Unit Overview; Summary Of Features; Figure 1: Ether-1000 Unit - GE JungleMUX SONET Technical Practice

2. UNIT OVERVIEW

A JungleMUX SONET system provides a mechanism to transport various forms
of electronic data over an optical fiber. One application is to provide a bridging
function between two or more Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 LAN that are physically
separate. The 86498 ETHER-1000 unit addresses the applications where it is
required to provide more than 300 Mb/s of capacity between LANs, or the
applications where the extended set of features offered by this unit is the
imperative (refer to 86418 ETHER-100 and 86438 ETHER-10 Unit Technical
Practice and Installation Manuals for comparison). The unit acts as an intelligent
learning bridge, forwarding to other units only those frames that are not locally
addressed.

Summary of Features

 IEEE
802.3
interfaces for
10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet LANs.
 Use of 1 to 24 STS-1 SPEs for inter-
bridge data transport (50 to 1200 Mb/s).
 Bandwidth partitioning into multiple (up
to 4) independent TDM streams (TDM
pipes) where
bandwidth can range from 1 to 24 STS-
1 SPEs.
 Supports point-to-point, linear and ring
network topologies. Each TDM stream
can be configured into an independent
network topology with one or more
remote ETHER-1000 and/or ETHER-
100 units.
between contiguous
collocated nodes).
 Provides rapid path switching after a fiber or JMUX unit failure in ring
applications (typically within 5 ms).
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For ETHER-1000 firmware versions <3.00, some features are either not supported or supported
in a limited fashion.
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compatible Ethernet
direct attachment
individual stream‟s
Traffic can be passed
networks
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