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• Example: Physical Interface Configuration Statements for Serial Interfaces
• Configuring the Serial Line Protocol
• Configuring the Serial Clocking Mode
• Configuring the Serial Idle Cycle Flag
• Configuring the Serial Signal Handling
• Configuring the Serial DTR Circuit
• Configuring Serial Signal Polarities
• Configuring Serial Loopback Capability
• Configuring Serial Line Encoding

Serial Interfaces Overview

Devices that communicate over a serial interface are divided into two classes: data terminal equipment (DTE) and data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE). Juniper Networks Serial Physical Interface Cards (PICs) have two ports per PIC and support full-duplex data transmission. These PICs support DTE mode only. On the Serial PIC, you can configure three types of serial interfaces:

• EIA-530—An Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA) standard for the interconnection of DTE and DCE using serial binary data interchange with control information exchanged on separate control circuits.
• V.35—An ITU-T standard describing a synchronous, physical layer protocol used for communications between a network access device and a packet network. V.35 is most commonly used in the United States and in Europe.
• X.21—An ITU-T standard for serial communications over synchronous digital lines. The X.21 protocol is used primarily in Europe and Japan.

The following standards apply to serial interfaces:

• TIA/EIA Standard 530, High-Speed 25-Position Interface for Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment, defines the signals on the cable and specifies the connector at the end of the cable.
• TIA/EIA Standard 232, Interface between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment Employing Serial Binary Data Interchange, describes the physical interface and protocol for serial data communication.
• ITU-T Recommendation V.35, Data Transmission at 48 kbit/s Using 60-108 kHz Group Band Circuits. Note that the Juniper Networks Serial PIC supports V.35 interfaces with speeds higher than 48 kilobits per second.
• ITU-T Recommendation X.21, Interface Between Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment for Synchronous Operation on Public Data Networks.

There are no serial interface-specific logical properties. For information about general logical properties that you can configure, see Configuring Logical Interface Properties. On J Series routers, link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) and Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (MLPPP) support has been extended to serial interfaces. This support on serial interfaces is the same as the existing LFI and MLPPP support on T1 and E1 interfaces.