Technical Requirements ESC Router/Switch

Technical requirements – ESC – Router/Switch

Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of eight Gigabit Ethernet Ports.

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Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of twenty 10/100 Ethernet ports.

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Equipment proposed for ESC must utilize full Layer 3 routing functionality.

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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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Equipment proposed for ESC must have redundant power supplies that are load balancing and hot swappable.

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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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Equipment proposed for ESC must support redundant processors.

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Equipment proposed for ESC must support TCP/IP, Apple Talk, DVMRP.

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Equipment proposed for ESC must support a minimum of 4096 VLANs.

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Multicast packets must not be flooded to all cards on the equipment at the ESC.

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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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QOS 802.1p tagging must be supported by the equipment at the ESC.

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QOS must be supported to the VLANs and Ports across the network.

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Spanning Tree must be supported along with 802.1 W for faster recovery.

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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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Equipment proposed for ESC must use GBIC optics that are changeable without removing the port card.

Yes ____ No ____

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Equipment proposed for ESC requires LX optics, up to 20 Kilometers.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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5.Connection(s) to the BPX must utilize a balanced, 100 Ohm, RJ-45, 8 pin UTP T-1 port.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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16.Proposed equipment must support TELNET for management.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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18.An SNMP based network management system for this equipment must be provided.

Yes ____ No ____

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F.TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS – Remote Site Switches

1.Equipment proposed must use 100 V to 125V input power.

Yes ____ No ____

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2.Equipment proposed must have a minimum of 16 Gbps ports.

Yes ____ No ____

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3.Gbps ports must utilize GBIC Optics that are swappable without removing the interface card.

Yes ____ No ____

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4.Proposed Equipment must be 19” rack mountable.

Yes ____ No ____

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5.Equipment proposed must be FCC Part 15 approved, Class A approved.

Yes ____ No ____

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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

Yes ____ No ____

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7.Remote site equipment must support 60 802.1p tagged VLANs.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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9.Remote site equipment must support multiple VLANs on each port.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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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.

Yes ____ No ____

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