1

• Frame Relay

— T1/E1 — V.35 — X.21 — HSSI

• Data

— EIA/TIA-449 — V.35 — EIA/TIA-232D — EIA/TIA-232C

• Alarm Relay

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Connecting Trunks

The sections that follow contain basic information on how to set up the two types of trunks on the IGX node. The two trunk types are FastPacket and ATM.The supported line types are OC3/STM1, T3, E3, T1, Y1, and E1. The card sets described in this section are the network trunk module (NTM). The universal switching module (UXM-E) is a dual-purpose, ATM cell-based card and has its own section that includes information for trunk-mode conﬁguration and port-mode conﬁguration.

Setting Up a UXM-E

To set up a UXM-E attach cables and enter commands at the command-line interface (CLI). For detailed information regarding the UXM-E, refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference. The CiscoIGX 8400 Series Reference contains crucial information on,for example, supported endpoints, connection types, allocation of cellbus bandwidth, and the logical trunk feature called Inverse Multiplexing Over ATM (IMA).

You can specify the mode of the UXM-E through Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI. The UXM-E card set goes into the mode determined when you activate the ﬁrst port. If you activatea logical port to be a trunk by using the uptrk command, for example, the UXM-E goes into trunk mode. If you use upln to activate a line as a UNI port to CPE or an NNI to another network, the UXM-E goes into port mode.

Connecting Trunks

For a summary of commands you use to bring up an IGX node, refer to the section “IGX Conﬁguration Summary” on page 49 at the end of this chapter.

Bringing Up a UXM-E Trunk

If you are not familiar with precautions for card insertion, see the section “Preparing the Cards” on page 1.

To attach the cables to a back card:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the top or bottom of the cabinet (however

appropriate) and along the back of the IGX enclosure. (See Figure 3-7.)

Step 2 If the unit has the optional cable manager, you can use it to help route the cables. (See

Figure 3-7.)

Step 3 Connect the cables to the connectors on the back card. (See Figure 3-7.)

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Figure 3-7 Cable Management

Cable manager

Frame bonding connection

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The following is the command sequence for bringing up the trunk. You must bring up the trunk before you add connections. For detailed command descriptions, see the command references.

Step 1 To verify the correct card locations in both the local and remote nodes, enter:

dspcds

Step 2 Conﬁgure the cellbus bandwidth allocation for the card if you do not plan to rely on

automatic increases from switch software. Use the superuser command cnfbusbw on the CLI to see the current allocation and increase the allocation.

Note Cisco recommends that you not allow oversubscription. Refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series

Reference for the description of cellbus bandwidth allocation and the Cisco WAN Switching SuperUser Command Reference for a description of cnfbusbw. Any user can view the current

cellbus bandwidth allocation by using the dspbusbw command.

Step 3 Activate the trunk by using uptrk. Execute this command on the nodes at both ends of

the trunk. On the CLI, use the vt command to reach the far-end node to execute commands. The only trunk cards you can connect to a UXM-E trunk are another UXM-E trunk card or a BXM in trunk mode. The syntax of the single-port trunk speciﬁcation is slot.port.

To specify an IMA trunk through the CLI, enter uptrk slot.ﬁrst_line–last_line. The line numbers must be contiguous.

Step 4 At each end, conﬁgure trunk parameters as required by using cnftrk. Each type of trunk

comes up with a default conﬁguration, but you can alter the conﬁguration with cnftrk. Refer to the cnftrk description in the Cisco WANSwitching Command Reference for the parameters that apply to each interface.

Step 5 Use addtrk to add the trunk. Adding the trunk makes it a usable resource, so you can

subsequently add connections through Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI (addcon). Add the trunk at only one node. If, after you add the trunk, you later determine that changes to the trunk parameters are necessary, you can change certain parameters with cnftrk without taking the trunk out of service.

