Re: (ASCEND) Is the TNT OC3 ATM Card a true OC3 card?

[Eden Akhavi <akhavi@hove.internetfci.com>]

We have been running tests on the OC3 card and it appears to be as our
sales representative
said a DS3 card with an OC3 interface. The card seems pretty stable
connected to a GX.

At 03:48 PM 3/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Thanks for the note.
>
>Unfortunately the only tech specs I've located refer to three buses, but no
>indication as the the speed of each bus or the roles each part of the TNT
>play in those buses.
>
>d.p.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>
>To: Dan Pinkard <dan@broadspan.net>
>Cc: ascend-users@bungi.com <ascend-users@bungi.com>
>Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 9:05 PM
>Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Is the TNT OC3 ATM Card a true OC3 card?
>
>
>>The TNT has 3 separate buses. One for packet data, one for TDM and one for
>>control. There ought to be an architecture guide on the web somewhere...
>>
>>
>>At 04:07 PM 2/28/99 -0600, Dan Pinkard wrote:
>>>
>>>How seperate are the buses on a TNT? Does traffic from an ethernet
>>>interface occupy a timeslot alongside any DS0 of traffic headed to a
>>>resource card?
>>>
>>>On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matt Holdrege wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 08:47 PM 2/8/99 +0100, Eden Akhavi wrote:
>>>> >Does the TNT OC3 support full OC3 or is it just a DS3 with OC3
>Interface?
>>>>
>>>> It's a full OC3. But think about how much data you are transporting from
>>>> the other interfaces. Realistically, would they generate much more than
>>>> 45Mbps sustained?
>>>>
>>>> It would also depend on how much traffic is on the internal bus. Thanks
>to
>>>> the performance improvements we've made, we've reduced a lot of the
>>>> extraneous traffic from the data bus. In optimal situations, you could
>>>> generate a lot of traffic from the media cards to an OC-3 egress. But in
>>>> most ISP situations, you have bursty traffic.
>>>>
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