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Advanced TCA BAckplane Tester

The “Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture” (AdvancedTCA) is a modular standard chassis based system designed to support the needs of carrier class telecommunication applications. It is defined by a set of industry standards under the direction of the PICMG group. One early deployment of the stand...

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Autores principales: Oltean, Alexandra Dana, Martin, Brian Robert
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2005
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/847210
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author Oltean, Alexandra Dana
Martin, Brian Robert
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Martin, Brian Robert
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description The “Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture” (AdvancedTCA) is a modular standard chassis based system designed to support the needs of carrier class telecommunication applications. It is defined by a set of industry standards under the direction of the PICMG group. One early deployment of the standard technology has been a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch developed in the framework of the EU funded ESTA project. In order to study the practical aspects of high speed Ethernet switching at 10 Gigabit and above and to validate the signal integrity of the AdvancedTCA backplane, we developed a Backplane Tester. This system is able to run pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) traffic at 3.125 Gbps over every link on the AdvancedTCA backplane simultaneously, and to monitor any possible connectivity failure immediately in terms of the link and slot positions inside the chassis. In this paper, we describe the design and the practical architectural hardware and software aspects of the AdvancedTCA Backplane Tester. We also present the results of Bit-Error Rate (BER) test measurements performed with our Tester on a fully populated 10 Gigabit traffic AdvancedTCA Backplane.
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spelling cern-8472102019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/847210engOltean, Alexandra DanaMartin, Brian RobertAdvanced TCA BAckplane TesterEngineeringThe “Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture” (AdvancedTCA) is a modular standard chassis based system designed to support the needs of carrier class telecommunication applications. It is defined by a set of industry standards under the direction of the PICMG group. One early deployment of the standard technology has been a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch developed in the framework of the EU funded ESTA project. In order to study the practical aspects of high speed Ethernet switching at 10 Gigabit and above and to validate the signal integrity of the AdvancedTCA backplane, we developed a Backplane Tester. This system is able to run pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) traffic at 3.125 Gbps over every link on the AdvancedTCA backplane simultaneously, and to monitor any possible connectivity failure immediately in terms of the link and slot positions inside the chassis. In this paper, we describe the design and the practical architectural hardware and software aspects of the AdvancedTCA Backplane Tester. We also present the results of Bit-Error Rate (BER) test measurements performed with our Tester on a fully populated 10 Gigabit traffic AdvancedTCA Backplane.CERN-OPEN-2005-014oai:cds.cern.ch:8472102005-05-23
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Oltean, Alexandra Dana
Martin, Brian Robert
Advanced TCA BAckplane Tester
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topic Engineering
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/847210
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