Step 6 Optionally, you can conﬁgure a UXM-E trunk as a clock source. Enter:

cnfclksrc

Step 7 Conﬁgure the cellbus bandwidth allocation with cnfbusbw if you plan to activate many

ports or carry a large number of connections on the UXM-E trunk. Use dspbusbw or cnfbusbw to check cellbus usage and changes in bandwidth requirements for the

UXM-E. For information on cellbus bandwidth needs, see the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference.

Step 8 To conﬁgure physical and logical trunk statistics, use cnfphyslnstats and cnftrkstats,

respectively. See the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference regarding UXM-E trunk statistics.

Inverse Multiplexing over ATM on Trunks

An IMA lets you group physical T1 or E1 lines to form a logical trunk. A logical trunk consisting of more than one T1 or E1 line supports connections with data rates that are much higher than the T1 or E1 rate. System software lets you specify IMA so that one or more physical lines within the logical trunk can serve as backup if a line fails. IMA characteristics are as follows:

• All physical ports of an IMA trunk use the same line conﬁguration.

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• The node maintains a set of retained links for the IMA trunk to keep it active. The IMA trunk

does not fail unless the number of active trunks is less than the user-speciﬁed number of retained links.

• The IMA trunk can provide a clock source or clock path (see cnftrk command). The ﬁrst (the

lowest numbered) available physical line is used. If this line fails, the next available line within the IMA provides the clock source or clock path.

• Full support for individual physical line alarms and statistics.

To specify the range of ports for an IMA trunk, you can use either Cisco WAN Manager or the command-line interface (CLI). To deﬁne an IMA trunk on the CLI, use the uptrk command:

uptrk slot.start_port-end_port For example, you could enter uptrk 8.1–4. Subsequently, you would refer to this logical trunk by

using only the slot number and ﬁrst port number—8.1 in this example—when you use other commands, such as addtrk, deltrk, cnftrk, and so on. Commands for viewing IMA information also include dspportstats, dspphyslns, dsptrkcnf, dspfdr, dspnode, and dspphyslnstathist.

Adding an IMA Feeder Trunk

To add the UXM-E feeder trunk, you can use either Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI. To deﬁne an IMA trunk on the CLI:

Step 1 Activate the trunk between the interface shelf and router by specifying the primary link

and the IMA group members of a UXM-E feeder trunk on an IGX routing node or an IGX feeder node. Enter:

uptrk slot.group-member(s)

Step 2 Use the cnftrk command to conﬁgure the activated UXM-E feeder trunk:

cnftrk slot.primary link

Step 3 Use the addshelf command to add the feeder trunk to an IGX routing node:

addshelf slot.primary link shelf type

Note The routing node can be one of the following: IGX, BPX, or BPX-BXM/IMATM.

Adding Links to an IMA Feeder Group

To add links to an IMA group, you can use either Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI. To add a link to an IMA on the CLI:

Step 1 Find the nodes conﬁgured as trunks connected to the IMA feeder. Enter:

dsptrks

Step 2 Increase the IMA group members on both trunk and feeder nodes by manually entering

the number of group members. Enter:

cnftrk slot.primary link

Step 3 Increase the receive rate using the DS0 calculation on both trunk and feeder nodes. Step 4 Increase the number of retained links on both trunk and feeder nodes.

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Removing Links from an IMA Feeder Group

To remove links from an IMA group, you can use either Cisco WANManager or the CLI. Toremove a link from an IMA group on the CLI:

Step 1 Find the nodes conﬁgured as trunks connected to the IMA feeder by using the dsptrks

command.

Step 2 Reduce the number of retained links on the IMA feeder node. Step 3 Reduce the receive rate using the DS0 calculation on the IMA feeder node. Step 4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 on the IMA trunk. Step 5 Reduce the number of IMA group members on both trunk and feeder nodes by manually

entering the number of group members. Enter:

cnftrk slot.primary link

Note The primary link cannot be removed from an IMA group.

UXM-E Inverse Multiplexing ATM IMA Lines

This feature allows the extension of the IMA protocol to UXM-E line interfaces, which substantially reduces equipment and interface costs for customers requiring IMA line interfaces and trunks and high bandwidth demand for ATM. It reduces costs by bundling multiple physical T1/E1 lines into a logical line enlarging trafﬁc bandwidth. This makes it unnecessary to upgrade access lines to higher speed services such as T3/E3.

