NSE-8G™ Standard Product Data Sheet
Preliminary
2 Applications
The PM8621 Narrowband Switch Element 8G (NSE-8G) supports a variety of flexible Layer
1/Layer 2 architectures in combination with the following PMC-Sierra devices:
• PM8610 SBS and PM8611 SBS-lite (SBI Serializer and Memory switching stage).
• SBI bus devices (TEMUX™/TEMAP, FREEDM devices, S/UNI®-IMA devices,
AAL1gator™ devices and other future devices).
• CHESS™ chip set devices (PM5374 TSE, PM5307 TBS, PM5315 SPECTRA™-2488, and
PM7390 S/UNI®-MACH48).
These architectures include:
• T1/E1 SONET ADMs.
• TDM ASAP applications.
• PHY cards with DS0 (and above) level switching.
• PSTN replacement switching cores, as part of any-service-any-port applications, and
• Voice Gateways.
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Document ID: PMC-2010850, Issue 1