CompactPCI High-Desity Trunk Interface
The NMS Convergence Generation
(CG) 6100C Series provides high-density digital trunk
interfaces combined with digital signal processing
(DSP) resources for signaling and echo cancellation
on a CompactPCI (cPCI) board set (main board and rear
transition board). The CG 6100C offers rear panel
access for either 8 or 16 spans of E1 or T1. Some
configurations include a daughterboard with DSP resources
for more ports of IVR and fax. The CG 6100C is fully
H.110 (CT Bus) compliant to support switching of voice
paths with trunk boards or any H.110 timeslot. The
high-density of trunks saves valuable cPCI slots in
the large, high-availability environments of service
providers and carrier-class system applications such
as media servers, switches, wireless infrastructure,
and enhanced services platforms.
NMS provides developers with the widest
range of PCI and cPCI options all under Natural
Access, a unified program development environment
which provides a common API set to all Alliance Generation®
and Convergence Generation digital and analog board
Features:
- Provides channelized T1/E1 interfaces
for up to 480 DS0 streams
- Included rear transition board supports
one or two standard RJ-48T interface connectors
- Designed for use with Alliance Generation
and Convergence Generation DSP resource boards to
provide cost-effective IVR, fax and VoIP solutions
- Implements full H.110 (CT Bus) specification
with 4,096 timeslots to build high-capacity systems
- Uses MVIP-95 switching model
- Feature-rich Natural Access software
development kits support Windows® , Intel®
and SPARC® Solaris , and Linux®
- On-board call control eliminates
host processor load, allowing systems to scale to
large size
- On-board call control features eliminate
the need for an extra resource board for CAS call
control
- Supports A-law or µ-law PCM
encoding, simplifying development for applications
running both T1 or E1
- Provides dual 10/100Base-T Ethernet
interfaces
- Software configuration of trunks
as T1 or E1 (120 ohm)
- Supports ISDN PRI, CAS, MFC-R2, and
wink protocols
- Offers echo cancellation (20 ms tails)
on all supported IVR ports
- StrongARM processor runs LAPB, LAPD,
Q.921 and Q.931 ISDN, and QSIG call control
- Heartbeat function allows host tracking
of board operation
- Supports full PICMG hot-swap standard
Configuration:
The CG 6100C is available in the following
8 and 16 trunk configurations:
- CG 6100C/4-8TE, for switching and
30 ports of IVR
- CG 6100C/10-8TE, for CAS or ISDN
- CG 6100C/20-8TE, for CAS or ISDN
with 64 ports of IVR
- CG 6100C/4-16TE, for switching
- CG 6100C/10-16TE, for switching and
60 ports of IVR
- CG 6100C/20-16TE, for CAS or ISDN
- CG 6100C/20D16-16TE, for CAS or ISDN
with 120 ports of IVR
The CG 6100C hardware supports the capability
for software configuration as either E1 or T1 trunks.
Technical Description:
Natural
Access Program Development
The CG 6100C Series is supported using NMS' Natural
Access software development and runtime environment.
Natural Access provides a consistent set of APIs that
are operating system-independent, delivering application
portability. With Natural Access Call Control,
programmers can easily and quickly develop applications
that run on multiple types of telecommunications interfaces
by using a single protocol-independent API. Natural
Call Control minimizes the processing overhead on
the host CPU by executing protocols on the board's
processor. Natural Access unifies application development
across NMS' Alliance Generation and Convergence Generation
products.
The CG 6100C handles the call control
on-board and interrupts the host CPU when an event
requires application action, minimizing host loading.
However, with a density of 480 DS0s per slot, call
activity can reach high levels when a number of CG
6100Cs are installed. Careful attention to loading
on the host CPU is required during application design.
H.110 Support
Assures Open Architecture, Vendor Independence
The CG 6100C Series provides full support of the ECTF
H.110 specification. The H.110 bus provides 4,096
timeslots operating at 8 MHz. The H.110 bus also allows
programmable operating speeds at 2, 4, or 8 MHz for
direct connection to existing boards at their native
operating speeds.
The CG 6100C Series uses the Lucent
Microelectronics Ambassador chip family that
offers full support for the H.100 bus within the MVIP
hierarchical architecture. It also provides an additional
1,024 timeslots of local on-board switching, improving
overall application efficiency and system scalability.
Dual Redundant
Ethernet
The CG 6100C features dual redundant 10/100 Base-T
Ethernet interfaces. These can be used either as two
independent subnets or in an automatic failover mode
that switches traffic to the alternate interface without
interruption of in-progress calls. This feature protects
against cut wires or hub failure.
Diagnostics
In addition to diagnostics run at boot-up time, the
CG 6100C performs run-time diagnostics for the following
events:
- Rear Transition Board Missing: If
the CG 6100C senses that the rear transition board
is not properly inserted, thus interrupting the
trunk paths, it will alarm the application.
- Temperature Measurements: The application
can request current temperature from sensors placed
on the board.