Setting Up a UXM-E

Note Both ends of the UXM-E IMA lines require you to install UXM-E Firmware Model B

(Release 9.2 and later SWSW). If the UXM IMA line is connected to another device, that device must support ATM Forum Compliant IMA protocol, Version 1.0. To verify the UXM ﬁrmware version, use the dspcd command.

To specify the range of ports for an IMA line, you can use either Cisco WAN Manager or the command-line interface (CLI). To deﬁne an IMA line on the CLI, use the upln command:

upln slot.group-member For example, you could enter upln 8.1–4. Subsequently, you would refer to this physical line by

using only the slot number and ﬁrst group member—8.1 in this example—when you use commands, such as upln, dnln, cnﬂn, and so on. Following the activation of an IMA line group, the logical port will be created with the primary line port as the port number.

Commands for viewing IMA line information also include dsplncnf, dsplns, dspports, dspport, dspphyslnstathist and dspphyslnstatcnf.

Note The UXM-E IMA ports on an IGX, will interoperate with an IMA compliant router or a

device that supports the ATM Forum Compliant IMA Protocol, Version 1.0.

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Connecting an NTM T1 or Y1 Trunk

The T1 trunk connections use the NTM front card and the BC-T1 back card. Japanese Y1 connections use the NTM front card and the BC-Y1 back card. The procedure for making Y1 connections is the same as for T1 connections described below.

Make the T1 connections as follows:

Step 1 Bring each T1 cable through the opening at the bottom of the cabinet (if applicable) and

up the back of the unit.

Step 2 Use the cable management feature to help route the cables. Step 3 Connect the trunks to the connectors on the BC-T1s that are part of NTM/BC-T1 card

sets. The T1 lines are attached to DB-15, subminiature, 15-pin connectors on the BC-T1 cards.

The back slot line numbers correspond to the back slot number in which the BC-T1 card resides. Record the back slot number of each line. These numbers are necessary for conﬁguring the system after you complete hardware installation.

Note If the number of trunks is odd, connect as many as possible in pairs, and connect the

remaining lines in ascending order.

Connecting an NTM E1 or Subrate Trunk

The E1 trunk connections use the NTM front card and the BC-E1 back card. Subrate E1 connections use the NTM front card and the BC-SR back card. The E1 trunk interface card BC-E1 contains the E1 trunk connector (G.703 Input/Output) that is located at the top of the back card. The BC-E1 faceplate has four 75-ohm BNCs.

Note The BC-E1 faceplate provides two connector arrangements for attaching E1 lines. Use either

the two BNC (RX and TX) connectors or the 15-pin DB connector.

Make the E1 connections as follows:

Step 1 Bringeach E1 BNC patch cable (or 15-pin cable) through the opening at the top or bottom

of the cabinet (whichever applies) and along the back of the unit.

Note Some versions of the BC-E1 use a metal BNC connector instead of a plastic BNC. For

terminating 75- or 120-ohm balanced E1 lines at the metal BNC connectors, remove the BNC mounting nuts. This removes the ground that normally appears on one side of the connector shell.

Step 2 Use the cable management feature to help route the cables. Step 3 Connect the cables to connectors on the BC-E1s that are part of an NTM/BC-E1 card sets.

Record the slot numbers of the NTM/BC-E1 card set. You need these numbers when you conﬁgure the system.

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Setting Up a UXM-E

This section consists of descriptions of how to set up a port-mode UXM-E and a trunk-mode UXM-E. The descriptions consist of the steps for attaching cables and entering commands at the command line interface (CLI). For detailed information regarding the UXM-E, refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference. The Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference contains crucial information on, for example, supported endpoints, connection types, allocation of cellbus bandwidth, and the logical trunk feature called Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA).

You can specify the mode of the UXM-E through Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI. The entire UXM-E card set goes into the mode determined by the ﬁrst port you activate. If you activate a logical port to be a trunk by using the uptrk command, for example, the UXM-E goes into trunk mode. If you use upln to activatea line as a UNI port to CPE or an NNI to another network, the UXM-E goes into port mode.

