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T1/E1/J1 FRAMER/LIU COMBO - ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION
REV. 1.2.2
LIST OF PARAGRAPHS
1.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND INTERFACE .........................................................................................4
1.1 PHYSICAL INTERFACE ......................................................................................................................................4
1.2 R3 TECHNOLOGY (RELAYLESS / RECONFIGURABLE / REDUNDANCY) ....................................................5
1.2.1 LINE CARD REDUNDANCY ........................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.2 TYPICAL REDUNDANCY SCHEMES ............................................................................................................................ 5
1.2.3 1:1 AND 1+1 REDUNDANCY WITHOUT RELAYS ........................................................................................................ 5
1.2.4 TRANSMIT INTERFACE WITH 1:1 AND 1+1 REDUNDANCY ...................................................................................... 5
1.2.5 RECEIVE INTERFACE WITH 1:1 AND 1+1 REDUNDANCY ......................................................................................... 6
1.3 POWER FAILURE PROTECTION .......................................................................................................................7
1.4 OVERVOLTAGE AND OVERCURRENT PROTECTION ....................................................................................7
1.5 NON-INTRUSIVE MONITORING .........................................................................................................................7
1.6 T1/E1 SERIAL PCM INTERFACE .......................................................................................................................8
1.7 T1/E1 FRACTIONAL INTERFACE ......................................................................................................................9
1.8 T1/E1 TIME SLOT SUBSTITUTION AND CONTROL .......................................................................................10
1.9 ROBBED BIT SIGNALING/CAS SIGNALING ...................................................................................................11
1.10 OVERHEAD INTERFACE ................................................................................................................................12
1.11 FRAMER BYPASS MODE ...............................................................................................................................14
1.12 HIGH-SPEED NON-MULTIPLEXED INTERFACE ..........................................................................................15
1.13 HIGH-SPEED MULTIPLEXED INTERFACE ...................................................................................................16
2.0 LOOPBACK MODES OF OPERATION .................................................................................................17
2.1 LIU PHYSICAL INTERFACE LOOPBACK DIAGNOSTICS ..............................................................................17
2.1.1 LOCAL ANALOG LOOPBACK .................................................................................................................................... 17
2.1.2 REMOTE LOOPBACK .................................................................................................................................................. 17
2.1.3 DIGITAL LOOPBACK ................................................................................................................................................... 18
2.1.4 DUAL LOOPBACK ....................................................................................................................................................... 18
2.1.5 FRAMER REMOTE LINE LOOPBACK ........................................................................................................................ 19
2.1.6 FRAMER LOCAL LOOPBACK ..................................................................................................................................... 19
3.0 HDLC CONTROLLERS AND LAPD MESSAGES .................................................................................20
3.1 STORING AND RETRIEVING MESSAGE CONTENTS ....................................................................................21
3.2 PROGRAMMING SEQUENCE FOR SENDING HDLC MESSAGES ................................................................22
3.3 PROGRAMMING SEQUENCE FOR RECEIVING LAPD MESSAGES .............................................................23
3.4 RECEIVE HDLC EVENT TIMING ......................................................................................................................24
3.5 SS7 (SIGNALING SYSTEM NUMBER 7) FOR ESF IN DS1 ONLY ..................................................................24
3.6 DS1/E1 DATALINK TRANSMISSION USING THE HDLC CONTROLLERS ...................................................25
3.7 TRANSMIT BOS (BIT ORIENTED SIGNALING) PROCESSOR .......................................................................25
3.7.1 DESCRIPTION OF BOS ................................................................................................................................................ 25
3.7.2 PRIORITY CODEWORD MESSAGE ............................................................................................................................ 25
3.7.3 COMMAND AND RESPONSE INFORMATION ............................................................................................................ 25
3.8 TRANSMIT MOS (MESSAGE ORIENTED SIGNALING) PROCESSOR ..........................................................26
3.8.1 DISCUSSION OF MOS ................................................................................................................................................. 26
3.8.2 PERIODIC PERFORMANCE REPORT ........................................................................................................................ 27
3.8.3 TRANSMISSION-ERROR EVENT ................................................................................................................................ 27
3.8.4 PATH AND TEST SIGNAL IDENTIFICATION MESSAGE ........................................................................................... 28
3.8.5 FRAME STRUCTURE ................................................................................................................................................... 28
3.8.6 FLAG SEQUENCE ........................................................................................................................................................ 28
3.8.7 ADDRESS FIELD .......................................................................................................................................................... 28
3.8.8 ADDRESS FIELD EXTENSION BIT (EA) ..................................................................................................................... 28
3.8.9 COMMAND OR RESPONSE BIT (C/R) ........................................................................................................................ 28
3.8.10 SERVICE ACCESS POINT IDENTIFIER (SAPI) ........................................................................................................ 29
3.8.11 TERMINAL ENDPOINT IDENTIFIER (TEI) ................................................................................................................. 29
3.8.12 CONTROL FIELD ........................................................................................................................................................ 29
3.8.13 FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE (FCS) FIELD ............................................................................................................... 29
3.8.14 TRANSPARENCY (ZERO STUFFING) ....................................................................................................................... 29
3.9 TRANSMIT SLC96 DATA LINK CONTROLLER ............................................................................................30
3.10 D/E TIME SLOT TRANSMIT HDLC CONTROLLER BLOCK V5.1 OR V5.2 INTERFACE ............................31
3.11 AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE REPORT (APR) ............................................................................................31
3.11.1 BIT VALUE INTERPRETATION ................................................................................................................................. 31
4.0 OVERHEAD INTERFACE BLOCK ........................................................................................................33
4.1 DS1 TRANSMIT OVERHEAD INPUT INTERFACE BLOCK .............................................................................33
4.1.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE DS1 TRANSMIT OVERHEAD INPUT INTERFACE BLOCK ................................................ 33