
Egate-100 Ver. 4.0 Overview 1-1
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Overview
Egate-100 is a Gigabit Ethernet over TDM aggregation gateway that combines
Ethernet traffic carried over PDH (E1/T1) into a Gigabit Ethernet MAN
(Metropolitan Area Network). Egate-100 can aggregate up to 126 remote LANs
over fractional E1/T1 or up to 42 links using standard bonding protocols.
The unit features next-generation Ethernet over PDH encapsulation and bonding
capabilities with support for standard protocols such as generic framing
procedure (GFP), virtual concatenation (VCAT), and link capacity adjustment
scheme (LCAS). The GFP, VCAT, and LCAS protocols allow service providers to
dynamically allocate bandwidth to their customers. By incorporating these
enhanced capabilities, Egate-100 enables higher user throughput, and offers the
following benefits:
• Allows users to fully utilize their contracted bandwidth by ensuring low and
constant traffic overhead
• Minimizes service disruptions in cases of link failures via hitless traffic
restoration
• Enables high service resiliency for real-time applications by dramatically
reducing delays on the TDM connections
• Ensures robust traffic delivery with automatic error correction and minimal
packet retransmissions
• Enhances Ethernet over NG-PDH capabilities by supporting multiple NTUs in
up to 42 remote locations.
Full Layer 2 switching (bridge) between the Ethernet segments beyond the SDH
and Gigabit Ethernet networks is provisioned. The bridge supports VLAN-aware
and VLAN-unaware bridging modes, and can be used for VLAN-based Layer 2
VPNs.
Egate-100 also supports flow classification and policing for network ingress
traffic. Classification is supported per port that enables packet identifiers such as
VID, p-bit, DSCP and IP-precedence.
The unit includes two electrical or optical Gigabit Ethernet ports and, depending
on the interface option ordered, either a dual port to the SDH/SONET network or
three channelized T3 ports. The Gigabit Ethernet ports support link aggregation
according to IEEE 802.3ad requirements. The dual SDH/SONET ports support
unidirectional APS or 1+1 optimized bidirectional mode, as per ITU G.841 Annex B.
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