For a summary of commands you use to bring up an IGX node, refer to the section “IGX Conﬁguration Summary” on page 49.

Bringing Up a UXM-E in UNI or NNI Port Mode

If you are not familiar with card insertion, see the section “Preparing the Cards” page 1.

Setting Up a UXM-E

To attach the cables:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the top or bottom of the cabinet (however

appropriate) and along the back of the IGX enclosure.

Step 2 If the unit has the optional cable manager, you can use it to help route the cables. Step 3 Connect the cables to the connectors on the back card.

To activate a port-mode UXM-E:

Step 1 Verify the correct card locations in both the local and remote nodes (dspcds). Step 2 Activateeach line by using upln. Execute this command on the nodes at both ends of the

line. Use the vt command to reach the far-end node to execute commands. When you activate the ﬁrst line through upln, the UXM-E goes into port mode.

Step 3 At the near and far-end nodes, use cnﬂn to conﬁgure line parameters as required. Each

line comes up with a default conﬁguration, but you can change the conﬁguration with cnﬂn.

Step 4 Optionally, you can specify Y-cable redundancy with the addyred command. Step 5 Use upport at the near and far-end nodes to activate the logical port. Use vt to reach the

far-end node. Upping the port makes it a usable resource, so you can subsequently add connections through Cisco WAN Manager or the CLI (addcon).

Step 6 Use cnfport at the near and far-end nodes to conﬁgure each logical port. Applicable

parameters are the choice of UNI or NNI cell header,an enable for LMI or ILMI protocol or no protocol, and the enable for the %util parameter.

Step 7 If you do not want the defaults for the queue depths and high and low discard eligibility

thresholds, use cnfportq to conﬁgure parameters for the CBR, VBR, and ABR queues.

Step 8 Optionally,you can use cnfabrparm to conﬁgure additional parameters for ABR trafﬁc.

The cnfabrparm parameters are CI control and egress explicit rate stamping.

Step 9 Optionally, you can conﬁgure a UXM-E port as a clock source. Use cnfclksrc.

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Step 10 Conﬁgure the cellbus bandwidth allocation with cnfbusbw if you plan to activatea large

number of ports on the UXM-E. Use dspbusbw or cnfbusbw to check cellbus usage and changes in bandwidth requirements for the UXM-E. For an explanation of cellbus bandwidth allocation, see the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference.

Note Cisco recommends that you not allow oversubscription. Refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series

Reference for the description of cellbus bandwidth allocation and the Cisco WAN Switching SuperUser Command Reference for a description of cnfbusbw. Any user can view the current

cellbus bandwidth allocation by using the dspbusbw command.

Step 11 To check the status of the lines, use dsplns. Step 12 To conﬁgure the duration, sample count and size, and peak values for historical port

statistics, use cnfportstats. Use dspportstats to display the summary statistics for cell count, CLP cell count, OAM cell count, RM cell count, OAM cell count, unknown VPI/VCI cell count, and optional LMI/ILMI status. Other applicable commands are: dsplnerrs, dspportstatcnf and dspportstathist.

Installing Voice Cards

This section describes how to install the voice cards. See the section titled “IGX Conﬁguration Summary on page 49” for a summary of the commands that apply to circuit lines and voice connections. The two voice card sets are the channelized voice module (CVM) and the universal voice module (UVM). These cards can also carry channelized data. The serial data card sets are the HDM and LDM. This section also describes the considerations for using the TDM Transportfeature on the CVM.

Connecting a CVM to a T1 or J1 Line

Voice or data connections on a T1 line use the CVM front card and the BC-T1 back card. Japanese J1 connections use the CVM front card and the BC-J1 back card. The procedure for making J1 connections is the same as for T1 connections. Make the T1 connections as follows:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the bottom of the cabinet (if applicable) and up

the back of the unit.

