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1. Auto negotiation- The standards for 1000BASE-T (4-pair Cat5) and 1000BASE-TX (2-pair Cat6)
require autonegotiation to be always present and enabled (for GbE its mandatory). Other than
speed and duplex mode, autonegotiation is used to communicate the port type (single port or
multiport) and the master-slave parameters, which standard is used (between IEEE 802.3 and
IEEE 802.9)
Multiport devices have higher priority to become master than single port devices. If both devices
are multiport devices, the one with higher speed rate becomes the master.
1. The Data cards have not only the SW HW but also they have the matrix allocation for the WAN
ports (16x VC4).
2. LAN port-> SW -> WAN port (the LAN ports and the WAN ports share the same SW).
3. Switch capacity - 3Gbps -HW RESTRICTION: it means – we used 1 ETY port (sum=1Gbps)
and we want to give a full rate WAN port (EoS=7 x VC4 from the matrix and 1G from the SW
capacity, up until now we used 2 ports of the switch, each one equals to 1G, summary of 2G
already in use from the SW capacity), we have 1Gbps more for the rest of the ports (ETY+EoS).
4. LAG- up to 4 members per LAG.
5. RSTP – can be implemented between NEs of the same version.(v4->v4).
6. Full interoperability with ESW, BG-20B_L2, FE_L12 (L2 CARD) & MET_L1 – data cards in BG-40,
µLan - old product of ECI that supported FE ports.