Nortel Passport 6480 NTJS61BA Chassis -48V/-60V 3x22A 3x850W Card Cage Telecom

Nortel Passport 6480 NTJS61BA Chassis -48V/-60V 3x22A 3x850W Card Cage Telecom

The Nortel Passport 6480 NTJS61BA is a multi-slot card cage chassis from Nortel's Passport 6480 switching platform. It provides the physical housing, backplane connectivity, and power distribution infrastructure for Passport 6480 line cards and modules. This chassis is the foundation of the Passport 6480 system — line cards slot into the card guide rails and connect to the backplane, while power supply modules seat into the three dedicated lower bays to supply -48V/-60V DC power to the installed cards.

Specifications & What's Included

• Manufacturer: Nortel (Northern Telecom)
• Product Family: Passport 6480
• Model / MPN: NTJS61BA
• Hardware Revision: 02
• Input Voltage: -48V / -60V DC
• Current Rating: 3 x 22A
• Power Rating: 3 x 850W
• Power Supply Slots: 3 (labeled Power Supply 1, Power Supply 2, Power Supply 3)
• Card cage: multi-slot backplane with card guide rails spanning full cage width (approximately 14 card slots visible)
• Form Factor: Rack-mount chassis / card cage
• Country of Manufacture: Canada
• Certifications: UL Listed (File LR56793, 94M7 I.T.E.), CE (E 00 90 0236), VDE, GS
• Standards: IEC Publication 950, NS/2334/1/R/604560
• International Regulatory Approvals: BAD (Germany), BZT (T98-6017-0 / Z98-9999-9), BAKOM Switzerland (05.225.J.N), AGREL, Telestyrelsen (DK96501931), Ireland DOC (17494), NL (94SD0024)
• Includes: Chassis only — no line cards or power supply modules

Applications

The Nortel Passport 6480 was a carrier-grade ATM/IP switching platform deployed primarily in the late 1990s and early 2000s in telecommunications networks, enterprise WAN backbones, and service provider edge and core environments. The Passport 6480 chassis serves as the central physical infrastructure of the system: line cards providing ATM, Frame Relay, and IP interfaces slot directly into the backplane, while redundant power supply modules in the three lower bays deliver -48V DC power — the standard negative-supply voltage used throughout telecom central office and carrier equipment. This chassis is used in legacy Nortel Passport 6480 deployments being maintained or expanded, spare-parts inventories at carriers and CLECs, and systems integrators rebuilding or refurbishing Passport 6480-based platforms. It is also sought for lab and test environments where Passport 6480 infrastructure is reproduced for network training or interoperability testing.