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MPS1000 PRODUCT SHEET
Multi-Protocol Communications Server – Overview
F E AT U R E S
Up to 16 High-Speed WAN Ports
Two 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
Ports
Based on Dual Freescale
MPC8255 PowerQUICC® II
Processors
128 MB of Shared DRAM
Memory
Multicast Support
SNMP Support
The MPS1000 is a family of WAN/LAN data
communications servers that are attached to
a local area network to provide wide-area
connectivity. A single MPS1000 communications server can support a number of WAN
protocols, each of which can be accessed
simultaneously by multiple clients. The
MPS1000 provides two 10/100 Ethernet ports
and has options for 4, 8, or 16 high-speed
WAN serial ports. This makes the MPS1000 an
ideal and intelligent WAN/LAN bridge, a
WAN/LAN gateway device, or a remote WAN
connectivity server. By using the MPS1000 as
an SNMP management device, any computer
and/or workstation equipped with TCP/IP on
the LAN can access information from the
communications server.
The MPS1000 is designed to preserve the
user’s software investment by enabling
applications to be moved to any of PT’s WAN
products. Its modular design supports
virtually any serial communications protocol.
NexusWare® Software Support
With a well-defined application programming
interface (API), PT’s integrated protocol suite
reduces time-to-market by eliminating
unnecessary development time at the
hardware/protocol level. The protocols for
the standard WAN hardware products enable
development engineers to proceed directly to
integration and application development
efforts.
PT’s comprehensive suite of NexusWare®
WAN communications protocols provides
complete WAN connectivity solutions for
Radar Receiver/SBSI, Frame Relay, HDLC,
LAPD, and X.25 protocols. Operating system
support includes Solaris™, Windows®, and
Linux®.
Hardware Features
The MPS1000 is designed as a fully programmable communications system capable of
sustaining high data rates for the variety of
protocols used in synchronous communications.
The MPS1000 utilizes dual Freescale MPC8255
PowerQUICC® II communications microprocessors. One of the processors is configured
as the master, while the other is configured as
the slave. The default mode of operation uses
the slave processor with its CPU core disabled,
leaving the CPM active for serial communication.
Two external Ethernet PHYs are offered to
provide Ethernet redundancy. The MPS1000
will automatically switch over to the secondary
Ethernet PHY if a link is lost on the primary PHY.
The 16 port model of the MPS1000 supports
up to 16 identical, individually program-mable,
synchronous serial I/O ports while the 8 port
model supports 8 ports. The ports are capable of
electrically interfacing to V.35, RS-530, RS-449,
and RS-232 equipment. Each port on the 8 and
16 port models is brought out in groups of four
to an 80-pin connector that supports PT’s quadconnection Hydra line of serial I/O cables.
The 4 port model of the MPS1000 supports
four identical, individually programmable,
synchronous serial I/O ports. The ports are
capable of interfacing to EIA-530 (RS-422) and
RS-232 equipment. Each port is brought out via
a DB 25 pin connector.