6-8 Cisco BPX 8600 Series Reference
Card Operation
Virtual Interfaces
• VPI/VCI used to identify virtual connection.
• Support for up to 32 virtual interfaces per card, each with 16 CoS queues.
• Virtual Interface parameters:
— Physical port (trunk or access).
— Peak Service Rate (PSR).
— Minimum Service Rate (MSR).
— Maximum resource allocation.
Card Operation
BXM Front Card Indicators
The BXM front panel has a three-section, multi-colored “card” LED to indicate the card status.
A two-port BXM-622, an 8-port BXM-155 front card, and a 12-port BXM-T3/E3 are shown in
Figure 6-2, Figure 6-3, and Figure 6-4. The card status LED is color-coded as indicated in Table 6-3.
A three-section multi-colored “port” LED indicates the status of the ports. Types of failures are
indicated by various combinations of the card status indicators as indicated in Table 6-4.
Table 6-3 BXM Front Panel Status Indicators
Status LED color Status Description
port off Trunk/line is inactive and not carrying data.
green Trunk/line is actively carrying data.
yellow Trunk/line is in remote alarm.
red Trunk/line is in local alarm.
card green (act) Card is on-line and one or more trunks/lines on the card have been upped.
If off, card may be operational but is not carrying traffic.
yellow (stby) Card is off-line and in standby mode (for redundant card pairs). May not
have any upped trunks/lines. If blinking, indicates card firmware or
configuration data is being updated.
red (fail) Card failure; card has failed self-test and/or is in a reset mode.
Table 6-4 BXM Front Panel Card Failure indicators
act stby fail Failure Description
on off on Non-fatal error detected; card is still active.
off on on Non-fatal error detected; card is in standby mode.
off blinking on Fatal error detected; card is in a reboot mode.
on on on Card failed boot load and operation is halted.
