Nortel Passport 6480 NTJS60BAS Multiservice Edge Switch w/CP HSSI DSIM DS3A

Nortel Passport 6480 NTJS60BAS Multiservice Edge Switch w/CP HSSI DSIM DS3A Cards

The Nortel Passport 6480 is a chassis-based multiservice edge switch from Nortel's Magellan Passport product line, designed for carrier and enterprise WAN edge applications. This system is offered as a complete, populated chassis including the main control processor cards, WAN interface cards, power supplies, cooling unit, and front panels — as detailed in the component list below.

Specifications & What's Included

• Chassis: NTJS60BAS-01 — Nortel Passport 6480 main chassis (qty 1)
• Power Supply: NTBP09BA-07 (qty 3)
• Cooling Unit: NTBP07AA-01 (qty 1) — dual-fan cooling tray
• Balanced Panel: NTFP10BA — DS1/E1 Balanced Panel with DB-25 connectors (qty 2)
• Sparing Panel: NTFP99AB-02 — DS2/E3 3-Channel Sparing Panel with dual DB-15 connectors (qty 1)
• CP Card: NTFN33GA-05 — Control Processor card (qty 2)
• HSSI Card: NTNQ27AA-04 — High-Speed Serial Interface card (qty 1)
• DSIM Card: NTNQ85AA-09 — DS Interface Module card (qty 2)
• DS3A Card: NTFP18IA-02 — DS3 interface card (qty 2)
• Slot Cover: NNTM423F6919 (qty 9)
• Power Requirements: 100-120V / 200-240V AC, 3x10/5A, 47-63 Hz (from rating plate)
• Interface types: DS1/E1, DS2/E3, DS3, HSSI
• Form Factor: Rack-mount chassis
• Manufactured: September 1999 (per chassis label)
• Country of origin: Canada (Nortel / Northern Telecom)

Applications

The Nortel Magellan Passport product line was Nortel Networks' (formerly Northern Telecom) platform for multiservice wide-area networking, supporting ATM, Frame Relay, and circuit emulation over DS1/E1, DS3, and HSSI interfaces. The Passport 6480 chassis is a mid-to-large scale node within this family, deployed by telecommunications carriers and large enterprise customers in the late 1990s and early 2000s to aggregate and switch WAN traffic at the network edge. The CP (Control Processor) cards provide system management and switching fabric control, while the DS3A and DSIM cards provide physical-layer connectivity to DS3 and DS1/E1 circuits — the building blocks of T-carrier and E-carrier networks used by carriers for inter-office and access connections. The HSSI card supports high-speed serial connections to routers or other WAN equipment. Organizations maintaining legacy Passport-based networks or seeking spare chassis and populated cards for sparing inventory will find this system directly applicable. The Passport 6480 platform dates from the late 1990s Nortel Magellan era, contemporaneous with competitive platforms from Cisco, Lucent, and Fore Systems.