Cisco Small Form-Factor Pluggable Ethernet-to-T3 Remote Bridge

Product Overview

The Cisco^® Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Ethernet-to-T3 Remote Bridge forwards Gigabit Ethernet packets to a WAN based on time-division multiplexing (TDM) at full-duplex T3 wire speed, fully using the expensive T3 TDM bandwidth to take advantage of existing DS3 linkage to provide an end-to-end Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul solution.

SFP remote bridge applications include the following (Figure 1):

● Transparent LAN services over leased lines

● Remote branch-office connectivity over T3 lines

● Connection of LANs over T3 radio links or in campus applications

Features and Benefits

● Supports standard generic framing procedure (GFP), High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), and Cisco HDLC (cHDLC) encapsulation protocols

● Provides T3 connectivity to Ethernet

● Provides full-duplex, T3 wire-speed packet forwarding

● Supports 64- to 10,000-byte frame sizes for Gigabit Ethernet, including VLAN-tagged frames

● Transparently directs LAN traffic

Table 1 summarizes the main features and their specifications.

Table 1. Features

The SFP remote bridge is supported on the Ethernet Services Plus (ES+) line cards shown in Table 2.

Table 2. Platform Support

Product Specifications

Table 3 shows the SPF remote bridge product specifications.

Table 3. Product Specifications

System Requirements

The SPF remote bridge requires ES+ line cards and Cisco IOS^® Software Release 15.1(1)S and later for Cisco 7600 Series Routers.

Warranty Information

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Ordering Information

To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering homepage. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center. Table 4 lists the ordering information.

Table 4. Ordering Information

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