General Specifications; Standards Supported; Data Rate And Encoding; Mean Time Between Failure - Nortel 1600 Series Installing

46 Technical specifications

General specifications

General specifications including supported standards, data rate and encoding,
performance, address database sizes, and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
are listed in the sections that follow.

Standards supported

IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Clause 4 Media Access Control CSMA/CD
IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Clause 14 10Base T New
IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Clause 21 100Base T
ANSI/IEEE Std 802.1D, 1998 Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges
IEEE 802.1Q Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks
IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Clause 34-42
IEEE Std 802.3, 1998 Clause 31 (MAC Control)

Data rate and encoding

10 Mb/s Manchester encoding
100 Mb/s 4B/5B encoding
1000 Mb/s 8B/10B encoding

Mean Time Between Failure

Ethernet Routing Switch 1612G: 177,000 hours
Ethernet Routing Switch 1624G: 158,000 hours
Ethernet Routing Switch 1648T: 153,000 hours
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