[c-nsp] BITS interface on ME-3600X

[Daniel Verlouw]

Hi,

On Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Martin T wrote: 
> In which scenario would somebody want to use ME-3600X for
> providing this clock signal? In addition, why would one want to receive
> E1/T1 timing signal on an Ethernet switch?

the switch needs a reference clock source to provide SyncE (an ethernet based frequency synchronization signal) to downlink (1GE) ports. The reference clock can be recovered from either a BITS clock input (E1/T1) or SyncE uplink ports.

      --Daniel (your colleague :P)