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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.) Figure 1-1 MGX 8220 Edge Concentrator 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 H8238[...]

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    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. The same infrastructu[...]

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    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. Thus, the MGX 8220 shelf Release 3.0 supports aggregation of traf fic up to 40 T1 or E1 access ports or up to 1240 64-Kbps subscribers, ont[...]

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    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. Communication between slots is achiev ed through buses in the shelf backpla[...]

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    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. T he MGX 8220 shelf release 3.0 supports redundant[...]

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    New in Release 3.0 Cisco MGX 8220 Reference 1-6[...]