Chapter 18 Configuring Trunks And Adding Interface Shelves; Configuring Trunks - Cisco BPX 8620 Installation And Configuration Manual

Configuring Trunks and Adding Interface Shelves
This chapter describes how to configure trunks and add interface shelves.
After you have configured the nodes, you must activate the trunks. Trunks are intranode communication
links in a network. A trunk can connect any combination of IGX or BPX nodes.
Contents of this chapter include:
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Before proceeding to this chapter, you should first complete the procedures in:
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For details on virtual trunking, see:
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Configuring Trunks

Trunk characteristics are:
Physical line type:
Communication technology:
The communication technology for each node type, card combination, and line type are listed in
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Release 9.3.30, Part Number 78-12907-01 Rev. E0, May 2005
Configuring Trunks
Adding an Interface Shelf
Part 2, Installation
Chapter 17, "Initial BPX 8600 Node Configuration"
Chapter 23, "Configuring BXM Virtual Switch Interface"
Chapter 24, "Configuring BXM Virtual Trunks"
T1 (including fractional) and IMA
E1 (including fractional) and IMA
Subrate, E3, T3, or
OC-3 (STM1) and OC-12 with BXM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or FastPackets.
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