NV8500 family Digital Routers • User’s Guide 7
1. Introduction
Signal Rates and Flow
Figure 1-3. Example of NV8576 Outputs Signal Flow (Front View)
Expandable Routers
Expandable routers in the NV8500 family (NV8280-Plus and NV8576-Plus) can be used as a stan-
dalone router or connected to an identical router to increase the switching matrix. The signal flow
of inputs and outputs in an expandable router is identical to a standalone router, with one exception:
signals are being received from or distributed to a connected router. When two expandable routers
are connected, signals from one router are distributed to the second connected router, and vice
versa, through expansion connections and expansion output cards. Each output only goes through a
crosspoint card once. Before an output is forwarded to a connected router, it first goes through the
crosspoint card on the local router for switching to the expansion connections through which it is
FAN
OUTPUTS
1144
INPUTS
1144
XPT (INPUTS 1288)
INPUT MONITOR
(8 cards)
OUTPUTS
289 432
(8 cards)
OUTPUTS
577720
(8 cards)
OUTPUTS
8651008
(8 cards)
OUTPUT MONITOR
(16 cards)
INPUTS
289 432
(16 cards)
OUTPUTS 1576 OUTPUTS 5771152
OUTPUTS
145 288
(8 cards)
INPUTS
145 288
(16 cards)
INPUTS
433 576
(16 cards)
(not used)
FAN
OUTPUTS
433 576
(8 cards)
OUTPUTS
721864
(8 cards)
OUTPUTS
100 9 1152
(8 cards)
INPUT MONITOR
OUTPUT MONITOR
SEC. CONTROL
PRIM. CONTROL
XPT (INPUTS 1288)
XPT (INPUTS 289576)
XPT (INPUTS 289576)
XPT (INPUTS 1288)
XPT (INPUTS 1288)
XPT (INPUTS 289576)
XPT (INPUTS 289576)
REDUNDANT CROSSPOINT