PASSPORT 7480

General
1. The Nortel Multiservice Switch 7480 shelf supports a maximum of
16 processor cards: a CP with 14 function processors and a spare CP
(or 15 FPs without a spare CP). For a detailed view, see the figure 16-
slot Multiservice Switch 7480. You can install the Multiservice Switch
7480 in a cabinet, Multiservice Switch seismic cabinet, or in a standard
19-inch rack. A standard 19-inch rack can hold two Multiservice Switch
7480 nodes, or one node and its related termination panels

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Switch 7480

Multiservice Switch Control Processors

2. The Nortel Multiservice Switch 7400 control processor (CP) card
controls overall processing in the node. Some of the basic functions it
performs are booting the switch, collecting and maintaining shelf
inventory and statistical data, as well as maintaining routing tables.

3. The card contains a standard core computing engine with a disk

drive, as well as circuits to provide a Stratum-3 timing reference, the
external clock synchronization interfaces (DS1/E1), and operation
access ports (Ethernet, RS-232 interfaces). The CP can operate in
redundant mode. In redundant mode, two CPs must be installed. These
two CPs contain duplicated information and are connected with
redundant links. While one CP operates as the active card, the second
card operates in warm standby mode to provide high availability. If the
active CP should fail, the standby CP automatically takes over.

Multiservice Switch Function Processors

4. Function processors (FP) provide interface ports that connect
network communications facilities to Nortel Multiservice Switch nodes.
FPs support and execute real-time processes that enable service
delivery.

5. The function of the FP is determined by the type of electrical or

optical interface on the card, as well as the software running on the
processor. Each type of interface provides circuitry and faceplate
connectors specific to its function.

6. Some electrical FPs must be provided with special interface cables

and a separate fanout panel in cases where there is insufficient
faceplate area for standard connectors, or where FP sparing is required.
Different FP types are available for Multiservice Switch nodes to support
specific link interfaces.

7. Many FPs use termination panels and support 1:1 sparing.

Electrical FPs that support sparing require a sparing panel. Some optical
FPs can support sparing without the use of a termination panel. Some
termination panels also break out the ports of the FP so that each port
has an access and termination point for customer equipment
connections. Each FP supports one or more services.

Passport architectural highlights include the following:

a) The shelf has two load-shared buses, each running at 800 Mbps
resulting in 1.6 Gbps capacity on the backplane.
 b) A cell-based backplane permits both frame-based switching and
cell-based switching.
c) A pipelined, fair arbitration scheme on the backplane ensures
efficient use of bandwidth.
d) On the Passport 7480, each shelf supports a total of 16 cards,
including one or two control processors for shelf control, and up to
14 functional processors (with CP redundancy), providing various
physical interfaces and services support.
e) On the Passport 7440, each shelf supports 5 cards, including one
or two control processors for shelf control, and up to three
functional processors (with CP redundancy), which provide various
physical interfaces and services support.
f) Function processors and control processors use a common
processor module in conjunction with application-specific interface
modules.

Back-plane Cell Based Bus

The back-plane of each Passport is a high speed, cell-based buss for

inter-processor communication. The buss is made up of two, load
sharing 800 Mbit/second busses that run in parallel, load sharing mode
that can take over operation of the complete shelf should one of the
busses fails.

Control Processor (CP)

The control processor manages and controls Passport applications

supporting both system and network functions, including shelf
management functions such as monitoring and alarm processing, and
connecting to a network management system. For common redundancy,
a second Control Processor can be added. In the redundant
arrangement, Control Processors are inserted into the left and right-most
shelf slots. The redundant CP operates in a hot standby state to provide
high availability.

Function Processors (Port Cards)

Function processors provide the physical interfaces and the distributed

processing necessary to deliver each of the specific services required. A
number of Function Processors are application specific (i.e. LAN, Voice)
and a number can be used to run multiple services (i.e.. V.35 FP’s and
T1 FP’s).

Passport Services

ATM services:

 UNI 3.0/3.1 interfaces

 IISP 1.0 interfaces, IISP static routing
 PNNI routing and signalling (subset of ATM-Forum PNNI V1.0
routing and
 UNI 4.0 signalling)
 PVCs, soft PVCs, SVCs
 AAL1 Unstructured and Structured CES
 ATM trunks (AAL5 or AAL-SPO)
 ATM MPE (RFC 1483)
 Accounting, shaping and policing Inverse Multipliexing for ATM
(IMA)

LAN services:

 LAN media: Ethernet 10BaseT, Token Ring and FDDI

 WAN encapsulation: Frame Relay, X.25, PPP, ATM MPE (RFC
1483)
 IP routing using OSPF (support VLSM/CIDR) , RIP, or EGP
 IPX routing using RIP (including IPX RIP filtering)
 Transparent, Domain, Cluster, source-route and source-route
transparent bridging
 SNA Data Link Routing
 NetSentry filtering for security

Frame Relay services:

 User-to-network interface (UNI) up to 50 Mbps rates
 Network-to-network interface (NNI) up to 50 Mbps rates
 Interworking with DPN-100 Frame Relay service
 Frame Relay ATM interworking (FRF.5 and FRF.8)

DPN-100 interworking:

 Provides high capacity backbone for existing DPN-100 Networks

DPN Gateway Service
Transparent Data services:

 Bit transparent connection for video and other CBR traffic

 HDLC transparent connection for HDLC-framed traffic idle pattern
suppression for bandwidth management

Voice services:

 Transport of digital voice with integral voice compression and echo

cancellation
 Dynamic routing of voice calls through Passport network based on
dialed number
 Support for ETSI QSIG and NIS signaling protocols