Step 2 Use the cable management feature to help route the cables. Step 3 Connect the trunks to the connectors on the BC-T1s that mate with the CVM (not NTM).

The T1 lines are attached to DB-15, sub-miniature, 15-pin connectors on the BC-T1 cards.

Note If the number of lines is odd, connect as many as possible in pairs, and connect the remaining

lines in ascending order.

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Connecting a CVM to an E1 Line or a Subrate Trunk

Channelized voice or data connections on an E1 line use the CVM front card and the BC-E1 back card. Subrate E1 connections use the CVM front card and the BC-SR back card. The E1 trunk interface card BC-E1 contains the E1 connector (G.703 Input/Output) that resides at the top of the back card. The BC-E1 faceplate has four, 75-ohm BNCs.

Note The BC-E1 faceplate provides two connector arrangements for attaching E1 lines. Use either

the two BNC (RX and TX) connectors or the 15-pin DB connector.

Make the E1 connections as follows:

Step 1 Bring each E1 BNC patch cable (or 15-pin cable) through the opening at the bottom of

the cabinet (if applicable) and up the back of the unit.

Note Some versions of the BC-E1 use a metal BNC connector instead of a plastic BNC. For

terminating 75- or 120-ohm balanced E1 lines to the metal BNC connectors on these back cards, remove and discard the BNC mounting nuts. With the mounting nuts removed, the ground that normally appears on one side of the connector shell is also removed. This step is not required for DB-15 connectors or for back cards that use the plastic BNC connectors.

Installing Voice Cards

Step 2 Attach the cabling to connectors on the BC-E1s that mate with the CVM (not an NTM). Step 3 Use the cable management feature to help route the cables.

The back slot line numbers correspond to the back slot number in which the BC-E1 card resides. Record the back slot number of each line. These number are necessary for conﬁguring the system after installation is complete.

The next section describes a specialized version of data transmission service called TDM Transport. It applies to older, non-Cisco WANs.

TDM Transport on the CVM

This section describes how to plan for use of the Time Division Multiplexing Transport (TDM Transport) feature. Note that TDM Transport requires Rev. C ﬁrmware on all connected CVMs or CDPs that use this feature. Refer to the TDM Transport description in the Cisco IGX

Referencefor details on Rev. C ﬁrmware features and limitations. Refer to the Cisco WANSwitching Command Reference for a description of the command parameters in related commands.

Before adding a bundled connection under TDM Transport, consider the following:

• If a connection uses a T1 trunk, use cnftrk to conﬁgure the line coding for B8ZS instead of ZCS.

• Add the least number of bundled connections to create the data channels.

• The longest delay for a connection determines the end-to-end delay for the entire transparent

circuit through the network.

• The Maximum Network Delay is the sum of maximum queuing delays for the trunk cards over

which an individual connection is routed. The Maximum Network Delay for a high-speed data connection is 45 ms. Specify this limit using the cnfsysparm command.

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• The total delay for a connection is deﬁned as the sum of the propagation and trunk queuing

delays. The total delay for a connection cannot be more than 25 ms different from the total delay for any other connection on the same card. The user is responsible for conﬁguring the connections so that no difference between total delays exceeds 25 ms. If the 25 ms is exceeded, an error message is generated in the form CC0700d6, where CC is the slot number.

• In System Software 8.2, add the connection with addcon using 7/8 coding even though the

system internally uses 8/8 coding. This causes the system to reserve the additional bandwidth required for the TDM Transport feature.

Connecting a UVM to T1 Lines

Voice or data connections on a T1 line use the UVM front card and the BC-UVI-2T1EC back card. The procedure for connecting the T1 lines is as follows:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the bottom of the cabinet (if applicable) and up

the back of the unit. Install optional Y-cables as needed. You can use the cable management feature to help route the cables.

Step 2 If the intended compression for voice channels is LDCELP and the number of channels

on a T1 line exceeds 16, install cabling for pass-through. Note that the UVM does not pass-through t-type or td-type connections. For the steps that follow, refer to Figure 3-8 for an illustration of the possible UVM cabling arrangements. Note that, in Example B, the number of channels has not exceeded the UVM capacity, so pass-through is unnecessary.

