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• Lower order Adapter LOA (not available in current release) card which is needed to enable
LO processing capabilities and hosting LOA processing parts as well (4 LOA max. + 1 for
protection)
– A subset of up to 6 dedicated (colored) LO "half" slots can be taken away from the set of
32 universal "half" slots and equipped with LOA cards.
Figure 9. summarizes slot allocation of LOA cards.
• WDM optical cards both passive (like C/DWDM Mx/Dx, Optical Amplifiers, MVAC etc.) and
payload processing (like transponders)
– The cards can only fit in the "normal" slots (or "small" slots in same cases as for OPC)
belonging to a subset of up to 8 dedicated slots taken from the set of 16 universal full slots.
Figure 6 summarizes slot allocation of WDM cards.
• Data cards
– 20G Packet Processor card (PP20G) taking "double full" slots
– 16XGE Packet Module card (PM16XGE) taking a single full slot; not available in current
release
c) Common parts are put in the remaining 15TEC
• EC320 card (Main and Spare) providing the First Level controller function along with the mass
storage part (Hard Disk)
– Two "half" size slots on the left side of the shelf are reserved to this function.
• POW320 and SERV320 (A & B) cards are put in the last slot on the right side of the shelf which
is divided in three parts:
– Two parts are symmetrical and reserved to (redundant) POW320 functions powering the
whole shelf and providing ext sync interfaces.
– The third part is reserved to the unprotected Service functions(SERV320) providing EOW
and AUX channels. Not available in current release
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