Switching exam

2001-02-11 Thread Fears Michael S SSgt 18 CS/SCBT
I'm taking the switching exam soon. I've read the BCMSN courseware book and have lots of hands-on experience. However, I have not done any multicast configurations in the real world. Is multicasting hit pretty hard on the exam? Anyone have any good references for the subject? Thanks, Fears __

RE: How does one decipher switch back plane numers....

2001-02-11 Thread Fears Michael S SSgt 18 CS/SCBT
Q) How do they come up with this figure? Really what this is in reference to is the switching fabric. Many times you hear it reffered to as backplane capacity. The switching fabric is the shared highway that all bits traverse to get from one port to the next. The size of the switching fabric is d

ATM ADSL question

2001-02-11 Thread Fears Michael S SSgt 18 CS/SCBT
We recently purchased an Avidia 8000 to support ADSL requirements. At the time of purchase, our company could not afford on-site installation costs, so here I am stuck with figuring out how to make this thing talk. The package consists of 1 chassis, 1 management module, 1 OC-3 SONET line card, a