Circuit Emulation Service Module for T3 and E3
Circuit Emulation Service Module for T3 and E3
The main function of the Circuit Emulation Service Module (CESM) is to provide a constant bit rate
(CBR) service. The CESM converts data streams into CBR AAL1 cells according to the CES-IS
specifications of the ATM Forum for unstructured transport across an ATM network. Unstructured
transport means the CESM does not interpret or modify framing bits, so a high-speed CESM creates
a single data pipe The most common application is legacy support for digitized voice from a PBX or
video from a codec. Using circuit emulation, a company can expand its data communication network
without specific voice or video cards to meet its voice or teleconferencing requirements.
The higher speed CESM uses a T3 or E3 line. The card set consists of an MGX-CESM-T3 or
MGX-CESM-E3 front card and either a BNC-2T3 or BNC-2E3 back card. In this CESM
application, only one line on the two-port back card is operational. Furthermore, it supports one
logical port and one logical connection (as a data pipe) on the line and runs at the full T3 or E3 rate.
Although the typical connection setup is the three-segment connection across an ATM network, the
CESM can support a DAX connection. Up to 26 CESM card sets can operate in an MGX 8850 node.
Features
The MGX-CESM-T3 or MGX-CESM-E3 provide the following:
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Unstructured data transfer at 44.736 Mbps (1189980 cells per second) for T3 or 34.368 Mbps
(91405 cells per second) for E3
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Synchronous timing by either a local clock sourced on the PXM or loop timing (transmit clock
derived from receive clock on the line)
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1:1 redundancy is through a Y-cable
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Programmable egress buffer size (in the form of cell delay variation)
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Programmable cell delay variation tolerance (CDVT)
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Per VC queuing for the transmit and receive directions
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An idle code suppression option
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Bit count integrity when a lost AAL1 cell condition arises
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Alarm state definitions per G.704
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Trunk conditioning by way of framed AIS for T3 and unframed, alternating 1s and 0s for E3
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On-board bit error rate testing (BERT)
Cell Delay Treatment
You can configure a tolerable variation in the cell arrival time (CDVT) for the receive buffer. After
an underrun, the receiver places the contents of the first cell to arrive in a receive buffer then plays
it out at least one CDVT value later. The maximum cell delay and CDVT (or jitter) are:
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For T3
— Cell delay of 4 msec
— CDVT of 1.5 msec in increments of 125 microseconds
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For E3
— Cell delay of 2.9 msec
— CDVT of 2 msec in increments of 125 microseconds
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Cisco MGX 8850 Installation and Configuration, Release 1.1.00, Part Number 78-6186-02