D.TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS – ESC – Router/Switch
1.Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of eight Gigabit Ethernet Ports.
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2.Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of twenty 10/100 Ethernet ports.
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3.Equipment proposed for ESC must utilize full Layer 3 routing functionality.
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4.Equipment proposed for ESC must use ASICs or processors on the port cards to handle switching and some routing without relying on a centralized processor for all routing functions.
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5.Equipment proposed for ESC must have redundant power supplies that are load balancing and hot swappable.
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6.Equipment proposed for ESC must have hot swappable interface cards so that the box does not have to be re-booted when a card is replaced.
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7.Equipment proposed for ESC must support redundant processors.
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8.Equipment proposed for ESC must support: TCP/IP, Apple Talk, DVMRP,
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9.Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of 4096 VLANs.
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10.Multicast packets must not be flooded to all cards on the equipment at the ESC.
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11.Multicast packets must be routed from the processor on the card across the switching fabric to appropriate cards/ports without intervention by the main routing CPU.
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12.QOS 802.1p tagging must be supported by the equipment at the ESC.
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13.QOS must be supported to the VLANs and Ports across the network.
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14.Spanning Tree must be supported along with 802.1 W for faster recovery.
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15.Equipment configuration proposed for ESC must be non-blocking, i.e., a Gigabit port must have a Gigabit of bandwidth on the backplane/switching fabric available at all times.
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16.Equipment proposed for ESC must use GBIC optics that are changeable without removing the port card.
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17.Equipment proposed for ESC requires LX optics, up to 20 Kilometers.
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18.These standards must be supported in the proposed ESC Equipment:
IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.1z, Telnet, SNMP MIB II, SNMP MIB II interfaces, RMON II.
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19.Equipment proposed must be FCC Part 15 approved, Class A approved
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20.Equipment proposed must support QOS using TOS bits.
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E.TECHNCIAL REQUIREMENTS – ESC – VOICE EQUIPMENT
1.Voice transmission equipment must be able to encapsulate four T-1s and transmit them to a similar unit at a single remote site or four different sites for de-encapsulation.
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2.All signaling coming from the PBX on the T-1 circuit must be transmitted to the PBX at the remote site without error.
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3.No compression is allowed.
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4.Redundant power supplies are required.
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5.Connection(s) to the BPX must utilize a balanced, 100 Ohm, RJ-45, 8 pin UTP T-1 port.
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6.Connection to the network must utilize a 10/100 Ethernet, RJ-45 8 pin, UTP port.
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7.Proposed equipment must use 100V to 125V input power.
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8.Proposed equipment must be 19” rack mountable.
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9.Equipment proposed must be FCC Part 15 approved, Class A approved
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10. Proposed equipment must support the following T-1 standards:
AT&T TR-62411, ITU-T Rec, G.703, G.704, ANSI T1.403
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11.The proposed equipment must support unframed, Super-Frame and Extended Super-Frame framing.
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12.Proposed equipment must support, AMI and B8ZS line coding.
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13.Proposed equipment must support 1.544 data rate on all T-1 ports simultaneously.
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14.Proposed equipment jitter performance must be per AT&T TR-62411.
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15.Proposed equipment must support SNMP MIB II.
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16.Proposed equipment must support TELNET for management.
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17.T-1 timing must be passed from the PBX at the ESC across the network to the Voice equipment and PBX located at the remote sites.
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18.An SNMP based network management system for this equipment must be provided.
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F.TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS – Remote Site Switches
1.Equipment proposed must use 100 V to 125V input power.
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2.Equipment proposed must have a minimum of 16 Gbps ports.
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3.Gbps ports must utilize GBIC Optics that are swappable without removing the interface card.
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4.Proposed Equipment must be 19” rack mountable.
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5.Equipment proposed must be FCC Part 15 approved, Class A approved.
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6.Remote site equipment proposed must support the following standards:
IEEE802.3ad, 802.3u, 802.3z, 802.1D, 802.1p, 802.1Q, SNMP MIB II
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7.Remote site equipment must support 60 802.1p tagged VLANs.
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8.All VLAN tagging must be supported from the ESC equipment all the way through to the remote site equipment down to the ports in the classroom.
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9.Remote site equipment must support multiple VLANs on each port.
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10.Remote site equipment must support multiple ports in the same piece of equipment for each VLAN.
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11.Remote site equipment must support multiple ports on each piece of equipment located at a given site for each VLAN.
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12. QOS tagging attached to the VLAN must be supported.
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13.QOS tagging attached to a port must be supported.
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14.Proposed remote equipment must support Spanning Tree and 802.1W.
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15.Re-connection of a remote site when a break in the fiber optic cable occurs must be a maximum of 4 seconds. This is with eight devices on the ring network.
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