Technical Specification:
General
- Processor: 233 MHz SA110 StrongArm
with 32 MB SDRAM
- DSP: TI TMS320C5420 with a dual 100
MIPS core plus 200 kB SRAM
- Expansion: Daughterboard connector
with local PCI bus and local TDM bus
- Ethernet: Dual 10/100Base-T connectors
- LED Indicators: Hot Swap (blue);
one per T1/E1 indicating operational status (green);
two green for each Ethernet
Host Interface
- Electrical: PCI Local Bus specification
Revision 2.1
- Mechanical: PICMG 2.0, R2.1 CompactPCI
- Bus speed: DC to 33 MHz
- Bus type: 32-bit master or slave
- I/O mapped memory: Memory-mapped
interface for efficient block data transfers
- Address/interrupts: Address and interrupts
automatically configured by PCI BIOS (no jumpers
or switches)
Software Environment
- Development environment: Natural
Access 4.x
- Host Operating Systems: Windows NT
4 with Service Pack 5, Windows 2000, Intel Solaris
V7, SPARC Solaris V7 and V8 (64-bit), and Red Hat®
Linux V6.2
- Hot Swap: Per PICMG 2.1
- Management:
- OAM 1.x
- Standard Trunk MIBs and CG 6100
MIB
H.110 Support
- Flexible connectivity between analog
station ports and H.110 bus
- 512 full-duplex connections to bus
- 1,024 local connections
- Switchable access to any of 4,096
timeslots
- Individual data lines may be programmed
in groups of 2, 4, or 8 Mbps for direct connection
to boards with previous compatible technology
- H.110 bus clock master or clock slave
(software selectable)
- H.110 bus termination (switch enabled)
- Lucent Microelectronics Ambassador
T8105 chips
DSP Processing
- Universal port capability:
PSTN Network
Connectivity
- Protocols:
- Channel Associated Signaling
(CAS): MFC-R2 (many country-specific variants),
DID, R1.5, Winkstart MF/DTMF, loopstart T1,
ground start T1, operator workstation T1, pulsed
E&M, Feature Group D, SS5, off-premise station
SA and FX, MF Socotel, Australian P2, three
European country-specific variants of CAS
- Common Channel Signaling: 11
variants of ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI)
- Interface connectors: One or two
RJ-48T connectors on rear transition card panel
- Interfaces to short-haul trunks
DSX-1 Telephony
Interface
- Interface: Complete interface for
up to 16 T1 trunks (ANSI T1.102, T1.403)
- Framing: D4, ESF
- Insertion/generation and extraction/detection:
ABCD bits
- Line code: AMI, B8ZS
- Zero bit: Suppression selectable
B8ZS, jammed bit (ZCS) or no zero code suppression
- Alarm signal capabilities: Yellow,
Red, and Blue
- Counts: Bipolar violation, F(t) error,
and CRC error
- Robbed bit: Selectable on a per-trunk
basis
- Loopback: Per-channel and overall
under software control. Automatic remote loopback
with CSU option
- Connector: Up to four RJ-48C connectors
- Mix of ISDN and CAS trunks on single
board
CEPT E1 G.703
Telephony Interface
- Interface: 8 or 16 G.703 trunks (120
ohm)
- 75-ohm trunks: Must use an external
120 ohm to 75 ohm converter such as NMS part number
33050
- Framing: CEPT G.703/G.704 Channel
Associated Signaling
- Insertion/generation and extraction/
detection: ABCD bits for CAS; HDLC/LAPD for generating
terminating data link
- Line code: HDB3 or AMI (no zero code
suppression)
- Zero bit suppression: B8ZS, jammed
bit (ZCS) or no zero code suppression
- Alarm signals: Yellow, Red, and Blue
- Counts: Bit error rates, CRC errors,
slips, line code violations, far-end block errors
- Loopback: DS0 and E1 level (software
control)
Tone Dialing
- DTMF digits: 0 to 9, *, #, and ABCD
per ITU Q.23 and Q.24
- Rate: Programmable (10 digits/sec
nominal)
- Wait-for-dial tone capability
- Dialing parameters: Software configurable
(see Note*)
- Dialing amplitude: Software configurable;
range -33 dBm to +1 dBm (see Note*)
Pulse Dialing
- 10 digits: 0 to 9
- Pulsing rate: 10 pulse/sec (nominal)
- Make/break ratio: Software configurable
40/60 nominal (see Note*)
*Note: NMS supplies configuration files
that conform to national regulations for countries
where certification has been received.
DTMF Tone Detection
- DTMF digits: 0 to 9, *, #, ABCD
- Dynamic range: -47 dBm to 0 dBm per
tone, programmable
- Tone duration: 40 ms (minimum)
- Acceptable twist: 10 dB
- Talk-off: Exceeds Bellcore TR-TSY-000763
tests
Analog Display
Services Interface (ADSI)
- Capable of sending and receiving
Frequency Shift Key (FSK) data for ADSI
- Transmit FSK function implements
modem portion of Bellcore advisory TA-NWT-000030
- 1200 Baud FSK support
- Caller ID support
- Easy to use API support in Natural
Access
Switch Compatibility
- EuroISDN
- Lucent 5ESS
- Nortel DMS-100, DMS-250
Power
- 2.3 A max. @ 5.0 V
- 5 A max. @ 3.3 V
Environment
- Operating temperature: 0 C to +50
C
- Storage temperature: -20 C to +70
C
- Humidity: 5% to 80%, non-condensing
- Fire resistance: UL-94V0
CompactPCI Chassis
Requirements
- J3 connector isolation rating: For
the 16 T1/E1 board, the J3 connector must have a
500 Vdc breakdown rating to all other paths
Standards and Compliance
- Digital multiplexer requirements
and objectives: AT&T pub. 43802, July 82
- Service description and interface
specifications: AT&T TR 62411, ACCUNET T1.5
- Carrier to customer installation
DS1 metallic interface: ANSI T1E1/88-001R1, Feb.
88
- ANSI T1 standard for ISDN Primary
Rate Interface: T1E1.4/8868 (proposed text) April
88
- Primary Rate User-Network Interface
Layer 1 Specification: ITU-T I.431, June 88
- ISDN Primary Rate Interface Specification:
AT&T Pub. TR41449 AND TR41459, June 85
- PCI SIG: PCI Specification Revision
2.1
- ECTF: H.110 Revision 1.0
- CompactPCI: PICMG 2.0, Rev. 2.1
- Hot Swap: PICMG 2.1, Rev. 1.0
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