Re: (ASCEND) Is the TNT OC3 ATM Card a true OC3 card?

[Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>]

The TNT has 3 separate buses. One for packet data, one for TDM and one for
control. There ought to be an architecture guide on the web somewhere...


At 04:07 PM 2/28/99 -0600, Dan Pinkard wrote:
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>How seperate are the buses on a TNT? Does traffic from an ethernet
>interface occupy a timeslot alongside any DS0 of traffic headed to a
>resource card?
>
>On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matt Holdrege wrote:
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>> At 08:47 PM 2/8/99 +0100, Eden Akhavi wrote:
>> >Does the TNT OC3 support full OC3 or is it just a DS3 with OC3 Interface?
>> 
>> It's a full OC3. But think about how much data you are transporting from
>> the other interfaces. Realistically, would they generate much more than
>> 45Mbps sustained?
>>  
>> It would also depend on how much traffic is on the internal bus. Thanks to
>> the performance improvements we've made, we've reduced a lot of the
>> extraneous traffic from the data bus. In optimal situations, you could
>> generate a lot of traffic from the media cards to an OC-3 egress. But in
>> most ISP situations, you have bursty traffic.
>> 
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