E3Switch DS3 Operating Information Manual

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    Ds3/e3 over ethernet pseudowire gateway v5.4 november 11 th , 2010 operating information.

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    Legal preface: copyright & trademarks copyright © 2007-2010 e3switch llc. All rights reserved. All other product names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Limited warranty e3switch llc (e3switch) guarantees that every unit is free from p...

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    This product has been tested and found to comply with the limits for class a information technology equipment according to cispr 22/european standard en 55022. The limits for class a equipment were derived for commercial and industrial environments to provide reasonable protection against interferen...

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    Table of contents c hapter 1: d escription and r equirements ..................................................................................................... 6 c hapter 2: q uick s et - up .............................................................................................................

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    C hapter 9: tdm lan p acket f ormat ........................................................................................................ 17 g eneral ......................................................................................................................................................

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    Chapter 1: description and requirements chapter 1: description and requirements the e3switch tdm-over-psn pseudowire gateways described herein are used in pairs to extend a full or fractional e3 or t3/ds3 tdm circuit over an intermediate ethernet layer-2 packet switched network (psn). The tdm circui...

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    Chapter 2: quick set-up chapter 2: quick set-up attach the gateway to a power source. The front panel lights should illuminate. Green is normal; orange indicates an error. Attach an ethernet utp5 cable from your lan equipment to the rj-45 lan port 2. The gateway can perform automatic cross-over vs s...

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    Chapter 4: remote management http and snmp chapter 4: remote management http and snmp gateways contain both an http management interface, which may be accessed via a web browser, and an snmpv2c agent. Unit's ip/mac address the source ethernet mac address of e3switch gateways is 00:50:c2:6f:xx:xx. Th...

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    Chapter 4: remote management http and snmp the following methods may be used to determine a gateway's ip address if lost or forgotten. Note that once determined, management communication with the unit may only be possible from a host configured to the same ip subnet address if the unit's default rou...

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    Chapter 4: remote management http and snmp – snmp vacm security warning – as shipped, the default “safe_ro_view” is secure but not private. View based access model vacm for snmpv2c provides good restriction of access to only specified statistics but no data privacy and minimal user authentication. W...

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    Chapter 4: remote management http and snmp snmp configuration of various parameters such as community names and trap destinations is accessed through the http management interface and is implemented as a configuration file having an snmpd.Conf structure. Snmpd.Conf is described by third parties in p...

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    Chapter 5: operating modes and configuration packet flow packet order 802.1p class of service (cos), and diffserv when appropriate, levels are configurable to ensure timely delivery of tdm packets through the lan. While traveling across packet switched networks, received packets may arrive out of se...

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    Chapter 5: operating modes and configuration port to port packet flow lan-to-lan full lan-to-lan packet flow can be enabled on a unit, if desired. This might be useful if it was desirable for incoming sfp management packets to exit the copper lan port 2 of the unit, along with the packets carrying t...

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    Chapter 5: operating modes and configuration sfp second lan port the sfp lan port 1 hardware exists on all gateways shipped and allows an sfp transceiver to enable out- of-band management, through either lan port, or fiber-optic lan connections of 10km or more. Refer to interoperability section of t...

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    Chapter 5: operating modes and configuration chapter 6: interoperability lan the lan ports of the gateway support, at a minimum, all 100basetx full-duplex ethernet connections up to maximum line lengths and are set to auto-mdi/mdix to automatically detect/correct crossover vs straight lan cable and ...

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    Chapter 6: interoperability direction at a rapid, consistent periodic rate, which is proportional to the difference in clock speeds of each tdm direction. Chapter 7: telecom connections framing and physical link the gateway can transmit the lan data over a variety of e3, t3/ds3 links (with the appro...

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    Chapter 8: lan connections and performance by the industry at the inception of 100basetx, resulting in some older lan equipment not understanding the gateway's autonegotiation advertisement of strictly full-duplex capability. It is highly desirable to leave autonegotiation enabled so that changing a...

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    Chapter 10: troubleshooting the least frequent cause of problems will be the hardware of the gateway itself. This statement is not due to a narcissistic point of view, but rather to the simplicity of configuration features on the gateway and the low-component count. A microwave radio link, for examp...

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    Chapter 10: troubleshooting 3. Ensure a proper lan cable is being used. Straight-through or crossover cabling is acceptable. The lan light of the gateway port to which any lan is attached should be illuminated and green. If not, ensure that the attached equipment is set for autonegotiation and can a...

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    Chapter 11: third party copyright notices all rights reserved permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and t...

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    Chapter 11: third party copyright notices trademarks of sun microsystems, inc. In the u.S. And other countries. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * redistributions of source code must retain ...

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    Chapter 11: third party copyright notices you may add your own copyright statement to your modifications and may provide additional or different license terms and conditions for use, reproduction, or distribution of your modifications, or for any such derivative works as a whole, provided your use, ...

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    Chapter 12: technical specifications and standards chapter 12: technical specifications and standards please see separate specification datasheet. 23.