Overview: As a key member of veecom metroedge-express sdh/mspp product family, dhodt-lmxe is a carrier-class, cost-effective, compact (only 3u high) stm-1/stm-4/stm-16 sdh/mspp platform that is designed for applications in metro and access networks to facilitate the efficient transport of traditional tdm and emerging data traffic for service providers. Dhodt-lmxe is a card based compact sdh equipment, designed mainly as a gateway node between the core sdh network and a number of remote cpe boxes. It may also be used as a multi service sdh adm node in a typical ring or mash network. The 3ru high 19 inch wide chassis of the dhodt-lmxe has 19 cards positions, with 2 slots for the 1+1 power cards, 1 slot for network management card, 2 slots for network interface unit(niu) cards, and 14 slots for local interface unit(liu) cards. Features: *support up to stm-1/stm-4/stm-16 *large cross-connect matrix capacity is 96*96 high order vc-4 cross connection or 2016*2016 vc-12 or 96*96 vc-3 level full cross connection *support 1+1 msp, sncp protection *management channel can be dcc/e1/vc12 *clocking mode supports: internal clock / external clock / line clock / clock holdover *ethernet service supporting gfp encapsulation, vc12 virtual concatenation and lcas, p vlan and 801.1q vlan *e1 ber tester is embedded *support up to 110 ethernet over 8*e1 (eopdh or eoe) remote cpes *support up to 756 ethernet over 1*e1 (eopdh or eoe) remote cpes *support up to 110 ethernet over vc-12 (eosdh or eos) remote cpes *online upgrading *full redundancy design Carton.