• On port 1 of the primary UVM, connect the cable to the CPE.

• On port 2 of the primary UVM, connect the cable to port 2.

• Connect the cable from port 2 of the primary card to either port 1 or port 2 of the

secondary UVM. Typically, if the secondary UVM is supporting the passed-through channels from only one primary UVM, you would connect the cable from port 2 of the primary card to port 1 of the secondary card. However, because the secondary UVM can receive 16 passed-through channels with LDCELP compression, you can pass 8 channels each from other UVMs.

• If the secondary UVM is supporting an additional 8 channels with LDCELP, connect

the cable between the port 2 of the secondary UVM and the other primary UVM. For a description of the pass-through feature, refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference. Record the back slot number and port number of each line. These numbers are necessary for

conﬁguring the system after you complete hardware installation.

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Figure 3-8 Pass-Through and Standard (External) UVM T1 Cabling

External

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A. External line

B. One pass-through line

External

Passing

(transparent)

External

Passing

(transparent)

Passedthrough

UVM

Passedthrough

UVM 1 UVM 2

Passedthrough

External

Passing (transparent)

C. Two pass-through lines

UVM 1

UVM 2

UVM 3

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Installing Voice Cards

Connecting a UVM to E1 Lines

Voice or data connections on an E1 line use the UVM front card and the BC-UVI-2E1EC back card. The procedure for connecting the E1 lines is as follows:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the bottom of the cabinet (if applicable) and up

the back of the unit. You can use the cable management feature to help route the cables.

Step 2 If you use the 120-ohm, DB-15 connectors, you must remove the nuts on the BNC

connectors for the port even though the BNC has no attached cable.

Step 3 If you use the 75-ohm BNC connectors in a balanced mode, you must remove the nuts

from the BNC connector.

Step 4 Install optional Y-cables as needed. Step 5 If the intended compression for voice channels is LDCELP and the number of channels

on a E1 line exceeds 16, install cabling for pass-through. For the steps that follow, refer to Figure 3-9 for an illustration of the possible UVM cabling arrangements. Note that, in Example B, the number of channels has not exceeded the UVM capacity,so pass-through is unnecessary.

• On port 1 of the primary UVM, connect the cable to the CPE.

• On port 2 of the primary UVM, connect the cable to port 2.

• Connect the cable from port 2 of the primary card to either port 1 or port 2 of the

secondary UVM. Typically, if the secondary UVM is supporting the passed-through

channels from only one primary UVM, you would connect the cable from port 2 of

the primary card to port 1 of the secondary card. However, because the secondary

UVM can receive 16 passed-through channels with LDCELP compression, you can

pass 15 channels each from other UVMs. For a description of the pass-through feature, refer to the Cisco IGX 8400 Series Reference.

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Figure 3-9 Pass-Through and Standard (External) UVM E1 Cabling

Installing Voice Cards

A. One pass-through line

Pass-through

Passing

(transparent)

External

UVM 1

Passedthrough

UVM 2

B. External line

UVM

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The back slot line numbers correspond to the slot number in which the BC-UVI-2E1EC card resides. Record the back slot number and port number of each line. These numbers are necessary for conﬁguring the system after you complete hardware installation.

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Installing Voice Cards

Connecting a UVM to J1 Lines

Voice or data connections on a J1 line use the UVM front card and the BC-UVI-2J1EC back card. The procedure for connecting the J1 lines is as follows:

Step 1 Bring each cable through the opening at the bottom or top of the cabinet (whatever is

applicable) and along the back of the unit. You can use the cable management feature to help route the cables.

Step 2 Attach each cable according to the cabling requirement (pass-through, external, and so

on). If the intended compression for voice channels is LDCELP and the number of channels

on a J1 line exceeds 16, install cabling for pass-through. For the steps that follow,refer to Figure 3-10 for an illustration of the possible UVM cabling arrangements. Note that, in Example B, the number of channels has not exceeded the UVM capacity,so pass-through is unnecessary.