Switch fabric, The power system, Overview – Avaya 580 User Manual

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User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1

Chapter 1

Switch Fabric

In Fabric mode 1, the switching fabric provides a 16x16 crossbar with 56.32
Gbps aggregate bandwidth. In Fabric mode 2, the switching fabric provides
a 33x33 crossbar with 139.392 Gbps aggregate bandwidth.

The crossbar switch matrix provides low latency, high throughput packet
switching using a crossbar architecture.

The Avaya P882 Multiservice switch chassis crossbar supports:

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33 fabric ports (two per I/O module slot, plus one for the supervisor
module - Fabric mode 2).

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1.76 Gb/s (in and out) on each fabric port in Fabric mode 1 and 2.11
Gb/s (in and out) on each fabric port
in Fabric mode 2.

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56.32 Gb/s backplane capacity in Fabric mode 1 and 139.392 Gb/s
backplane capacity in Fabric mode 2.

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Under-subscribed switching fabric in most configurations.

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Single copy replication—Input frames destined for multiple output
switch ports pass through the crossbar only once and are copied by
the crossbar to each destination.

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Hardware-assisted multicast pruning—The switch only forwards to
appropriate destination switch ports

The Power System

Overview

Two power supplies are required to operate a fully-loaded P580 or P882
chassis. You can install a third power supply for backup if one of the other
two fails.

Features of the power system include:

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Load sharing by the installed power supplies.

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Power supplies can be warm swapped. (Before removing a power
supply, you must turn it off and unplug it; however, the other power
supplies can remain turned on).

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Both AC and DC power supplies are supported.

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Static power allocation or dynamic power allocation if insufficient
power is available for all modules in the chassis.

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