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    www.rad.com International Headquarters 24 Raoul Wallenberg Street T el Aviv 69719, Israel T el: (972) 3-6458181 Fax: (972) 3-6498250, 6474436 Email: market@rad.com U.S. Headquarters 900 Corporate Drive Mahwah, NJ 07430 T el: (201) 529-1 100 T oll free: 1-800-444-7234 Fax: (201) 529-5777 Email: market@radusa.com Tin y Brid g e-100 M iniature Remote [...]

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    FEATURES • High performance miniature remote bridge for Fast Ethernet extension • Wire-speed WAN throughpu t: 19,700 pps at 10 Mbps • 10/100BaseT interface • Synchronous WAN interfaces: V.24, V.35, V.36, RS-530 , X.21, or 4-wire modem • Two priority queues according to 802.1p or IP ToS bits • Fault propagation of WAN error conditions to[...]

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    FLAG DATA CRC FLAG 1 60–1532 2 1 Figure 1. TinyBridge-100 Frame Structure • TinyBridge-100 WAN interface operates in DTE mode. This means it accepts receive and transmit clocks. The timing diagram is shown in Figure 2 . Rx Data Rx Clock t SETUP t HOLD 5ns 5ns Tx Data Tx Clock t DELAY 9ns Figure 2. Receive and Transmit Clock Timing Diagrams APPL[...]

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    Figure 5. Extending Ethernet over 4-Wires in the Campus Enviroment Figure 6. Broadcasting Data over Satellite Link SPECIFICATIONS ETHERNET • Frame size (max) 1536 bytes • LAN Table 2048 MAC addresses with 5-minute automatic aging • Buffer Up to 120 frames for 64-byte frames • Latency With LAN rate 100 Mbps, WAN rate 10 Mbps:  66 μ s for[...]

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    WAN • Protocol HDLC • Data Rate Up to 10 Mbps synchronous • Throughput With WAN rate 10 Mbps:  19700 pps for 64-byte frames and increment byte data (00, 01, 02, …)  802 pps for 1536-byte frames and increment byte data (00, 01, 02, …) • 4-wire Range 700m (2300 ft) • Connectors  V.24/RS-232, DB-25 female  V.35, 34-pin female[...]

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    CAUTION European Users To reduce the risk of electric shock, fire and injury to persons: Use only with a power supply which complies with EN 60950. Sicherheitshinweise Das Ausrufezeichen innerhalb des gleichschenkligen Dreiecks soll den Benutzer auf wichtige Bedienungs- und Wartungshinweise in der dem Gerät beiliegenden Dokumentation aufmerksam ma[...]

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    INSTALLATION Configuring TinyBridge-100 1. Identify switches on top panel of TinyBridge-100. 2. Set switches according to Table 1 . Table 1. DIP Switch Settings Switch Switch Identity Function Possible Settings Factory Setting 1 100 LAN rate ON – 100 Mbps OFF – 10 Mbps ON 2 FDX LAN duplex mode ON – Full duplex OFF – Half duple x ON 3 AN Aut[...]

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    TERMINAL BLOCK SCREW TERMINAL RX TX GND 4-WIRE CABLE TinyBridge-100 WAN LAN 100 PWR LNG FLC FP ON 100 FDX AN ON FIL Figure 7. Connecting the 4-wire WAN Interface Connecting Power 1. Connect external power adapter to a mains outlet 2. Plug in the external power adapter jack to the TinyBridge-100. The PWR LED lights up Note: While the TinyBrid ge-100[...]

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    Table 4. DB-25 Pin Allocation (V.35) Pin Name Type 1 SHIELD 2 TxD-A Output 3 RxD-A Input 4 RTS-A Output 5 CTS-A Input 6 NC 7 GND 8 9 RCLK-B Input 10 NC 11 NC 12 TCLK-B Input 13 NC 14 TxD-B Output 15 TCLK-A Input 16 RxD-B Input 17 RCLK-A Input 18 NC 19 NC 20 NC 21 NC 22 NC 23 NC 24 NC 25 NC Table 5. DB-25 Pin Allocation (V.11) (used for RS-530, X.21[...]