Nortel Circuit Card 311 Reference page 331

System capacity and performance
Physical capacity
Each NT5D97 DDP2 card occupies one slot on the network shelf. Each card
supports two digital trunk circuits and two network loops. The total number
of DDP2 cards per system is limited by the number of network loops,
physical capacity of the shelf, number of DTI2/PRI2 interfaces allowed by
the software and the range of DCH addresses.
D-Channel capacity
The software configuration for the NTBK51AA DDCH is similar to the MSDL
and only supports D-channel functionality.
The system has a total capacity of 16 addresses (Device Addresses or
DNUM) that can be reserved for DCH card, MSDL card or DDCH card. One
exception is DNUM 0 which is commonly assigned to the TTY terminal.
No two different D-Channel providers can share the same DNUM. Hence,
the combined maximum number of DCH, MSDL and DDCH cards in the
system is 16.
The DCH has one D-Channel unit, the DDCH has two D-Channel units,
and the MSDL has a maximum of four units. Therefore, the total number
of D-Channel is derived by the following formula:
Total_Num_DCH-Units = Num_DCHx1 + Num_DDCHx2 +
Num_MSDLx4
Therefore, Total_Num_DCH-Units in any given system is between 0-63.
CPU capacity
Using a NT5D97 DDP2 card instead of DTI2/PRI2 cards does not increase
the load on the CPU. The DDP2 replaces an ENET card and two DTI2/PRI2
cards. Emulating the ENET card and the overall CPU capacity is not
impacted by using a DDP2 card instead of a DTI2/PRI2 card.
Power requirements
Table 138 "NT5D97 DDP2 power requirements" (page 331)
requirements for the NT5D97 DDP2 card.
Table 138
NT5D97 DDP2 power requirements
Voltage
+5V
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Source
Backplane
Nortel Communication Server 1000
Circuit Card Reference
NN43001-311 01.04 Standard
Release 5.0 23 May 2008
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lists the power
Current
DDP2
(without
NTBK51AA) NTBK51AA)
3A
DDP2
(with
3.8A