Vsi Master And Slaves; Figure 23-1 Bxm Virtual Interfaces And Qbins - Cisco BPX-BXM-155-8DX Installation And Configuration Manual

Chapter 23 Configuring BXM Virtual Switch Interfaces

Figure 23-1 BXM Virtual Interfaces and Qbins

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VSI Master and Slaves

A controller application uses a VSI master to control one or more VSI slaves. For the BPX, the
controller application and Master VSI reside in an external 7200 or 7500 series router and the VSI
slaves are resident in BXM cards on the BPX node (see Figure 23-2).
The controller sets up these types of connections:
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Control virtual connections (VCs)
– Master to Slave
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– User connection (that is, cross-connect)
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