Software Configuration of ATM ISE Line Cards for Cisco 12000 Series Routers
Information About the 4-Port ATM ISE Line Card
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Cisco IOS Release 12.0(27)S
Information About the 4-Port ATM ISE Line Card
The 4-Port ATM ISE line cards, which deliver line rate OC-12c/STM-4c or OC-3c/STM-1 bandwidth,
provide enhanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 capabilities for high-speed customer aggregation, backbone
connectivity, and peering solutions. These cards perform traffic shaping and per-virtual circuit (VC)
queueing, and support per-VC Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR) with per-VC low latency
queueing (LLQ). They also support Any Transport over MPLS (AToM), enhanced traffic policing, and
the ability to configure both AToM VCs and terminated VCs on a single port.
MDRR is implemented on a per-VC basis with up to eight queues per VC, where one of the queues is a
low latency queue (LLQ). Both per-VC Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) and per-VC MDRR
are performed in the hardware.
The 4-Port OC-12c/STM-4c ATM ISE line card provides the Cisco 12000 Series Router with four
622-Mbps ATM interfaces. The 4-Port OC-3c/STM-1 ATM ISE line card provides four 155-Mbps ATM
interfaces. The cards communicate with the Cisco 12000 Series Router switch fabric.
Features of the 4-Port ATM ISE Line Card
The following are the features supported by the 4-Port ATM ISE line cards:
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Traffic shaping on a per-VC and per-virtual path (VP) basis with a minimum granularity of 1 Kbps,
in compliance with I.371 granularity definition.
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Per-VC queueing using configurable per-VC queue limits or per-VC WRED.
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A VC address can be any of the virtual path identifier (VPI) and virtual channel identifier (VCI)
range. User-network interface (UNI) VPIs can be in the range of 0..255; network-to-network
interface (NNI) VPIs can be in the range of 0..4095. VCIs can be in the range 0..65,535.
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Per-VC statistics through hardware.
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Per-port statistics through hardware.
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AAL5 [I.362] [I.363] reassembly and segmentation.
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Non-real-time variable bit rate (VBR-nrt) and real time variable bit rate (VBR-rt) traffic shaping
with 99+ percent shaping accuracy.
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Constant bit rate (CBR) traffic shaping with 99+ percent shaping accuracy.
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Unspecified bit rate (UBR) with support for optional peak cell rate (PCR) parameter with 99+
percent shaping accuracy.
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VP tunnel traffic shaping for the full range of VPI on UNI interfaces—up to 256 VP tunnels per port.
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Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of up to 9180 bytes.
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Each VC supports up to 9K MTU.
Maximum number of AToM Tunnels per line card with features
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1024
Maximum number of AToM Tunnels per line card with cell packing
1024
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Includes features such as policing
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Scalability Limitations for the 4-Port ATM ISE Line Card (continued)
Feature
Layer 2
Limitation